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| WELCOME AND WELCOME BACK | | New Arrivals at the academic Community A new academic year begins and USI welcomes all freshmen and five new professors. In September, Grafton Architects (Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara) will start their teaching activities as Full Professors in Architectural Design at the Academy. In October, Raphaël Parchet will take office as an assistant professor in regional economics, whereas starting from January, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve and Robert Soulé will be at USI as
assistant professors in public communication and in informatics respectively. To all the others, our warmest welcome back! | | TWO NEW DEANS AND A NEW ACADEMY DIRECTOR | | Changes at the Top of three Faculties Prof. Rico Maggi, who has been leading the Faculty of Economics for
four years, hands his office over to Prof. François Degeorge from the Institute of Finance. Prof. Mauro Pezzè, head of the Faculty of Informatics for the last four years, leaves his position to Michele Lanza, professor of software visualization and evolution. Mario Botta is followed by Prof. Marc Collomb as Director of the Academy of Architecture. >>> | | THE JOURNEY INTO COMEDY RESUMES AT USI | | Launch of the Series on the Purgatorio, while on iTunesU the Inferno breaks loose Comeback of the public lectures of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy organised by USI: on Wednesday, 18 September, the French Dante scholar Jacqueline Risset, author of a reference translation of Dante’s poem,
will launch the new series Lectura Dantis II, dedicated to the Purgatorio. The public lecture will be held at 6pm in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus. It is also possible to review the 13 lectures on Inferno from the last academic year by downloading them on iTunesU. >>> | | INAUGURATION OF AN EXHIBITION AT THE ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE | | Timber Project The exhibition presents the latest research in the field of wooden construction. The project – which emerges at the intersection of various disciplines such as civil engineering, architecture, mathematics and informatics – suggests innovative and sustainable solutions. The inauguration will be held on Thursday, 19
September, at 7pm in the Academy Gallery on Mendrisio Campus. >>> | | 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ZONTA CLUB LUGANO | | Scholarships to support the best Students of
Ticino To celebrate its 50-year existence, the Zonta Club Lugano will award scholarships to students from Ticino, to Swiss students residing in Ticino, or to foreigners with a residence permit (“C”). Applications have to be submitted by 15
November, 2013. >>> | | EMSCOM | | Leadership and Motivation: surprising truths The 15th EMScom Excellence-in-communications Lecture will be held in Zurich, at the headquarters of FIFA, on 31 October. Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci will discuss recent experimental and empirical evidence to argue that the relationship between monetary incentives, motivation and leadership, is less straightforward than most managers and HR systems assume. Discounted entrance of 100 CHF for USI students and alumni, registration by 24 October. >>> | | REGISTRATION TO VENTURE CHALLENGE IS OPEN | | A Course that will bring you to take on the Role of a new Entrepreneur Venture Challenge is a biannual course for those who are considering becoming an entrepreneur. The participants will acquire the theoretical foundations required to set up a business, and they will carry out practical exercises based on real start-up cases. Registration by 24 September. >>> |
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| - Discovery of a human antibody that neutralises 4 different viruses and has the potential to prevent and treat severe respiratory infections. The important discovery, which was published in the scientific journal Nature, confirms the success of the collaboration between the Humabs
BioMed and the IRB >>>
- More than 100 participants at Italiamo, the first national meeting of Italian teachers that was held at the beginning of September on Lugano Campus >>>
- Graduation ceremony for 88 new architects >>>
- New mobile app dedicated to Ticino’s two UNESCO
World Heritage Sites >>>
- The future of public health under scrutiny at the Summer School in Public Health Policy, Economics and Management 2013 >>>
- Language school: 60 Swiss high school students at USI to study Italian >>>
- Around 70 boys and girls at USI to discover the fascination of informatics >>>
- Giovanna Demo, Master student in Marketing, reaches the final in high jump at the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan >>>
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Wednesday, 18 September, 3.30pm | Public seminar of the Faculty of Informatics Digital Libraries and Development | Room SI 008, Informatics building | Wednesday, 18 September, 6pm | Lectura Dantis II Purgatorio, in „the sweet colour of oriental sapphire": Jacqueline Risset | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Thursday, 19 September, 7pm | Presentation of the Language Learning TANDEM Programme, organised in collaboration with Franklin College Switzerland | Room A12, Lugano Campus | Thursday, 19 September, 7pm | Inauguration of the exhibition Timber Project | Academy Gallery, Canavée Building, Mendrisio Campus |
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