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16/10/2026
UIC Professor Federico Hernández-Alfaro awarded ”la Caixa” Foundation grant for research into severe jawbone atrophy
Selected from 579 applications, the project will evaluate a digitally planned rehabilitation technique aimed at restoring oral function and improving patients’ quality of life.
16/10/2026
Mentoring Week promotes personal and professional support for UIC students
The initiative, organised by the Mentoring and Personal Development Service, brings students and mentors together and highlights the role mentoring plays while at university.
15/10/2026
Alejandra Vargas addresses emerging challenges in public sector compliance at the World Compliance Congress in Lima
The UIC lecturer in Criminal Law and coordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in Compliance and Cybersecurity took part in an international panel alongside former Comptroller General of Peru Nelson Shack and former Mayor of Quito Paco Moncayo
15/10/2026
The Majúscula Awards are launched to pay tribute to the role of teachers
The Faculty of Education Sciences highlights the social value of the teaching profession through the Majúscula Awards, an initiative that invites participants to share their memories of a teacher who made a lasting impression on them during their time at school
15/10/2026
Lecturer Arturo Méndiz tells the story of a resistance movement during the Spanish Civil War in his new documentary
Arturo Méndiz, a lecturer in the Faculty of Communication Sciences, premiered the documentary La Bolsa de Bielsa in Barcelona on 13 October. The production explores the stories of five descendants of residents who lived through the harrowing experience of fleeing their villages during the Spanish Civil War.
15/10/2026
UIC and Cecot sign an agreement to promote training, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship
The agreement provides for training activities, specialisation courses, professional events and initiatives aimed at fostering entrepreneurship and the creation of new businesses
15/10/2026
UIC researcher Iris Crespo leads a study on the impact of discussing death with palliative care patients
The HABLAR project, spearheaded by the University’s WeCare Chair, analyses the impact of initiating conversations about the end of life with people with advanced cancer. Preliminary findings indicate that this intervention does not adversely affect patients’ emotional wellbeing
13/10/2026
The Faculty of Humanities launches the first edition of the UIC Young Humanists Award
The initiative invites students from Spanish-speaking Latin America to reflect on what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, with the aim of fostering critical thinking, humanistic reflection and argumentative writing among younger generations
13/10/2026
Locke, Kant and political authoritarianism: Wendy R. Simon explores the philosophical roots of Nazism
The lecturer at UIC's Institute for Culture and Thought, has presented her research on National Socialism at an international conference held at the Universitat de València
09/10/2026
Núria Oliver: “The crucial question is not what we can delegate to artificial intelligence, but what we do not want to delegate”
Núria Oliver, holder of a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), delivered the inaugural lecture marking the start of the 2026–2027 academic year at UIC, where she reflected on how to move towards socially sustainable artificial intelligence
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