At the 97th Anniversary Celebration of the University on 28 February, Rector Kalervo Väänänen spoke about the history of Finnish education.
Four students from the Rauma unit of the Department of Teacher Education travelled to India for two weeks. They returned with versatile research material and gained many new experiences.
Student Anna Hohtamäki showed the distance between Finland and India on a map to six-year-old first-grade students at a school in Nankari, India. Students Akshita Rastogi and Debangana Roy from IIT Kanpur interpreted to Hindi.
The new animal species discovered by the researchers of the Biodiversity Unit at the University of Turku have attracted worldwide attention and interest. In 2015 and 2016, the researchers formally described, for example, the Rattus detentus rat, the Clistopyga caramba wasp, the Varanus semotus monitor lizard and a wasp that felts spider silk. The new and unique species have quickly become some of the most discussed new animal discoveries in international media and popular blogs.
– It is such a great feeling when I get the chance to talk to Finnish people, Ezter Ujvari from Hungary describes her experiences after reading a cook book in plain language to Sirkka Katajisto at Ruusukortteli assisted living residence. They were brought together by the national Minä luen sinulle (I read to you) campaign week that encouraged the students of the Finnish language at the Language Centre of the University of Turku to read and talk to elderly people and the mentally disabled.
The Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine of the University of Turku is hiring five postdoctoral researchers and four senior researchers. The Turku Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Turku is hiring five postdoctoral researchers and a director for a three-year period.
Period for applying for a right to study for doctoral degree in the Faculty of Medicine is March 1 – 20, 2017. The right to study begins on August 1, 2017.
The University of Turku confers 12 honorary doctors in the Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees that is organised in May. They will be conferred as honorary doctors either for their scientific merits, collaboration with the University of Turku or because of their impact on society.
