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| | NUMBERS SPEAK |  | The Number of USI's Students is growing again. Positive are also the Figures on Graduates Occupational Placement For the Academic Year 2012-2013, USI serves a total of 2,919 students, 53 more than last year. 34.3% of registered students come from Switzerland, 41.2% from Italy and the remaining 24.5% from other countries. Regarding occupation of our graduates, the 2012 survey shows that 91.7% of USI's students found an occupation within a year from graduation (74.2% work professionally and 15.2% are studying). The percentage of students who found an occupation within 5 years from graduation rose at 98%. More Information. | | | AWARDS |  | Helmholtz Award 2013 to Jürgen Schmidhuber At IDSIA since 1995, an USI-SUPSI mutual Institution, prof. Schmidhuber is a researcher of Artificial Intelligence. The
prestigious award was assigned for his excellent and important contribution in understanding the perceptions and human feelings in the field of neural networks. The prize is the crowning achievement of a series of international awards conferred to IDSIA, which earned the Institute a mention on the International Herald Tribune. More Information. | | | IN SUPPORT OF TICINO'S BEST STUDENTS |  | Harley-Davidson Club Ticino new Scholarship The club established two annual scholarships of CHF 4,000. All Swiss students who reside in Ticino will be eligible upon admission to the University or if regularly registered to a Bachelor programme (II or III year) or Master at USI. Applications must be submitted by 18 January, 2013 and a special commission will confer the scholarship based on merit. More Information. | | | REGISTRATION TO VENTURE LEADERS 2013 IS OPEN |  | Come and join the International Start-Up Team and try and win a ten-days course in
Boston The 20 start-ups selected will take part in a programme about business development, as part of the national initiative venturelab. A unique chance to connect with American start-ups, experts and venture capital firms. The programme also includes a four-days entrepreneurship course at Babson College. Registration by 1 March, 2013. More Information. | | | DONATING IS BLOODY GOOD |  | Tuesday's Blood Drive has been a success: thanks everyone! The event organised by the Swiss Red Cross Blood Transfusion Centre in cooperation with USI had an excellent outcome. 61 volunteers showed up at the stand: 49 were found eligible to donate blood (35 women and 14 men) and about 25 litres of blood were collected to cure 98 patients, covering a full day of transfusions in Ticino. | | | TEN YEARS OF STUDY
IN ONE BOOK |  | Health Management: principles, local and international experiences, perspectives Published by Salvioni (Bellinzona 2012), the volume was edited by prof. Stefano Calciolari and Marco Meneguzzo, under the patronage of the Swiss School of Public Health. It is a manual for post graduate education, also valuable for professionals in the field of healthcare. The book represents a milestone for the activity in research and training carried out for ten years by the Public Health Policy, Economics and Management of USI's Institute of Economics, and a contribution to the debate on the changes of the Swiss Healthcare system. | | | INVITATION TO BID |  | Awards for the best Bachelor, Master and PhD Thesis Last week NZZ Campus and MakingScienceNews have launched a competition for the next year. Thanks to four national challenges, they will award in 2013 the best PhD (Top-Doc, registration by 18.2.2013), MBA (Top-MBA, registration by 11.3.2013), Master (Top-Master, registration by 29.7.2013) and Bachelor Thesis (Top-Bachelor, registration by 23.9.2013). More Information. | | | MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE |  | USI Coro Christmas Concert The Christmas
concert of the Student Association USI Coro will be held on Wednesday, 19 December, at 8.30pm in room 354 of Lugano Campus. Conducted by Candice Carmalt, the
choir will feature Christmas carols and more: the programme also includes pop and traditional songs, the performance of three solo artists and a surprise instrumental performance. More Information. | | | O-TUR: TOURISM UNDER THE LENS |  | ATLAS Business Tourism Conference, hosted by USI One of the few encounters of international relevance specifically target to business travel has been held from 9 to 11 December. Researchers and operators hailing from all over Europe and more, gathered on Lugano Campus and tackled issues such as innovations in field that has yet to be fully explored, and that could represent and attractive market for the revival of tourism in Ticino. More Information. | | | USI MERCHANDISING |  | Special Christmas Sale on Lugano Campus Still not done with Christmas shopping? A special sale of USI's merchandise will be held on Wednesday, 19 December in the main entrance of Lugano Campus, from 10am till 2pm. Some items will be on sale and there will be a chance for everyone to win an hoodie, by visiting the
official USI Facebook page and share the post. Check out http://www.shop.usi.ch/ for a preview of the products! | | | INFORMATICS LETS LOOSE |  | Presentation of the Semester Projects The encounter is on Wednesday, 19 December, from 2pm in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus. After an introduction by Dean Mauro Pezzè, Professor Jazayeri, Pautasso and
Nystrom will illustrate what's been cooking in Programming Fundamentals 1, Software Atelier 3 e Software Atelier 5, through the presentation of the students semester projects. More Information. | | | SPECIAL DEALS |  | Skiing with the Sport Service Thanks to an agreement reached by the Sport Service, students and USI Staff can purchase Andermatt's daily skipass at the price of CHF 25.- (instead of CHF 56.-). To take advantage of the offer is enough to show the University's ID at the Gemstock ski lifts. The agreement adds up to the ones already existing for the lifts in Cardada and Splügen. At the Sport Service it is also possible to rent
equipment at a special fee (skis, snowboards and boots). More Information. |
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Monday, 17 December, 11am | Public Seminar of the
Faculty of Informatics
Tap&Play, Authoring pen and paper language activities | Room SI-015, Lugano Campus | Monday, 17 December, 2pm | USI Career Service and ALaRI Presentation
United Technologies Research Center: Shaped the Past and Looking Ahead | Room SI-003, Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 18 December, 6pm | Pinocchio, a Puppet's Tale Massimiliano Finazzer Flory presents the genesis of his show | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 19 December, 2pm | Faculty of Informatics
presentation of the student's semestral projects | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 19
December, 6pm | Lectura Dantis:
Piero Boitani, Inferno XXXIII | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 19 December, 6pm | USI Coro's Christmas Concert | Room
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