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U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission
The U.S.- Italy Fulbright Commission is a bi-national, non-profit organization promoting opportunities for study, research, and teaching in Italy and the United States through competitive, merit-based grants. Since 1948, the commission acts as executor of the Fulbright Program to and from Italy. The U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission Created in 1948, the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission is one of 50 bi-national organizations responsible for overseeing the international collaboration of the Fulbright Program, one of the most well-known and prestigious scholarship programs in the world. The commission is governed by a Board of twelve members: six US members, nominated by the United States Ambassador to Italy, and six Italian members, nominated by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the United States Ambassador to Italy are honorary presidents of the commission. The United States Department of State, the Bureau of Educational and Cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Bajada
Emilio Baiada (January 12, 1914 in Tunis – May 14, 1984 in Modena) was an Italian mathematician. Education and career He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he graduated with highest honors in June 1937 along with Leonida Tonelli, with whom he worked as an assistant from 1938 to 1941, when he left for the war. In 1945 he began to teach analysis, theory of functions, calculus and rational mechanics at the Scuola Normale. In 1948 he obtained a degree in Analysis; his Ph.D. thesis was written under the direction of Tonelli and Marston Morse. In 1949 he moved first to University of Cincinnati, where he worked with scientists like Otto Szász and Charles Napoleon Moore, and then to Princeton University, where he worked with Morse. In 1952 he obtained the chair of analysis of the University of Palermo, where he taught until 1961 before transferring to the University of Modena The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia ( it, Università degli Studi di Modena e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Calvo-Platero
Mario Calvo-Platero (born April 26, 1954) is an Italian journalist who has been the US editor of the prestigious Italian newspaper ''Il Sole 24 Ore'' for over 30 years up to 2017. Now he is a columnist for La Stampa. He obtained the U.S. citizenship. Biography He was born and lived in Tripoli until 1967. He studied Economics at the University of Turin and later International Affairs at Columbia University. He has worked at the United Nations, dealing with research on transnational banks, and at a bank in New York. Having moved to the United States in 1978, he started writing for La Stampa that same year. It was in 1979 that he finally became a correspondent for Il Sole 24 Ore. He eventually moved on to found the American editorial of Il Sole 24 Ore as well as creating Economic & Management Consultants Inc. (EMC Inc.) in 1982, which provides journalistic services in real time. He also created ''Review Italy'', a newsletter written in English on Italian economics and business. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Calvani
Sandro Calvani (born 1952), is the Senior Adviser on Strategic Planning for the Mae Fah Luang Foundation (under Royal Patronage), Bangkok, Thailand. He dedicated his entire professional life to studying innovation, creativity, the effective methods of change management, conflict management and prevention. In countries where he worked, Calvani has given priority to strengthen freedom and justice that he considers the two greatest expressions of individual rights and collective rights. Career Calvani began his professional career in 1976 at the University of Genoa, Italy, as a young researcher affiliated with the National Research Council, engaged with extra-nuclear genetics studies of single-celled organisms. In 1978 he was one of the youngest winners of a Fulbright Hays scholarship to advance his studies at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. During his work as a visiting scientist at the Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, CSU, he became interested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabetta Brusa
Elisabetta Olga Laura Brusa (born 3 April 1954) is an Italian composer naturalised British. Brusa was born in Milan, and as a child wrote 32 piano pieces. At the Milan Conservatory she formally studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli (who also taught famous Italian conductors like Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti) and Azio Corghi, graduating in 1980. She then taught Composition at the Conservatorios of Vicenza, Mantova and Brescia before arriving at the Conservatorio of Milan in 1985. She also received instruction from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Hans Keller. She first appeared on the ''Young Italian Composers'' RAI 3 television programme in 1983.''International Who's Who in Classical Music'', 21st Ed. London: Europa Publications Limited (2005): 117 After winning first prize at the Washington International Competition for Composition for String Quartet in 1982, she was awarded the Fromm Music Foundation Fellowship and a Fellowship of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liana Burgess
Liana Burgess (born Liliana Macellari, September 25, 1929 – December 3, 2007) was an Italian translator and literary agent who was the second wife of English writer Anthony Burgess. Burgess and Macellari had embarked on an affair while Burgess was married to his first wife, and Macellari gave birth to a son nine months after their meeting. The couple became tax exiles in the late 1960s, living in Malta and Italy, and spent several years in the United States. They finally settled in Monaco. Macellari played an important role in Burgess's later literary career, negotiating film rights and acting as his European literary agent, and translating his novels. Academic life Macellari was born in Porto Civitanova, Italy, in 1929. Her mother was an amateur poet and artist, Contessa Maria Lucrezia Pasi della Pergola, and her father was Gilberto Macellari, a photographer and actor. Her father died in the Second World War. Macellari had a sister who was later killed in a mountaineering accident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Bugliesi
Michele Bugliesi (born in Udine in 1962) is Full Professor in Computer Science in the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He has been elected Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ... of this University for the mandate 2014-2015 to 2019-2020. Scientific activity Michele Bugliesi works on analysis and formal systems in informatics, with publications on models of communications and logic programming. References Living people Date of birth missing (living people) 1962 births People from Udine Academic staff of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice Italian computer scientists {{Italy-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaetano Borriello
Gaetano Borriello (1958–2015) was an American computer scientist and researcher in ubiquitous computing. He is known for starting the Open Data Kit project and as the founding director of Intel Research Seattle. ThPlace Labproject he led at Intel Research using Wi-Fi to enhance location sensing is now the dominant approach in use by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others. Borriello was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2009 "for the design, realization, and integration of embedded and ubiquitous computing systems" and of the IEEE in 2010 "for contributions to embedded computing devices and systems." He was also a Fulbright Scholar. Borriello was on the University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ... computer science faculty from 1988 until his death – 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Boitani
Piero Boitani (born 1947) is an Italian literary critic. Life Born in Rome, Boitani received his Ph.D. from Cambridge while teaching there and has taught in the University of Pescara and University of Perugia. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome and has taught at the Gregorian University and at the University of Italian Switzerland. He was the President of the European Society for English Studies from 1989 to 1995 (now Founding President), as well as becoming a Fellow of the British Academy, the Accademia dei Lincei, the Academia Europaea, the Polish Academy of Arts, the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, the Accademia dell’Arcadia, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Dante Society of America. In 2002 he received from the Accademia dei Lincei the Feltrinelli Prize for literary criticism, in 2010 the De Sanctis Prize, and in 2016 the Balzan Prize for Comparative Literature. He is the literary editor of the Greek and La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Boitani
Luigi Boitani (born April 2, 1946, in Rome) is a professor of zoology at the Sapienza University of Rome, whose research interests include ecology, the protection of large mammals, and the management of protected areas. Boitani is president of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe. Life and work Boitani is a professor of conservation biology and animal ecology and was head of the Department of Zoology and Human Biology at the Sapienza University of Rome until it was merged with other departments in 2010 to form the Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin. Since 1973, he has devoted himself to the ecology and protection of wolves. He has developed more than 30 management plans for various national parks. Boitani is active in the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union ( IUCN) since 1996; he has been a member of its presidium since 2002; and chairman of its group of specialists of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe. He has worked in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remo Bodei
Remo Bodei (3 August 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also had taught at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Bodei was born in Cagliari. His initial interests were in classical German philosophy, and the Weimar Classicism period (1770–1830). He subsequently penned over 200 papers on utopian thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and contemporary political thought. He died in Pisa, aged 81. He has been member of the Contemporary Centre of Arts founded by Menotti Lerro. He won the Cilento Poetry Prize for criticism in 2020 (posthumous). Works His books include the following volumes: *''Sistema ed epoca in Hegel'' (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1975. Reprinted 2014 with the title ''La civetta e la talpa. Sistema ed epoca in Hegel'') *''Hegel e Weber. Egemonia e legittimazione'' (Bari, De Donato, 1977) (with Franco Cassano) *''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Biocca
Dario Biocca teaches European history at the University of Perugia, Italy and has been Coordinatore at Scuola di giornalismo Radiotelevisivo (Perugia). He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught at various institutions in the US and Italy. He is currently at UC Berkeley teaching a course on "Walls: Separation and Integration" and 20th Century Italy. Biocca has published: *"Ignazio Silone, ''La Doppia Vita di un Italiano''", Rizzoli 2005; *"''L'Informatore. Silone, i Comunisti e la Polizia''", Luni 2000; with Mauro Canali Mauro Canali is a full professor of contemporary history at the University of Camerino in Italy. He is considered to be one of the most important scholars of the events leading to the crisis of the liberal Italian state and the rise of fascism. He ... Mauro Canali da Wikipedia italiana] *"''A Matter of Passion. Selected Letters of Bernard Berenson and Clotilde Marghieri''", Berkeley and Los Angeles 1989. *"Il Muro di Belfast"—An as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
