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The URV will be part of a nine-country, multi-campus university

The URV will be part of a nine-country, multi-campus university

Almost 800 students, research and staff members who belong to the Aurora Alliance will be able to study and do research in other institutions thanks to the project that has been awarded by the European Commission.

The URV is in the top 501-600 universities in the world

The URV is in the top 501-600 universities in the world

According to the Times Higher Education (THE) and Shanghai (ARWU) rankings, the URV is among the top 600 universities in the world. This position confirms the URV’s excellence and international competitiveness.

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Special Issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports on “Functional Studies of Prehistoric Artefacts and their Socio-economic Meaning” is now online

28/07/2020

An international team of archaeologists compiles recent research on the reconstruction of prehistoric technologies

Overweight and obesity are associated with a low sperm quality

24/07/2020

Is a systematic review and meta-analysis of all the studies published to date. These results suggest that overweight/obesity prevention should be considered at an early age to avoid deleterious effects on reproductive health

Two Stone tools on quartzite from Gran Dolina might proof that human occupation was steady in Atapuerca along 1.4 million years

23/07/2020

Both tools have been found during this field-season at Unit TD08, and they are around 600,000 years old, a time characterized in Europe by a striking scarcity of human presence

Unprecedented 3D reconstruction of pre-Columbian crania from the Caribbean and South America

22/07/2020

The work is published in a scientific article led by Gizéh Rangel-de Lázaro of the Natural History Museum in London and an associated researcher of the IPHES-URV

URV is ranked number one in Spain in the discipline of Chemistry according to the Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

14/07/2020

This is the second year in a row that Chemistry at the URV is among the best 100 universities in the world, being the only in Spain located in the top 100

The Faculty of Chemistry obtains the institutional accreditation

14/07/2020

It is the first center of a Catalan public university to achieve this recognition in the field of Chemistry and Biochemistry

The URV will be part of a nine-country, multi-campus university

09/07/2020

Almost 800 students, research and staff members who belong to the Aurora Alliance will be able to study and do research in other institutions thanks to the project that has just been awarded by the European Commission

An extinct species of large rodent newly discovered in Morocco

08/07/2020

It lived around 2.6 million years ago and was significantly larger than the extant members of the genus Golunda

A new mothed can quickly and effectively detect adulterations of foods made with insects

08/07/2020

The combination of two techniques allows the in-depth analysis of the composition of insect dust which is increasingly sold as a dietary ingredient

New evidence found of the neurotoxic effects of some of the most commonly used pesticides in the world

03/07/2020

URV researchers are taking part in a pioneering study that analyses the behavioural and molecular effects in the short, medium and long term resulting from exposure to chlorpyrifos, which may be related to hyperactivity, autism and addictions

Solar assisted heating networks reduce environmental impact and energy consumption

03/07/2020

These installations centralize large scale heating and the production of hot water. One study led by researchers from the URV has created a diagnostic tool that uses artificial intelligence to demonstrate the feasibility of these systems

Scientists support the use of ultraviolet light to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission indoors

23/06/2020

An international team of researchers advocates the use of UV-C light in indoor spaces as a way to reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 viruses. This solution meets the requirements of fast, scalable, and affordable implementation to fulfill the needs of disinfecting working spaces

Choosing the city, choosing the URV

11/06/2020 Opinion

I had to stay in Tarragona during the confinement because all the flights back to Turkey were cancelled and all the borders were closed

The URV wins for the second time a European project that will enable it to contract 50 predoctoral researchers

11/06/2020

The European Commission has awarded the URV’s Martí i Franquès programme more than four million euros to be used to contract 50 predoctoral researchers. The selection process will take place over two editions in 2020 and 2021, and the chosen candidates will each be awarded a three-year contract. The university will contribute a further four million euros to the project. The URV is one of three institutions in Spain to have received funding in the last call of the European Commission’s COFUND-DP programme, and it is the one that has received the most money

Living through the pandemic away from home

09/06/2020

International students who have remained in Tarragona and local students who have not been able to return home at the end of their studies abroad describe their lockdown experiences

A new mechanism improves the efficiency of antibacterial surfaces

09/06/2020

URV researchers have developed a nanometric-scale theoretical model to create structures that kill bacteria by using elastic forces. The results of this study pave the way to creating new antibacterial materials

The new rapid diagnosis test for SARS-CoV-2 will be ready for manufacture by the end of July

08/06/2020

Large scale testing of the device is underway; in only 15 minutes and with just a single pinprick of blood it can determine with 100% reliability if a person has the disease or if they have developed antibodies to it

Two anti-inflammatory drugs found that inhibit the replication of the COVID-19 virus

27/05/2020

A study by the URV’s Cheminformatics and Nutrition research group has shown that an anti-inflammatory drug for humans and another for animals inhibit a key enzyme in the replication and transcription of the COVID-19 virus. The results of the work have been validated by the initiative COVIDMoonshot which has carried out in vitro studies and assessed their bioactivity. The results have been published in the "International Journal of Molecular Sciences"

A new technique preserves the anti-carcinogenic properties of polyphenols and flavonoids in oncological treatments

27/05/2020

The research opens the door to developing more natural drugs that are less toxic for patients with cancer. The results of this study led by researchers from the URV have been published in the journal Scientific Reports

A study identifies the mechanism by which eating fish reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease

20/05/2020

A diet rich in fish or omega 3 modulates the concentration of lipids that are passed on to cells by lipoproteins and reduces the likelihood of atherosclerosis, according to the most exhaustive study carried out to date by Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Harvard Medical School on more than 26,000 women

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