In 2014, more doctors completed their degree than ever before – altogether 186 doctors graduated. As for the Master’s degrees, it was the second highest number in the history of the University of Turku; higher numbers were achieved only in 2008 which was the year of the degree structure reform.
Doctoral Candidate in Nursing Science Christina Athanasopoulou loves Finland and Turku and wants to kindle the same enthusiasm in others. To do this, she has started a video blog in YouTube called Tina Turku.
Experts of the University of Turku are working in collaboration with the teaching staff of the Vietnamese Hanoi University of Science and Technology and the University of Danang to develop the entrepreneurship education of the institutions.
Turku University Library is renewing its organisation, and, at the same time, the names of the libraries will change.
The area of the largest peatland in the Amazon and its carbon store has been mapped for the first time. The researchers estimated that over three billion tons of carbon is stored within the geological basin which is almost the size of England. According to the research group, by preserving the peatland, large carbon emissions to the atmosphere could be avoided.
StudyPortals International Student Satisfaction Awards 2014 listed the experiences of international students in nearly 50 countries.
Researchers of the University of Turku are working in co-operation with the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), an agriculture university in Molina, Peru, to develop the research and utilisation of the native food plants of the Andes. The university will establish a doctoral programme in food science as well as a centre of excellence which will promote the multidisciplinary research of the native plants and UNALM’s collaboration with the local food companies.
Quantum physicists will try out new methods in solving the mysteries of science. A group of enthusiastic professionals from different disciplines will gather to Tuorla Observatory of the University of Turku, and their mutual aim is to create games which will produce new knowledge. The results will be presented at the Science Café on 14 December, where SF-author Hannu Rajaniemi will also give a presentation.
While monitoring the exceptional supernova SN 2013fc, Doctoral Candidate Tuomas Kangas from the University of Turku serendipitously discovered a new supernova in the same host galaxy.
Tuomas Kangas discovered the new supernova on 17 November 2014 using images taken at the ESO-operated telescope NTT (left). Supernova 2013fc had exploded in the same galaxy in the previous year (right).
Svetlana Samsonova from National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia, has been spending her one-month Erasmus Mundus Aurora staff exchange period in November 2014 working at the International Office at the University of Turku.