The University of Turku among the Top 400 Universities
The University of Turku kept its strong place in the worldwide Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The University of Turku kept its strong place in the worldwide Academic Ranking of World Universities.
On his lecture at the Aboagora symposium in Turku, Greenaway declared that cinema is dead, as films concentrate more on the text than the image. To revive the art form, he demanded that cinema has to give up excessive textuality as well as the conventional screen and embrace new technology.
Director Peter Greenaway gave a lecture on the death of cinema on Thursday at the Sibelius Museum.
The Falling Walls Lab, which was organised in Finland for the first time, presented young researchers’ solutions to the challenges of our time.
The Falling Walls Lab Turku competition, where young researchers have three minutes to present their work onstage, is open to the public. Three most intriguing presenters will win a place in the international Falling Walls Lab final which will take place in Berlin in November. The Lab is organised in Finland and the Nordic countries for the first time as a part of the three-day Aboagora symposium.
Professor Don Gotternbarn urged those developers who work in ICT to think about how each new invention changes the world. Gotternbarn, who spoke at the international Human Choice and Computers conference at the University of Turku, reminded that the need and skill to create new innovations are not enough. – Ethics must also extend to the consequences, said the professor.
The national Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study shows that substantial TV watching predisposes for obesity and not the other way around. Among those who watch a substantial amount of TV, weight gain can even double compared with those who watch less TV.
The offspring of salmon populations which have grown up in cold waters seem to be able to acclimatise to warm waters as well. An international research group discovered that salmon populations from northern Norway can live also in 20 °C water. The results were published in the esteemed Nature Communications scientific journal.
Researcher of Animal Physiology Katja Anttila.
Turku School of Economics’ magazine introduces the community and expertise of the School.
The Rector of the University of Turku has appointed the Professor of Bacteriology Pentti Huovinen as the new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.