University of Tampere

Tampere gains recognition for alternatives to tests on animals

One of the world’s first centres focusing on alternative methods to animal testing operates at the University of Tampere.  At the beginning of the year the Finnish Centre for Alternative Methods (FICAM), which operates on the Kauppi Campus, developed and validated a method which can be used to replace or/and substitute animal tests in the [...]

A timeless boost from the Age of Antiquity

The figures of Antiquity provide a timeless boost, a flow or a power which pervades the very bones and core.  Such is the assessment of Juhani Sarsila, Adjunct Professor of the History of Learning, who, together with Maija-Leena Kallela, Lecturer of Latin, has written a book on the heroes of Ancient Greece entitled The Good [...]