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Photo Galleries from Graduation Ceremonies Are Now Available

13.02.2018

Photos from the Master’s degree graduation ceremonies of the Faculties of Law, Humanities, and Science and Engineering as well as Turku School of Economics are now available for download in the University’s Media Bank.

​The Master’s degree graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Science and Engineering in December 2017.

Better Soil Maps Needed to Map Plant Species Distributions in Amazonia

06.02.2018

An international research team has shown that the modelling of species distributions in Amazonia requires information not only of climate but also of soils. At the same time, they found considerable inaccuracies and other problems in the available soil maps. For conservation planning, it is important to obtain reliable information on where and how widely different species are distributed in Amazonia.

New Landform Discovered from the Depths of Finnish Forest

18.01.2018

Scientists have been familiar with Finnish landforms for decades. Now, however, researchers from the University of Turku have discovered a new landform previously unknown to science with the aid of laser technology. After the initial discovery in Finland, similar forms have also been found in Sweden.

Finnish Researchers Discover What Is on the Menu for Dragonflies

03.10.2017

Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland, are the first in the world to discover which species adult dragonflies and damselflies prey upon, as modern laboratory techniques enabled the study of the insects’ diet. In the study, prey DNA was extracted from the tiny dragonfly droppings and the researchers managed to identify dozens of prey species from the samples. The results shed light on dragonflies’ position in natural food webs with an unprecedented specificity.

University of Turku Employs Nearly 50 New Doctoral Candidates

01.09.2017

There are nearly fifty open vacancies for fixed-term doctoral candidate positions at the University of Turku from 1 January 2018 onwards. The call for applications is open 1–20 September and positions are open to all the 16 doctoral programmes.

Rye and Barley Contain Beneficial Bioactive Compounds - Beer is a good source

01.08.2017

Like many other cereal grain food products, beer contains several chemical compounds which can be considered as beneficial for our body. In his doctoral dissertation, MSc Juha-Matti Pihlava showed that the chemical diversity of hordatines in barley and barley malt beer is much larger than previously know. He also found that wheat and rye malt beers contain benzoxazinoids, which in other studies have been indicated to have anticarcinogenic properties.

Fern Fossil Data Clarifies Origination and Extinction of Species

06.07.2017

Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones and global biodiversity has varied dramatically over geologic time. A new study led by the University of Turku shows that completely different factors regulate the rise and fall of species.

Tree ferns still occupy the tropical moist forests in Australia, even though they shared their “golden age” with dinosaurs.

Towards Sustainable Utilisation of Space

28.06.2017

The research group of Professor Rami Vainio is developing novel particle instruments and innovative, radiation-tolerant solutions to nano-satellites such as Aalto-1. At the beginning of June, the research group of the University of Turku received an eight-year funding from the Academy of Finland as part of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space (FORESAIL) led by Professor Minna Palmroth (University of Helsinki).

Galaxy Alignments Traced Back Ten Billion Years

13.06.2017

A new study led by Michael West of Lowell Observatory and Roberto De Propris of the University of Turku reveals that the most massive galaxies in the universe have been aligned with their surroundings for at least ten billion years. This discovery shows that galaxies, like people, are influenced by their environment from a young age.