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ERC Starting Grant –rahoituksen avulla Juha Muhonen toteuttaa tutkimusryhmässään uudenlaisen hybridialustan kvanttikomponenttien yhdistämiseen.

Nanoresearcher Juha Muhonen receives a significant grant for developing components for a quantum computer

Associate professor, academy research fellow, Juha Muhonen from the University of Jyväskylä has received the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.

"The researchers showed that predators learn to avoid more distasteful yellow frogs and generalize this avoidance to white frogs", says Doctor Bibiana Rojas from University of Jyvaskylä.

Toxic frogs with weak defenses persist in the gene pool alongside stronger competitors

Diversity is a hallmark of life and it shows up in unexpected places.

Open Pitch Friday on 6th September!

Every month, JYU's StartupLab organizes an Open Pitch Friday (OPF).

JYU declares Climate Emergency as the first university in Finland

As the first Finnish university, the University of Jyväskylä has signed the Global Climate Emergency Letter of more than 8,000 universities and higher education institutions,thus committing to the goals of the declaration.

Nuorena saavutettu hyvä kestävyyskunto yhdessä matalahkon rasvaprosentin kanssa näyttäisi parantavan aineenvaihduntaa ja suojaavan verisuonisairauksilta ja kakkostyypin diabetekselta.

Aerobic fitness is associated with serum metabolite levels indicative of reduced cardio-metabolic disease risk

A Finnish study of 580 healthy adult men indicates that many serum metabolites known to be associated with reduced cardio-metabolic risk are related to aerobic fitness.

Digitaalisuus tarjoaa uusia mahdollisuuksia opiskelumuotojen ja -materiaalien monimuotoisuuteen.

Future opportunities for accessible Higher Education

Accessibility in focus - HEI’s gather in Jyväskylä, Finland to develop accessibility in eLearning

Teachers remain satisfied with their work, though maintaining order remains a challenge

TALIS 2018 – a large-scale international survey on teaching and learning.

Enteroviruses in electron microscope. Credit: University of Helsinki and University of Jyväskyla/Visa Ruokolainen and Ausra Domaska

Physiological mechanisms leading to enterovirus opening revealed – helps in developing therapeutic treatments

Enteroviruses are one of the most common human pathogens leading to high number of acute and chronic infections worldwide.

JYU improved its position in the Shanghai Ranking

The University of Jyväskylä was again included in the Shanghai Ranking (Academic Ranking of World Universities, ARWU). This year the ranking was 501–600, while it was 601–700 last year.

In enriched rearing method structures are added to rearing tanks to increase habitat complexity and resemblance to natural conditions.

Enriched environment in aquaculture enhances the survival of fish from bacterial disease

Cooperative study conducted by University of Jyväskylä and Natural Resources institute Finland (Luke), revealed that enriched rearing of juvenile fish significantly enhances the survival of fish from bacterial infection commonly seen in rearing...

The summer school gathers students of natural sciences and information technology from all over the world to study in Jyväskylä in 5–16 August.

The international Jyväskylä summer school unites natural science and technology

Jyväskylä has one of Finland’s largest and oldest international summer schools.

Eput lukemassa Jyväskylän normaalikoulussa. Kuvaaja Petteri Kivimäki

Reproducibility of Brain Responses: High for speech perception, Low for Reading Difficulties

Some of the findings in cognitive neuroscience and psychology do not seem to replicate from one study to the next. Could this also be true for commonly used brain response studies?