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Three participants from the 2018 finals of 3 Minute Thesis
Mon, 02/18/2019 - 13:35
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18/02/2019

3 Minute Thesis competition to be held at the UGR

The University of Granada will launch this year’s edition of the 3 Minute Thesis competition on Wednesday 20 February. Originally conceived and set in motion by the University of Queensland in 2008, the contest has since spread to far-flung corners of the globe and is now held in over 200 universities worldwide.

A session being delivered as part of the IRDW in 2018
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 12:35
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29/01/2019

II International Researcher Development Week (25-29 March)

The International Researcher Development Week (IRDW) is a one-week event for researchers and academics as well as policy officers in charge of research and knowledge transfer at the partner universities of the University of Granada. The event is financed by the European Union's Erasmus+ International Dimension Programme and will take place from 25 to 29 March 2019.

A stack of receipts
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 10:15
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18/01/2019

Receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, study finds

Ninety per cent of tickets and receipts — those whose ink fades after some time because they are made of ‘thermal paper’ — contain bisphenol A (BPA). BPA is a well‑known endocrine disruptor that alters hormonal balance in people exposed to it and leads to hormonal diseases such as genitourinary malformations, infertility, obesity and cancer in hormone‑dependent organs (such as breast cancer).