Elections for student representatives on the School Council of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, through the electronic voting system eVotUM, took place on January 11. For the election of the representative of the students of the 1st cycle or 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the […]
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“How to break the chain of transmission with Stayaway Covid” was the theme of the initiative of the program “Fighting the Pandemic with UM Knowledge”. The initiative “Fighting the Pandemic with UM Knowledge” promoted, in the late afternoon of January 26, another conversation on “How to break the chain of […]
On 13 January, the new management team of the Department of Industrial Electronics for the biennium 2021-2022 took office in the meeting room of the Presidency of the School of Engineering. Graça Maria Henriques Minas took office as Department Director, with João Miguel Clemente Sena Esteves as Deputy Director. Besides […]
The history of the powerful genetic publishing technique, which was this year recognised with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and which may in the near future be the solution to many diseases that are now incurable, began more than 3 billion years ago when the first bacteria and bacteriophages, the […]
Madalena Alves, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho and director of CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, is one of the two new representatives of the Portuguese State on the Board of INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. Elvira Fortunato, full professor at FCT NOVA, […]
The combination of sporting excellence and academic success is worth prizes to 17 students. The University of Minho (UMinho) once again awarded its students who combined sporting excellence with academic success in 2019/2020. 17 athletic students were distinguished with the Sports Merit Awards (PMD), which achieved excellence in 6 sports. […]
The best high school students were in contact with the presidential team and EEUM researchers from December 16-18. The initiative, called “The Best Student at UMinho”, presented UMinho’s training offer in an online model and highlighted the research being done in this academy, which they may take part in. The […]
António Gomes Correia, full professor of the Civil Engineering department, was elected last December 10th as a member of the Board of Directors of Gustave Eiffel University, based on the criterion of being a “foreign or French personality with significant professional experience in the field of higher education and research […]
Joana Azeredo, a researcher and professor at EEUM was awarded the Silver Grade Medal by the Municipality of Braga. The municipal merit medals honor various entities and personalities who have distinguished themselves for their civic achievements or personal merits. In total, 58 medals of merit were awarded last December 9th, […]
The “Green Santa Claus” project proposes to reduce the environmental footprint at this season, as in the wrapping paper, the little lights and the shopping mall race, via free online sessions, reaches more than 10,000 students from 100 primary schools in the country. The director of Betweien, Narciso Moreira, explains […]
José Vieira, full professor of the Department of Civil Engineering, was admitted as an Associate Member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering. This decision was taken on December 2, at the annual meeting of this Academy. The Pan American Academy of Engineering (API), founded in Panama City in 2000, […]
Joana Cunha, Master student in Industrial Engineering – Logistics and Distribution, and athlete from SC Braga, won last November 24th the bronze medal in the -57KG taekwondo women’s competition at the European Open in Zagreb, Croatia. In the competition that marked her return, the SC Braga athlete eliminated the Spanish […]