University of Tartu (UT) researchers recently wrapped up a three-year study on the use of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in human and veterinary medicine, as well as the spread of antibiotic residues in the environment. The day when medicine no longer finds enough help from antibiotics may be just around the corner, says professor Tanel Tenson in an interview.
Demonstrations by students and university staff in Estonia have, until now, been slow and infrequent. However, demonstrations are a natural part of a democratic society and a legitimate way to influence leaders to change their policies, writes Isabel Jezierska, MA student at the University of Tartu.
A lot of people in helmets have been busying themselves at a construction site at Jakobi 5 in Tartu for several months. They include, in addition to construction workers erecting the new study building of the University of Tartu Institute of Education, archaeologists who have discovered exciting finds from a bygone era.
December weather is no hindrance. We meet with the dig supervisor, CEO of Arheox, the company in charge of the archaeological effort, Rivo Bernotas and site supervisors Keiti Randoja and Kristjan Kreos in a snow-covered courtyard where people have been parking their cars for years. Even archaeologists did not expect to immediately strike old walls not shown on any map, Maarit Stepanov writes in the journal Universitas Tartuensis.