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Christmas Holidays Schedule

Sapienza University will be closed from December 24 to 27 and December 31 to January 2, 2020. This includes all offices in the central administration, including the CIAO and HELLO Offices. The website will not be updated during the holiday. Lessons and exams will follow the academic calendar issued by the individual structures.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/christmas-holidays-schedule

Sapienza Professor Appointed Senior Visiting Member of ERC Project 2019

The European Commission has appointed Prof. Giorgio Piras as Senior Visiting Member for a project that won an ERC Consolidator Grant.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/sapienza-professor-appointed-senior-visiting-member-erc-project-2019

Targeted Drug Delivery: How to Exploit Cavitation to Promote Permeability of Blood Vessels and Focus on Diseased Tissues

A new collaborative research project between Sapienza University, the Italian Institute of Technology and Temple University in Philadelphia has engineered a blood vessel and applied an innovative integrated system to measure the permeability of its endothelium. The methodology allows targeted drug delivery to curtail toxic effects on the organism. The results were published on Small.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/targeted-drug-delivery-how-exploit-cavitation-promote-permeability-blood-vessels-and-focus

On Fashion: Art and Feminism in the Words of Maria Grazia Chiuri

On Saturday, December 14, at the Faculty of Humanities, Maria Grazia Chiuri, stylist and first female Artistic Director at Dior, will hold a lesson for the inauguration of the 2019-20 Masters Degree in Fashion Studies.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/fashion-art-and-feminism-words-maria-grazia-chiuri

ALL LESSONS CANCELLED ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

Following the weather alert, Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi has suspended all educational activities on Friday, December 13.

Exam and thesis sessions will be held as scheduled.

All labs, libraries and offices remain open.

Presentation of the “Road Safety” Centre of Excellence

The “Road Safety” Centre of Excellence was presented on December 10. This is the first Italian national pilot project integrating transversal competences related to road safety.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/presentation-road-safety-centre-excellence

Coaching Empathy: From Imitating to Sharing Emotions

A recent study conducted by the Sapienza Department of Psychology, in collaboration with the Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, has devised new ways of reinforcing the automatic imitation of emotions. The results, published on Cortex, could be helpful with autistic and schizophrenic individuals.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/coaching-empathy-imitating-sharing-emotions

Sapienza Confirmed at Helm of UNICA

Sapienza will once again lead UNICA. Prof. Luciano Saso, Sapienza Deputy Rector for European University Networks, has been re-elected as President of the network of universities of European capital cities.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/sapienza-confirmed-helm-unica

Simulating Life in Space to Understand Life on Earth

A new study developed by Sapienza University, together with the “Luigi Vanvitelli” University of Campania and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, employed a highly innovative system to analyse the effect of the absence of gravity on cell life. The results, published on Nature NPJ Microgravity, reveal the importance of biophysical factors in the definition of new therapeutic strategies against cancer.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/simulating-life-space-understand-life-earth

Degree Programme in Sustainability Sciences

On Wednesday, December 4, Sapienza will present the first edition of the new interfaculty degree programme in Sustainability Sciences.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/presentation-interfaculty-programme-sustainability-sciences

Italian Academic Center Inaugurated in New York

The Centre, hosted by the Tata Innovation Center, will work on innovative projects and research promoted by Sapienza University, the University of Bologna and the “Federico II” University of Naples.

see more: https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/italian-academic-center-inaugurated-new-york