The Centre for East Asian Studies organised a Japanese Speech Event for the first time on Tuesday 28 October. 13 students took part in the competition.
The Ambassador of Japan, Mr. Kenji Shinoda, opened the competition.
– Without the University of Turku, my scientific career would never have continued, says Stefan Hell and ”raises” a glass of champagne via telephone to the crowd gathered in the break room of the Laboratory of Biophysics at the University of Turku.
Stefan Hell published the idea of the Stimulated Emission Depletion, i.e. STED, microscopy for the first time in 1994 when he was working in the University of Turku.
The agreements will support joint research, development and educational projects and promote the researcher, teacher, staff and student mobility.
– Dr. House was purposefully based on Sherlock Holmes, Fulbright researcher Dr. Martha Lee Alexander stated at the beginning of her presentation in the American Voices seminar. The presentation underlined the fact that, in the case both characters, the hero is far from perfect.
In her presentation, Dr. Martha Lee Alexander discussed Dr.House and Sherlock Holmes.
The University of Turku Doctor Honoris Causa Stefan W. Hell is one of the three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the developers of optical microscopes with high resolution at the nanometer scale.
Stefan W. Hell, who worked at the University of Turku as a researcher in the 1990s, was conferred as doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Turku in the spring of 2009.
Codes are like a sealed box with a message inside. The sender and the receiver hold the key to the box. If the key ends up in the hands of a stranger, he or she must figure out how to open the box.
James Grime giving a talk on mathematics for the University of Turku staff and students
As part of their visit to Finland, the Argentinian RAP foundation, Fundación Red de Acción Politica, visited the University of Turku from 30 September to 2 October 2014. The goal of the visit was to learn about the Finnish education system, which has been internationally acknowledged.
On 26 September 2014, the University of Turku working group on language matters chose the Finnish Language Clinic as the University of Turku Language Deed of the Year. The reward is addressed to the Head of the Clinic, Finnish Language and Culture for Foreigners Lecturer Kirsti Siitonen for the work she has done to promote the development of the language environment at the University.
The University of Turku signed student exchange agreements with the universities of Nankai and Tianjin in China. The purpose is to strengthen research and teaching contacts and increase the export of know-how.
The School of History, Culture and Arts Studies of the University of Turku established the Popular Culture Studies Master’s Degree Pathway on Tuesday, 9 September, with This is Popular seminar.
Susanna Paasonen presented the Popular Culture Studies programme.