News of university

Survey: Buenos Aires is third most expensive city in region for real estate

05-05-2022 16:49 Santiago de Chile and Montevideo top ranking of most expensive cities for real estate in Latin America, according to a new survey.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

UCA: 65% of children in Argentina living in poverty

08-12-2021 09:45 According to UCA’s Social Debt Observatory, 43.8% of the country’s population was considered poor as of last October, a drop of almost a point on the previous year’s total of 44.7%.

FRENCH PRESIDENT

UBA awards Emmanuel Macron a doctorate for work on environment

27-10-2021 15:25 Buenos Aires University (UBA) Chancellor Alberto Barbieri on Tuesday awarded a ‘honoris causa’ doctorate to French President Emmanuel Macron for his role in the struggle to preserve the environment.

And that reminds me...

Universities Breed Awareness

14-08-2021 07:30 Two centuries ago, UBA was inaugurated in San Ignacio Church next to what is today the Colegio Nacional, giving life to an edict dated August 9, 1821 issued by Buenos Aires Governor Martín Rodríguez – the university was thus pre-presidential.

by Michael Soltys

Coronavirus vaccine

Officials head to Mexico, Cuba for Covid-19 vaccine talks

24-05-2021 15:43 Two key officials in Alberto Fernández’s government are travelling to Mexico and Cuba for talks over arrival of new vaccines against Covid-19.

AS I SEE IT

Back to square one

10-04-2021 08:11 For poorer countries, among them Argentina, salvation is still a long way off.

by James Neilson

Vaccine delivery

Argentina takes delivery of 218,000 vaccine doses via Covax scheme

28-03-2021 22:40 Argentina took delivery of 218,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 on Sunday, the country's first shipment from the World Health Organisation's Covax scheme.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Major EU nations halt AstraZeneca as WHO says it is safe

15-03-2021 22:00 EU's largest countries joined stream of states halting rollouts of AstraZeneca jabs over blood clot fears, as the World Health Organisation and Europe's medicines watchdog insisted it was safe to use.

Dino discovery

Titanosaur found in Patagonia may be oldest yet, says study

01-03-2021 11:10 A colossal dinosaur dug up in the south of the country could be the oldest titanosaur ever found, scientists said Sunday.

REMEMBERING MARIO BUNGE

Difficult but necessary

27-02-2021 08:06 To write about Mario Bunge today, one year after his death on February 24, 2020, at the age of 100, is for me on the one hand difficult, but on the other necessary.

Biodiversity

Economic growth has 'devastating cost to nature', review finds

02-02-2021 09:17 Humanity's unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a "devastating cost to nature" according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet.

DINO DISCOVERY

New Patagonian dinosaur may be largest yet: scientists

21-01-2021 12:11 Scientists have unearthed massive, 98-million-year-old fossils in southwest Argentina they say may have belonged to the largest dinosaur ever discovered.

Covid-19 vaccine

Argentina approves AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid vaccine

30-12-2020 16:57 Hours after Britain did the same, Argentina authorises use of coronavirus vaccine developed by drug firm AstraZeneca and Oxford University.

HUNT FOR VACCINE

Covid-19: As lab execs sell shares worth millions, questions arise

15-11-2020 09:25 Executives at several US laboratories developing Covid-19 vaccines have recently pocketed millions of dollars by selling shares in their companies – raising questions about the propriety of such a move in the midst of a global health crisis.

ENVIRONMENT

Study: Antarctic Peninsula at warmest in decades

03-10-2020 16:51 This year is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study by the University of Santiago de Chile out Friday found.

HUNT FOR VACCINE

Oxford University and AstraZeneca resume coronavirus vaccine trial

13-09-2020 08:52 Trials of potential coronavirus vaccine officially restart, days after clincal trials were suspended following a reported side-effect in a UK patient.

Coronavirus pandemic

Virus crisis forces distance learning on Argentina's student doctors

10-09-2020 08:42 Thousands of students from the faculty of medicine at the University of Buenos Aires have been studying virtually since educational institutions were shut down in Argentina in March.

HUNT FOR VACCINE

Mexico warns setback in tests could delay AstraZeneca vaccine

09-09-2020 08:41 Latin American roll-out of AstraZeneca's potential Covid-19 vaccine could be delayed after the biotech company announced a pause in tests, says Mexican government, which will co-produce it with Argentina.

PROFILE

Hugo Sigman: Renaissance man's firm to co-produce vaccine

24-08-2020 07:00 Hugo Sigman is a low-profile businessman from the pharmaceutical industry, who is also one of Argentina's richest individuals. He also produces films, collects art and now his firm is to co-produce the Oxford-AstaZenaca vaccine with Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim.

by Ernesto Ise

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

More than 8,000 new virus cases for second straight day

22-08-2020 08:34 Health Ministry announces 8,159 new cases recorded on Friday – the second straight day that the amount cleared 8,000. Total number of infections to date now reaches 329,043.

Coronavirus pandemic

New poll points to lockdown fatigue in Buenos Aires City

15-08-2020 08:33 Eight out of 10 people admit to quarantine fatigue while also expressing fear of Covid-19 contagion, a University of Belgrano opinion poll has revealed.