| INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE (IRB) | | Ercole Pisello Award for Prof. Antonio Lanzavecchia The IRB’s director has received the prize that is awarded annually by the Giuseppe Corradi Association. The award is given to personalities of the medical and scientific world who have excelled in their research and study activities. Over the years, various physicians and researchers were honored with this award, including Rita Levi Montalcini, Christiaan Barnard, Carlo Rubbia, Umberto Veronesi, Silvio Garattini and Athos Gallino from Ticino.
>>> | | INSTITUTE OF ITALIAN STUDIES (ISI) | | Lecture-Show by one of Italy’s best Actors, Fabrizio Gifuni, on texts by Carlo Emilio Gadda
The event will take place on Friday, 8 November, at 8.30 pm in the Aula Magna of Lugano Campus. It was organised by the ISI in collaboration with Lugano’s Area Turismo ed Eventi, and it will inaugurate the new series of lectures Per voce sola. For all members of USI’s academic community the entrance is free. You simply have to register in advance via sportello.foce@lugano.ch and present your university ID card at the checkout. >>> | |
REGISTRATION TO CONFRONTI-ECONOMIA 2013 IS OPEN | | The economic Competitiveness of Ticino: opportunities for a border region in an open market ConfronTi-Economia will be held on Thursday, 28 November. It is a regular event dedicated to reflections and discussions about the canton’s economic and structural dynamics in an inter-regional, national and cross-border context. The analysis of
Ticino’s economic competitiveness highlights various critical
aspects in comparison with other Swiss cantons. The actual challenge concerns the ability to read and reinterpret these factors in a new way, to transform them into competitive assets of our territory’s economic system. >>> | | EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES SERVICE AND FACULTY OF INFORMATICS | |
A Time Bank to reconcile our various Activities Thanks to TimeRepublik it is possible to barter all kinds of knowledge and activities with other USI users, and more in general with all registered users, encouraging networking and mutual help. USI’s Equal Opportunities Service and the Faculty of Informatics invite you to register by inserting “Università della Svizzera italiana” in your profile and to thus become part of the community dedicated to our university’s members. If you have any questions, you can refer to monica.landoni@usi.ch. >>>
| | THE ASSOCIATION 'MAKING ART IN OUR TIME' AND USI’S IDEATORIO | | Is Man alone? In a crowded world
where significant relationships give up and differences become greater, loneliness increases. The conference that will be held on Saturday, 23 November, starting from 11 am in the
Auditorium (Lugano Campus), will present different aesthetic, scientific and philosophical perspectives on the topic of loneliness. Salvatore Settis, Marc Augé, Telmo Pievani, Bice Curiger, Thomas Ruff and N.T. Binh will participate. The entrance is free upon registration as long as seats are available. For more information: www.associazione-nel.ch. >>> | | | |