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A new app from Unimore that tracks the activity of fossil mammals and prevents riverbank collapses

As of today, the new ‘Burrow Tracker’ smartphone app, developed by Prof. Stefano Orlandini, Prof. Giovanni Moretti, Prof. Marco Redolfi and PhD students Simone Pizzileo, Prof. Riccardo Gasperoni and Prof. Rachit Soni, is available on Google Play (Android) and App Store (iOS). Stefano Orlandini, Giovanni Moretti, Marco Redolfi and PhD students Simone Pizzileo, Riccardo Gasperoni, and Rachit Soni of the Hydrology and Fluvial Morphodynamics Laboratory of the ‘Enzo Ferrari’ Department of Engineerin...

Three Unimore Professors awarded Emeritus status

Unimore awarded the title of ‘Professor Emeritus’ to three new lecturers. This prestigious recognition, established by a Royal Decree of 1933, is awarded to professors who, after leaving the service, have pursued an academic career as full professor for over twenty years and have excelled in their respective disciplines. During a solemn ceremony held in the Aula Magna of the Rector's Palace, Professors Paola Borella, formerly full professor at the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neur...

Unimore and Politecnico di Torino's patent receives special ‘Female Entrepreneurship’ award as part of the MIMIT Intellectual Property Award

On the 140th anniversary of the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (UIBM), the patent ‘ Additive Manufacturing Process and Product Obtainable through the Process ’, whose inventors are Prof. Elena Bassoli and Prof. Andrea Gatto of Unimore, together with Manuela Galati and Prof. Luca Iuliano of the Turin Polytechnic, received the special ‘Female Entrepreneurship’ award as part of the Intellectual Property Award (IPA) of the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy. This award is reserved for th...

Introduced the new Unimore Department Directors for the academic three-year period 2024-2027

Unimore presented the new Heads of Departments who will officially take office on 1 November 2024. The press conference was attended by the Magnificent Rector, Prof. Carlo Adolfo Porro, the Director General, Eng. Luca Chiantore, the outgoing President of the Conference of Directors, Prof. Lorenzo Bertucelli, together with the Directors-designate and other representatives of the University. With Law 240/2010, the figure of the Department Director assumed a central function in the organisatio...

Online October's FocusUnimore with a special feature on the University's 850th anniversary

Online the new issue of FocusUnimore celebrating the 850th anniversary of the University whose roots date back to 1175 when Pillio da Medicina founded a school of law in Modena. The University, which began as a centre of legal excellence, has developed over time to become a place of multidisciplinary growth: Health, Life, Science, Technology, Humanities. The strength of a university founded 850 years ago lies in its ability to renew itself. Over the years, Unimore has forged partnerships wit...

In 'The Lancet' an article by Prof. Dominici on the new drug naming system

Prof. Massimo Dominici, Professor of Medical Oncology at theUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia and, as of 1 November, Director of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Mother, Children, and Adults, recently published an article in the prestigious journal The Lancet concerning theWHO 's process of simplifying non-proprietary international names for cell- and gene-based drugs. The article entitled 'New WHO INN for cell-based and gene-based substances: timing, usage, and ...

Unimore inaugurates DIEF's new green area: a project for sustainability and biodiversity

On the afternoon of 22 October 2024, the inauguration took place of the new green area of the ‘Enzo Ferrari’ Department of Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, located in the courtyard of the Modena Technopole, in Via Pietro Vivarelli. The initiative was realised thanks to the support of the Fondazione di Modena, within the framework of the Bando Verde Comune 2023 (Municipal Green Grant 2023), intended for the redevelopment of public green areas and the creation of open...

For Unimore's 850th anniversary, a concert of 14th-century music at the Church of San Carlo

After the event dedicated to Bernardo Ramazzini, acknowledged today as the father of occupational medicine, the week kicking off the celebrations for the 850th anniversary of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia continues with the 14th-century music concert ‘Il Paradiso di Francesco - Un giardino cortese nella Firenze del Trecento’, performed by the medieval music ensemble laReverdie, on Thursday 24 October at 9 p.m., at the Church of San Carlo, in Modena. To contextualise the theme o...

Unimore's 850th anniversary celebrations kick off

Inaugurating the programme of events celebrating the 850th anniversary of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will be, on Wednesday 23 October, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Church of San Carlo in Modena, the public meeting with free participation ‘From Bernardino Ramazzini to the present and the future - a current message on Health, Safety at Work and the Environment’. The event aims to raise awareness of the legacy left behind by this great master of medicine, today recognised as the f...

Unimore leads DeepFake research with CoDE: the most advanced system to distinguish the real from the fake

DeepFakes, a term combining ‘Deep Learning’ and ‘Fake’, are images, videos and sounds generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence systems with such precision that they are difficult to distinguish from the real thing. For images, technologies such as StableDiffusion, MidJourney, DALL-E and many others are now within everyone's reach and allow the creation of artificial visual content, often used for industrial, medical, artistic or educational purposes, but also with the risk of manipu...