The higher education institutions in Turku are organising a joint sustainability event on 19 September 2023. Students, researchers and staff from all universities are invited to participate and discuss and learn about sustainability in various ways.

Licenciado Alejandro Da Silva Nascimento’s doctoral thesis in Cell Biology will be put forth for public defence at Faculty of Science and Engineering at Åbo Akademi University. The thesis is entitled “Intertwining Cell Adhesion, Gene Expression, and Stress”. 

Master of Theology Topias Tanskanen’s doctoral thesis in Old Testament Exegetics will be put forth for public defence at The Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University.  The thesis is entitled “Jacob, the Torah, and the Abrahamic Promise: Studies on the Use and Interpretation of the Jacob Story in the Book of Jubilees”. 

M.Sc. David Norrbo’s doctoral thesis in Mathematics will be put forth for public defence at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Åbo Akademi University. The thesis is entitled “Different types of weighted composition operators on Banach spaces of analytic functions”.

Master of Theology Miia Kontro’s doctoral thesis in Practical Theology will be put forth for public defence at The Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University. The thesis is entitled “Attitudes Towards Euthanasia among the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Clergy”.

MFA in Music Jonas Lundblad’s doctoral thesis in Musicology will be put forth for public defence at the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University. The thesis is entitled “A Composite Modernist Composer: A Study of Intersections between Composition, Theorizing, and Performance in Olivier Messiaen”.

Council of Europe Human Rights Day in Turku The very first Council of Europe Human Rights Day in Finland was organised in Turku by the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi, the City of Turku, …

M.A. Ritva Hyttinen’s doctoral thesis in Information studies will be put forth for public defence at Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Law at Åbo Akademi University. The thesis is entitled “Desire for Inclusion: Construction of Professional Identity of Library Students with an Immigrant Background”.

M.Sc. (Tech.) Emmi Henriksson receives the Åbo Akademi Natural Materials Technology Award for her master’s thesis “Chemical addition to the wet web using foam application.”

Can’t log in to your ÅAU account? The deadline for the mandatory information security course was midnight to 2 May 2023. After the deadline, accounts were automatically locked for all users who had not completed the …

MSc Daniel Schmid’s doctoral thesis in Inorganic Chemistry will be put forth for public defence at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Åbo Akademi University.  The thesis is entitled “Laboratory Studies on Aqueous Absorption and High Temperature Chemistry of NOx and SOx in Thermal Conversion of Biomass Waste”. 

The Open University at Åbo Akademi offers courses also during the summer. Some of the courses have contact teaching, others can be studied online at own pace. The summer couses are open to all, without enrolling …

The GreenAro project will develop sustainable production routes from renewable raw materials to aromatics needed in high volume for the production of products such as glues, paints and plastics.

The results show that there are still specific patterns in the personality traits of male and female characters in films consistent with societal stereotypes.

Humanisticum changes name to Juridicum The Dahlström Palace at Biskopsgatan 13 in Turku, also known as Humanisticum, is changing its name to Juridicum. In June, the law staff will move in from Domvillan and at least …