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08 July  — Progress in the 2020 Shanghai subject ranking

On June 29th, Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) revealed the 2020 league table. This year, the University of Bordeaux features in 27 disciplines, and is ranked among the wo...

01 July  — Update on the welcoming of international students for 2020/2021

As a result of the sanitary crisis linked to COVID-19, the University of Bordeaux has modified its welcome policy for international students. Joanne Pagèze, vice-president for internationalization, pr...

Bordeaux Summer School - 'COVID-19 in Africa: multidisciplinary insights'

29 June  — The ‘COVID-19 in Africa: multidisciplinary insights’ online Bordeaux Summer School

The University of Bordeaux organized its first online Bordeaux Summer School from the 22nd to the 26th of June 2020. Dedicated to the health, economic and political challenges raised by the COVID-19 e...

Vélo à assistance électrique à hydrogène développé pour la ville de Bordeaux © F. Mauvy

25 June  — Towards a greener, sustainable energy with hydrogen?

Scientists on the Bordeaux campus, together with industrial partners, are developing various projects on the production and use of hydrogen in order to offer new technological solutions in the area of...

Local release, assisted by an acoustic trap, of nanoparticles transported by microbubbles © Diego Baresch / I2M

24 June  — Microbubbles controlled by acoustical tweezers for highly localized drug release

By controlling microbubbles with acoustic tweezers, researchers have shown that it is possible to release drugs in an ultra-localized manner. This first biomedical application was published in the jou...

Composite image of Centaurus A, showing the jets emerging from the galaxy’s central black hole, together with the associated gamma radiation © ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray), H.E.S.S. collaboration (Gamma).

22 June  — Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long

An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists, including scientists from Bordeaux, has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from quasars, galaxies with a highly en...

L'équipe mobile de dépistage #COVIDー19 des étudiants en santé © DR

15 June  — COVID-19: Bordeaux medical students active during the sanitary crisis

At the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, the entire French health system was mobilized and medical staff were in need of support during this unprecedented crisis. Bordeaux’s medical students natural...

15 June  — Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being and mental health

A research team from the Bordeaux Population Health research center (INSERM & University of Bordeaux) in association with the health company Kappa Santé, recently launched CONFINS, a major study into ...

12 June  — Latest updates [Update 06/12 - 7:05 PM]

The University of Bordeaux is closed until further notice. All the updated information and latest messages from the President of the University of Bordeaux about the Covid-19 epidemic are available on...

Photograph (top) and 3D reconstruction by microtomography (bottom) of the bird sculpture © Francesco d’Errico & Luc Doyon

12 June  — Discovery of the oldest Chinese art

An international team, including researchers from the Pacea* laboratory, have unveiled the discovery in China of a 13,500-year-old miniature bird sculpture made from burnt bone. This statuette is beli...