Even low concentration levels of toxins in apparently clean surface waters can be fatal to the plant kingdom, reveals one of the latest studies from the Department of Botany at the Faculty of Science and Technology (TTK) of the University of Debrecen. The study, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, presents at the cellular and molecular levels how toxic substances and herbicides in our environment damage the inner defense mechanisms of plant cells. These internationally significant findings have been recognized with the Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen Publication Award.
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The city of Debrecen, together with the University of Debrecen, share an opportunity to emerge as one of the most important new centers of European electromobility and battery manufacturing. This assumption is also supported by a meeting on Thursday, during the course of which the management of our university received a high-ranking Chinese delegation in the Rector’s Council Chamber of the Main Building. The primary focus of the discussion at the meeting was the university’s official accession to the global professional association of its Far Eastern partners.
The cooperation between the University of Debrecen and the Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) in Nitra is on the way to expand by involving new academic fields of study. Apart from their collaboration in agricultural and food sciences, the two institutions are now building closer connections in the fields of engineering and economics, too. The latest agreement between the two sides about, among other things, faculty and student exchanges, joint conferences and research projects was signed on Thursday, July 9.
At a ceremony held on Saturday, July 4, in the venue called Aula of its Main Building, the University of Debrecen inaugurated 104 new doctors. Titles for habilitated doctorate and Professor Emeritus status, as well as Excellence Ph.D. Scholarships of the Count István Tisza Foundation for the University of Debrecen were also awarded at the event.
Students of architecture from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen achieved outstanding results at an international student design competition named CASA. Three of the ten best entries selected by the international jury at this prestigious competition were prepared by Debrecen students.
The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen has concluded an agreement with EVE Power Hungary Kft. on the development of practice-oriented engineering programs, the training of new talent in shortage occupations and the launching of a targeted education program. The agreement was officially signed on Thursday, July 2.
The first in a row of summer graduation ceremonies of the current year was held by the University of Debrecen on Thursday. There were almost 300 students from the Faculty of Engineering receiving their diplomas at the ceremony, which was held in the Inner Courtyard of the Main Building, while a number of special honors and awards were also presented.
A team of eight students represented the Department of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen at the Middle European Planning Seminar held in Poděbrady, Czech Republic. At the Middle European International Urban Planning Workshop, these participants were able to test their engineering knowledge in an international environment, gaining insight into the unique educational methods and standards of other countries and solving real-world urban planning challenges through hands-on practical projects.