In his speech at the Opening Ceremony of the University of Turku on 4 September, Rector Väänänen stressed closer collaboration between the universities, internationalisation and equal treatment of the different university institutions.
Synthetic biology is making a name for itself all over the world and is now coming to Finland as well. The Living Factories project, a joint endeavour of VTT, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, is the forerunner in the field in Finland and it received nearly 4 million euro funding from Tekes.
Researchers from the University of Turku have genetically engineered microbes to produce renewable propane for the first time. Their study was published this week in Nature Communications. Propane is a major component of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) with an existing global market for a wide number of applications.
The orientation for the new exchange students started on Wednesday, 28 August 2014. Over three hundred students from about 40 countries started their studies in the University of Turku this autumn term.
About fifteen rectors and vice rectors from the Baltic Sea region gathered at the University of Tartu on Monday, 25 August 2014, to discuss and exchange experiences on university and funding reforms as well as cooperation.
Rector Kalervo Väänänen at the University of Tartu's Rectors' Roundtable.
There is a map of Tanzania on the computer screen. Zahor K Zahor already utilizes the information on the map in an expert manner. At the University of Dar es Salaam, he used geographical information that was collected with the help of the locals in his doctoral thesis which was supervised by Senior Lecturer in Geography Niina Käyhkö of the University of Turku.
The Elias Tillandz prize 2013 was awarded to the two best scientific publications of 2013 by the researchers at BioCity Turku.
Paper “Dividend policy in Nordic listed firms” by Tor Brunzell (Stockholm University), Eva Liljeblom (Hanken School of Economics), Anders Löflund (Hanken School of Economics) and Mika Vaihekoski has been published in the Global Finance Journal (2014).
The next Accounting and Finance Research Seminar is held on Thursday 21 August 2014, at 10:15 am in room KH2-Säätiö. Joonas Hämäläinen (Turku School of Economics) will present his paper: Predictable Returns and Portfolio Optimization: Less Information Can Be Better. Welcome to the Seminar! Jan Pfister