The summer attractions of the University cover a variety of different topics. This year's novelties are guided art tours and a tropical animal exhibition at the Zoological Museum. I you want travel, you can visit Seili or Kevo.
Last year, the Art Tour was held for the first time on the Night of Arts. This summer, everyone has the opportunity to participate in the guided tour.
An experimental study with size-selectively harvested zebrafish that began in 2006 at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany reveals that size-selective harvesting causes changes in key life-history traits, leading to low maximum body size and poor reproductive output.
The University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Novia University of Applied Sciences, Diaconia University of Applied Sciences and HUMAK University of Applied Sciences have signed a partnership agreement.
The Personalised Health research project received 10 million euro in funding from the Academy of Finland. Of that, almost two million go towards research in the University of Turku.
The expert panels of the Academy of Finland have selected the new Academy projects, research fellows and postdoctoral researchers during spring.
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The University of Turku and Fudan University will begin planning their joint education in nursing science and information technology. Their aim is to collaborate in both education and research, as well as in the resulting innovation activities.
Xylitol is by far the most famous product created at the University of Turku. The xylitol research, which started in 1969, culminated in an observation that surprised everyone. – We started to research whether xylitol is harmful to teeth, but we discovered that it can even ameliorate caries, says Professor Emeritus Kauko K. Mäkinen.
Kauko K. Mäkinen presents the structure of xylitol. The light hydrogen atom and the red oxygen atom surround the zigzag carbon structure.
The University's research projects in drug development, diagnostics and imaging, and education and learning were at the forefront in the application round for the profiling funding.
The Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees of all the faculties of the University of Turku was organised on 28–30 May. 12 Honorary Doctors and 110 doctors were conferred in the Ceremony.
Riitta Lahesmaa and Virpi Lummaa start their five-year academy professorship at the beginning of 2016.
Riitta Lahesmaa, who was appointed to the post of an academy professor, is the director of Turku Centre for Biotechnology and leads a research group in Turku, which is part of the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in molecular systems immunology and physiology.