The company Cefar-Compex has made its Compex 3 available to the UIC. This electrotherapy device for muscle stimulation with Muscle Intelligence (MI) technology is designed to facilitate the work of physiotherapists.
The graduation ceremony of the first graduating class in the UIC's postgraduate programme in Fashion and Trend Communication was held on Friday, 13 June 2008. The ceremony was presided over by Dr. Núria Durany, the Vice Rector for Research, Dr. Salvador Aragonés, the Assistant Dean of Journalism, Dolors Massot, the director of the postgraduate programme, and María Rosa Olona, the Director of Communication of L'Oréal.
Eztizen Andia Larrea, a student in the Oral Implantology Master's Programme, was awarded second prize in the poster category for the poster she presented at the 12th Conference on Oral Surgery and Implantology organized by the Spanish Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (SECOM), held on 21-23 May 2008 in Santiago de Compostela.
The UIC offered the practical lab class "What Kind of Research Goes on in a Microbiology Lab?" to a group of students at Cardenal Spínola School. The aim of the initiative is to make students in secondary and vocational-training school aware of everyday science.
Dr. Lluís Giner, research director of the Dentistry Department, gave a conference at the Pierre Fauchard Dentistry Society on cross-border research and clinical research in dentistry.