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| |  | NEW AT USI Public presentation of the new Executive Master in Business Administration EMBA
The meeting, which will take place Thursday, at 11:30 (room A14, Lugano Campus), will be the occasion for USI's newest Executive Master to be presented to the public and to the press. The new master will launch in May of 2011. Designed to meet the needs of career professionals, this post-graduate part-time programme will be held in English and boasts an international faculty. The presentation will see the participation of Prof. Gianluca Colombo, Co-Director of the EMBA and Director of the Institute of Management at USI,
Prof. Erik Larsen, Co-Director of the EMBA and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics, and Marco Passalìa, Vice-Director and Head of Servizio Export e Legalizzazioni, Camera di commercio, dell'industria, dell'artigianato e dei servizi del cantone Ticino. |  | AWARD Prof.
Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, on the USI Council since 2002, elected to the prestigious International Academy of Education Founded in 1986, the Academy promotes excellence in the knowledge of the education sector in order to help resolve serious problems throughout the world that face this key part of society. Additionally, the Academy seeks to improve the interactions between policy-makers, researchers and professionals. Its 45 members from around the world are elected by virtue of their work in the field of scientific research (basic and applied) and for their expertise in
education policy.
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AWARD
Prof. Stephan Russ-Mohl recognized by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Stephan Russ-Mohl is Director of the
European Journalism Observatory of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and a Full Professor at USI since 2002. Last week, in Mainz, he was presented the Gutenberg Fellowship, an award towards his academic career. The scholarship will permit him to concentrate for the next two years on projects and research themes related to the convergence of the mass media and its effects on journalism. The Institute for Journalism at the University of Mainz was founded by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann and is considered amongst the most prestigious research centres in the sector throughout Germany.
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CONFERRAL OF DEGREES
52 new graduates in Informatics
From Russia to Peru, from India to Greece, and from the United States to Ticino. In total, the 52 graduates from the Faculty of Informatics hail from 16 countries. 9 of them graduate with a Bachelor degree, 29 with a Master, 7 with an Executive Master and 7 with a Ph.D. Last Tuesday they received their diplomas during the ceremony, which took place in the auditorium of the Lugano Campus. USI President Prof. Piero Martinoli, Dean of the Faculty of
Informatics Prof. Mauro Pezzè, and Director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (recently affiliated
with USI) Prof. Antonio Lanzavecchia participated in the ceremony.
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WORKSHOP
CMM'10 - Challenges in Embedded System Design. Involvement of SMEs in Designing Complex Systems
November 24th, 2010, the CMM'10
workshop organized with the collaboration of COMES Educational Project (a Nano-Tera Educational project) along with MULTICUBE and MADNESS (both FP7 projects) will be held on the Lugano Campus. Participants will explore challenges for SME’s in Embedded Systems Design, as well as optimal solutions to enable innovation in an increasingly complex environment. This event is coordinated by Mariagiovanna Sami (USI) Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL), and Cristina Silvano (Politecnico di Milano). The meeting will take place in Room SI-003, from 10.30am
to 12.30pm. More information.
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communication. Coordinated by Prof. Antonella Carassa, the afternoon workshop aims to investigate the impact of early mother-child relationship dynamics on cognitive, emotional and social development of the child. More information on the project is available in Focus on research, n. 01. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, November 24, at 3pm in room 250 (Lugano Campus).
- Awarding of
scholarships
from USImpresa. The scholarships are granted to each student who achieved the best grades in the first year of their respective Master, with the aim of promoting and incentivizing the excellence of USI students. The event will be held Tuesday, November 23 at 6pm in the auditorium (Lugano Campus). The bestowal of the scholarships will be preceded by the game “USI’s got Talent,” which will feature the USImpresa scholarship winners as the players.
- Interview Simulation to help USI students and graduates prepare themselves for entering the job market. The USI Career Service is organizing an afternoon featuring a simulation of the employee selection process, staged by real recruiting professionals. Wednesday, December
1,
Roberta Cattaneo, Head of Talent, Training and Development at RSI will take part in the event. Registration is required: please send a CV and motivation letter by Friday, November 26.
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From Adaptive Goals to Self-adaptive Service Compositions
Room A22, Lugano Campus - Tuesday, Nov. 23, 11am
Innovation and creativity in the world of Luxottica
Featuring Antonio Miyakaw, Head of Marketing, Style and Product for Luxottica Group.
Event organized by USI Career Service as part of the
On-Campus presentations program
Auditorium, Lugano Campus - Tuesday, Nov 23, 6pm
USImpresa scholarship ceremony
Auditorium, Lugano Campus - Wednesday, Nov. 24, 10.30am
CMM'10 workshop -
Comes Multicube Madness
Room
SI-003, Lugano Campus
- Wednesday, Nov. 24, 3pm
The importance of the early mother-child relationship and communication
Afternoon workshop coordinated by Prof. Antonella Carassa
Room 250, Lugano Campus - Thursday, Nov. 25, 6pm
Room A11, Lugano Campus
Etruscan painting
Featuring Benedetta Giorgi Pompilio. Event organized as part of the series “To the beginnings of art - paintings of the origins”
Auditorium, Lugano Campus - Thursday, Nov 25, 8pm
Architecture and memory, lecture by Miller & Maranta (Architects, Basil)
Aula Magna, Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio Campus |
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