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A team of American researchers, with the help of Frédérik De Laender, professor in the Department of Biology at UNamur, has just published in the prestigious journal Nature. Their study describes how changing stream temperatures and human introductions of fish can alter river biodiversity in the USA.

Two researchers from the University of Namur's Department of Physics, Professor Michaël Lobet and his PhD student Adrien Debacq, are taking a close look at a subject that fascinates the scientific community : superradiance in media with a refractive index close to zero. In an article published this summer in Nature's prestigious journal Light: science & applications, in collaboration with Harvard University (USA), Michigan Technological University (MTU) and Sparrow Quantum, they contribute to the development of quantum computing.

Charlotte Beaudart, a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded the Mandat Start-Up Collen-Francqui! A prestigious distinction awarded by the Francqui Foundation to support promising young researchers in the development of their research program.

In the hall of the Faculty of Medicine still sits the first transmission electron microscope, a Philips EM300 used at the Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix in the 70s. The history of electron microscopy at UNamur began, but the real start was made in 1975 with the acquisition of three more microscopes: two transmission and one scanning. In February 2018, when the technology platforms were created, this department was attached to the MORPH-IM platform, and in April 2024 became the independent "Electron Microscopy" platform, UNamur's 11th technology platform.

From August 25 to 31, the University of Namur welcomed 16 PhD students from partner universities of the European UNIVERSEH alliance for an immersive week at the Euro Space Center on the theme of sustainable space exploration. A promising first edition for this SciArts Lab Week, imagined and organized in collaboration with KIKK ASBL and the University of Luxembourg.

Rubber boots, overalls, the bleating of ewes, the smell of straw... The scene is set. On the farm of the Centre de Recherche Ovine, located in the Namur countryside, veterinary students live, for the space of a few days, to the rhythm of lamb births. An intense, formative experience, filled with technical gestures and emotions, supervised by veterinarians from the University of Namur.

A flurry of awards for the NaDI-CeRCLe research center in recent weeks. The service management research of three young doctoral students from the EMCP Faculty has been recognized by their peers at leading international scientific events: Floriane Goosse, Victor Sluÿters and Florence Nizette. This summer, we invite you to discover their careers and their work.

The team of professor Xavier De Bolle has just published an article in the prestigious EMBO Journal published by Springer Nature.  His discovery? A lipid transport channel through the cell membrane of Brucella, the bacteria responsible for Brucellosis in cattle. This finding could be used to generate attenuated strains of the bacteria; a process used in vaccine manufacturing. 

On April 8, the Histoire, Sons et Images research center (HiSI, a member of the Institut Patrimoines, Transmissions et Héritages - PaTHs) organized, in collaboration with the "Coalition 8 mai" association, a colloquium on the theme of the relationship between women and the extreme right. Bénédicte Rochet and Axel Tixhon, professors in the History Department, explored this theme from the angle of women active in the Resistance during the 40-45 war. Their approach is fully in line with the research center's vision, which studies audio and/or visual documents as historical sources, but also history as a way of understanding the present.