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Doctors and Honorary Doctors are conferred on the threshold of summer in the University of Turku.

Altogether, 182 doctors graduated from the University of Turku in the year 2012. Also, the number of completed Bachelor´s and Master`s degrees was increased.

The Finnish Union of University Professors has selected Plant Biology Professor Eva-Maria Aro from the University of Turku as the professor of the year. Aro leads a Centre of Exellence in Integrative Photosynthesis and Bioactive Compound Research at Systems Biology Level.

A versatile research project of the University of Turku highlights the world that is usually left outside the science. Internationally rare research received significant funding from the Academy of Finland.

​Previously, separate subjects have studied otherness like angels and the presence of the dead, but the research project in question studies the subject in a unique way by combining accomplishments and methods of different areas of science.  ​

Females can recognize a male with good genes even though it loses a battle of display. A research of Doctoral Candidate Mari Pölkki and Academy Researcher Markus Rantala from the Section of Ecology, University of Turku, showed that a male, that anticipated its own death, could win the battle of display. Nevertheless, females would not mate with it.

​Researchers used agressive field crickets in the experiment.​​

This year, the money that was reserved for planning, printing and posting the Christmas cards of the University of Turku went to a good cause – for the children of the world.

Scientists have identified four new genetic regions that influence birth weight. Experts of the University of Turku have been part of the international collaboration project.

The Faculty of Education took part in the international SciTech Europe event in Brussels. The faculty’s stand was busy, and the Masterclass lecture on Finnish education and education research gathered a record audience.

​At the SciTech event. From the left: the Dean, Professor Marja Vauras, Researcher Johanna Kallo and Academy Professor Erno Lehtinen. ​​

The Economic crisis is not over, but the EU is here to stay, says Vice-President of the European Commission Olli Rehn in the wholly packed Tauno Nurmela –lecture hall.

Massive stars die young and explode as bright supernovae. Astronomers can use these explosions to study how fast galaxies made stars earlier in the Universe's history.

​Figure:The galaxy Arp 299 with some of its "hidden" supernovae marked (Image: Gemini Observatory / AURA / Dr Angel R. López-Sánchez (AAO)​