Volta Medical Society (VMES)

The Volta Medical Society (VMES) aims to promote discussions in College on any medical topic of broad interest. These may include specific advances in medical sciences that are of sufficient interest to be discussed or broad medical issues that have strong implications for society and for understanding the social basis of health and disease. The Volta Medical Society aims to achieve these goals with interviews, meetings and exhibitions with physicians, scientist and social scientists who have made significant contributions to modern health. The Society has organised numerous seminar series on topics of broad medical interest spanning from Ethics and Medicin, Infectious Diseases, Personalised Medicine as well several lectures from scientists who have made fundamental contributions to modern Medicine. 

The following students have enrolled in the VMES for the academic year 2021/22. Lorenzo Mancini and Luigi Sallustio
have agreed to act as Secretaries to the Society for this academic year.

Ramin    Alavi Houshmand
Amina    Amer
Ilaria    Campese
Davide    D'ambrosio
Ilham    El Ouizi
Giorgia    Fontana
Ali    Ghanbari
Federico    Ghirelli
Shamim    Joudakidinarvandi
Aida    Karimian
Maral    Kazemian
Ana    Kovic
Lorenzo    Mancini
Irene    Nicosia
Pinar    Olguner
Erica    Peria
Basma    Ragab
Serra    Sahin
Luigi    Sallustio
Angelica    Scarpellini
Iris M    Scholz
Arber    Selimi
Soheil    Shishehbor
Ines    Shopi
Ines    Skuqi
Andrea    Trabacca
Alessia    Traversa
Francesca     Veneziani
Maryam    Yazdani
Rossella M    Aiuto
Annalisa    Barone
Claudia    Cavaliere
Mustafa    Gultekin
Aisyah R    Laily
Lam V    Le
Xiaowei    Liu
Elena    Mariani
Ilaria    Petrizzi
Carolina    Piva
Arian    Sadeghi
Davide    Sogliani

Volta Literary Society (VLIS)

The Volta Literary Society (VLTS) aims to promote an interest in literature among Volta students, the majority of which read science, engineering or medicine. The scope of the Literary Society is literary work - Italian and foreign - including the work of major writers from North and South South, Africa, the Arab world, India, China and Japan. Informal College activities will include group readings and dicussion groups on specific authors and topics as well as essay and poetry competitions. More formal activities will include meetings and debates with individual authors, especially authors who have published recent work and are willing to explain it and discuss it with College students.

The students enrolled in the VLTS for the academic year 2021/22 are listed below. Francesca Veneziani has agreed to act as secretary to the Society for this academic year.

Amina    Amer
Michela    Cocchetti
Michele    Colombelli
Roberta    D'agostino
Aurora    Legittimo
Ines    Shopi
Michele    Songini
Alessia    Traversa
Stefany M    Vecchio
Francesca     Veneziani
Rossella M    Aiuto
Claudia C    Alfaro Contreras
Giacomo    Casucci
Agnese    Zambinelli

Volta Drama Society (VDRS)

The Volta Drama Society (VDRS) has produced several pieces in previous years including a beautiful and large production of the of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatr involving approximately twenty actors between College and a choir from Collegio Cairoli.

The College hopes that the VDRS can resume its work after the Covid pandemic and the following students have enrolled in the Society for the academic year 2021/22.  Federica    Paparella has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.

Amina    Amer
Beatrice    Cicchetti
Samuele    Di Cugno
Alisha    Gembali
Federica    Paparella
Odunayo D    Adeniyi
Gabriele    Adobati
Claudia C    Alfaro Contreras
Arianna    Armanetti

Volta Chinese Society (VCHS)

Over the last decade, the University of Pavia has actively pursued contacts and exchanges with several Chinese Universities and this has resulted in several schemes that bring each year Chinese undergraduate and graduate students to Pavia. The most advanced of such schemes is an MA Course in Construction Engineering and Architecture currently involving 15 students from the Tongji University of Shanghai who spend a full academic year at the University of Pavia, are registered with both Universities and secure a double award (a double degree) at the end of their Course. A number of these students live and work at Collegio Volta together with several visiting Chinese PhD students generally pursuing research in Science or Engineering. The Volta Chinese Society is a Society for Chinese studies, thus open to all members of the College regardless of origin. It aims to promote all aspects of Chinese culture at Volta, including the study of Chinese languages, culture, society, economics and foreign policy and will do so through meetings, discussions, films and documentaries. It will also engage in building further and direct links and students exchanges between the College and equivalent bodies at selected Chinese Universities.

Secretaries of the Volta Chinese Society:  2013/14 (vacant);  2014/15 (vacant).

Volta Arts Society (VARS)

Collegio Volta is located on the Science campus of the University of Pavia and currently has no students studying Art or History of Arts. The College therefore is seeking ways in which it may both attract such students and engage current students who read science, engineering and medicine in all areas of figurative Arts, including photography. The Volta Arts Society aims to promote meetings in College with painters, sculptors, photographers. It will also ctively encourage original work in these areas by College students through a variety of means, including Art classes and College competitions and will promote trips and visits to local galleries, such as the Accademia di Brera, as well as major other galleries or sites in Italy and abroad. 

The lstudents who enrolled in the VARS for the academic year 2021/22 are listed below. Maria Pia Longo has agreed to act as secretary to the Society for the current year.

Amina    Amer
Michela    Cocchetti
Davide    D'ambrosio
Lucrezia    Fontanari
Matteo    Lo Porto
Maria Pia    Longo
Pinar    Olguner
Federica    Paparella
Iris M    Scholz
Ines    Shopi
Alessia    Traversa
Giacomo    Casucci
Oday    Gharaba
Xiaowei    Liu
Tuba    Özcan
Ilaria    Petrizzi
Martina GRM    Soresi
Emma    Vedovati

Volta African Society (VAFS)

The College has a large number of students from Africa. The majority of them currently comes from Cameroon but the College aims to extend access to students from a number of other African countries. The Volta African Society is a Society for African Studies and as such is open to all Volta students, regardless of their origin although the College expects that all students of African origin will play a major role in it. The economical and social events that have defined the history of post-colonial Africa highlight huge contrasts and struggles. In the last three decades the world has witnessed the relentless spread of AIDS (more than one and half million people are currently killed by AIDS each year in the African continent) and other African catastrophes on the scale of the Rwandan genocide (a million people killed), the Sudanese civil war (two million people killed) and the famine in Somalia (a quarter of a million people dead). Yet, it is clear that large parts of Africa have witnessed social and political progress (the end of apartheid in South Africa is a notable example) as well as a degree of economic development. The Volta African Society aims to bring African language, literature, music, history and politics to College for discussion in order to inform and engage a number of College students on Africa. It also aims to identify funding schemes that may promote further academic links and exchanges between the University of Pavia and Universities in several African countries both at student's and lecturer's level.

 The students who enrolled in the VAFS for the academic year 2021/22 are listed below. Sara NY Mohamed has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.

Amina    Amer
Letizia     Rovertoni
Odunayo D    Adeniyi
Annalisa    Barone
Sara NY    Mohamed
Abimbola C    Ogunyele
Davide    Sogliani

Volta Tennis Club (VTEC)

The University of Pavia is ideally placed for developing tennis as a result of the fact that it has one of the highest proportion of resident students through its Collegiate system. Collegio Volta wishes to play a role in developing University tennis at Pavia and the Volta Tennis Club i(VTEC) s the instrument by which this role will be achieved. The College aims to build a tennis court as part of the development of the College grounds and, for the time being, Collegio G Cardano and L Valla have agreed to share their tennis courts with Volta students. The Volta Tennis Club will promote Tennis among College students by organising training, locating an indoor court that may enable practice during winter and promoting a College tournament as well an intercollegiate along the lines of the well established basketball, football and volleyball tournaments.

The following students enrolled in the VTEC for the academic year 2021/22.

Roberta    D'agostino
Lucrezia    Fontanari
Carlo     Galli
Matteo    Lo Porto
Maria Pia    Longo
Erica    Peria
Mana    Saeediniya
Luigi    Sallustio
Francesco    Zambrini
Giacomo    Casucci
Mustafa    Gultekin
Davide    Sogliani
Sharareh    Banihashemi
Hisham    Wazeer
Alain P    Peleu Ngate
Luisa    Tiebel

 


Volta Rugby Club (VRUC)

Italian rugby has undergone a major transformation over the last 25 years moving from a sport played by a handful of men in a couple of Italian cities to a sport that now counts teams in all major Italian cities and can attract crowds equal or bigger than the ones who attend football events. University rugby has had a major role in the transformation of Italian rugby and the University of Pavia has one of the finest rugby union teams in the country. Further, the rugby practice grounds of the University are within walking distance from Collegio Volta. There is a very strong basis, therefore, for the development of rugby at Volta and the College aims to see a first group of students joining the University rugby truing and squad in 2013/14. The Volta Rugby Club (VRUC) aims to promote this process by broadcasting classic matches and the matches of the Six Nations Championship, arranging meetings and visits to the College by top Italian rugby players by encouraging Volta students attending major rugby games taking place in Italy.

The following students expressed an interest in playing rugby during the academic year 2021/22. The College has not nominated a Club secretary for this academic year.

Ines    Shopi
Davide    Gianatti

 

Football remains the most popular sport at Volta. The College has fielded a boys' team for a number of years in the inter-collegiate tournament and, more recently, a girls' team as well. After initial disappointments, the performance of the two Volta football teams has grown in stature and Volta is now a strong challenger in football events in Pavia. The aim of the Volta Football Club (VFBC) is twofold: the first is to preserve and strengthen the interest of current and future students in College football and the second one is to address and discuss critically modern football. The organisation and huge financial interests underpinning the contemporary world of the 'most beautiful game' have transformed a gentleman's sport in a global business open, in many countries including Italy, to regular abuses and widespread corruption. The Volta Football Club aims to debate these issues by inviting key figures from the world of professional football and encouraging an open debate about the role that football plays in youth culture and in society in general.

 The following students enrolled in the VFBC for the academic year 2021/22. Riccardo Pilia and Annalisa Barone agreed to act as Club Secretaries for the Boy's and Girl's teams respectively.

Gabriele    Acquaviva
Leonardo    Beretta
Carmen L    Cardone
Carlo     Galli
Oussama    Harti
Matteo    Lo Porto
Nicola    Loizzo
Riccardo    Pilia
Luigi    Sallustio
Loic L    Satchie Satchie
Soheil    Shishehbor
Ines    Shopi
Andrea    Trabacca
Agnese    Zambinelli
Odunayo D    Adeniyi
Mehdi    Alipour Masoumabad
Sharareh    Banihashemi
Annalisa    Barone
Adnane    Boumaiza
Giacomo    Casucci
Farhad    Ekramitalab
Davide    Gianatti
Antonio    Tescari
Ragip S    Yilmaz

Students Committees 2012/13

General elections have been held in the week starting on 15th October 2012 resulting in the following students being elected to the VSU executive, the Library Committee and the Sports Committee. The Committees have taken up their role in College on 19 October 2012. The major students' body is the executive of the Volta Students' Union (four member strong, in line with general EDiSU rules on students' representation). Several informal working committees (House, Library and Sport) have also been instituted in order to widen students' participation to College life.

 

Volta Students' Union Executive

Name: Marco Russo
Course: Physics, Year 2

Name: Giorgio Badessi
Course: Medicine, Year 2

Name: Andrea Grieco
Course:Law, Year 3

Nem: Dario Bonaretti
Course: Economics, Year 1 (MSc)

 

Addtional Committees

Library Committee:
Luana Biondo, Chiara Francioso, Simone Manieri, Jacopo Milesi

Sports Committee:
Marco Bonanno, Michele Vece

 

 

 

 

 

 

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