24 April 2021

Elisa Seghetti, a member of Collegio Nuovo and co-founder of Entrepreneurship Club Pavia (E-Club Pavia for short) is bringing E-Club Pavia to the attention of Volta students and is inviting members of Volta them to the next Club event.

E-Club Pavia is a University group aiming to create a network of University students with a serious interest in entrepreneurship and is organising a meeting online on Thursday, the 29th of April at 7.30 pm in collaboration with the startup Thesis4U and the student group ImGestionale during which 4 startup companies will outline their ideas and business plans and will illustrate in the process how to 'pitch' such presentations.

Business inclined members of Collegio A Volta are welcome to join the E-Club Pavia event on Thursday 29th at the following url  https://thesisforyou.com/iscriviti-allevento-su-come-fare-il-pitch/.

The College expresses its gratitude to Elisa Seghetti for extending this invitation to the members of Volta.



11 April 2021

College will host a lecture entitled RNA Vaccines for Pandemic Threats. Promise of the technology and economic justice in its development to be given online at 6.00 pm on 22 April 2021 by 

George P Smith , Professor of Italian - Emeritus - and Fellow of St John’s College at Cambridge University. The lecture can be joined through this link.

George Smith is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouriwas born in Norwalk, Connecticut in the United States and made fundamental contributions fto the field of protein engineering by developing the phage display technology for which he was awarded a share of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. 

The poster of the lecture is available here and further information can be found on this page. All College students are warmly invited to join this major science lecture.

Image: A three dimensional model of a coronavirus (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC).



10 April 2021

College will host a major lecture on Dante Alighieri entitled: Ut Pictura Poesis & ut Poesis Pictura (subtitle: Simbiosi e interazioni tra Dante e i grandi artisti toscani all’epoca dei Comuni) to be given online at 6.00 pm on 15 April 2021 by 

Patrick Boyde, Professor of Italian - Emeritus - and Fellow of St John’s College at Cambridge University. The lecture can be joined through the following link.

Patrick Boyde is widely regarded as one of the major scholars of Dante’s work of all times.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and a Honorary Member of the American Dante Society.  He received the highest tribuets and prizes from the City of Florence (1995) and the Italian Presidency (1998 and 2004) for 'outstanding contributions to Italian culture'.

All College students are warmly invited to join this unique opportunity of hearing Patrick Boyde on Dante Alighieri.

The poster of the lecture is available here and further information can be found on this page. The video of lecture is available here.

Image: A portrait of Dante showing his Commedia (1456) by Domenico di Michelino based on a drawing of Alesso Baldovinetti. Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Firenze.



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