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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to be awarded the Honoris Causa degree of the University of Bologna

Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO and Chairman of Google, will be awarded the Honoris Causa Degree in Business Management, on September 10, during the Graduation ceremony of Bologna Business School. The event will take place in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. More than 1,500 participants in BBS Master's programs will receive their diploma, in the presence of the Rector Francesco Ubertini, the Dean Massimo Bergami, and the President of BBS Romano Prodi

University of Bologna: COVID-19 Green Pass

As per the Decree-Law number 111, issued on the 6th of August 2021, from September 1st, university staff members and students must have a green pass and show it on the premises

Oldest fossils of methane-cycling microbes expand frontiers of habitability on early Earth

Found in South Africa, this is the oldest evidence for this type of life: the discovery expand the frontiers of potentially habitable environments on the early Earth, as well as other planets such as Mars

Ground-breaking teaching materials for improving the job prospects of language and linguistics graduates

As a partner of the UPSKILLS project, the University of Bologna will develop new teaching materials, including educational games, to enhance the soft as well as technology-related skills of students in languages, linguistics and translation

Open Science and research facilities: Unibo joins ICDI

Besides participating in the national forum on behalf of the Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure, the University of Bologna also applied to be part of EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)

Umberto Eco's library at Unibo

More than 40,000 books, notes and documents of Umberto Eco will find a new location in Bologna University Library (BUB). A space specifically designed to recreate the atmosphere of Eco's Modern Library will host the collection once belonged to this great mentor, semiologist and Unibo professor

Thinking of Patrick

The Rector of the University of Bologna, Francesco Ubertini, shared with the entire academic community this message addressed to Patrick Zaki who is spending his birthday in prison for the second year in a row.

Unibo's podcasts are on Spreaker!

The University of Bologna launches its new channel with three podcasts to disseminate research, history, culture, illustrious figures and our students' voices through interviews and conversations

A new version of the Magna Charta Universitatum

"University values and responsibilities: responding to the challenges of the future" - this is the title of the two-day event that will end with the launch and signatory ceremony of the 2020 Magna Charta Universitatum (MCU), asking universities to commit to new values and future challenges

QS International Rankings: the University of Bologna reaches positions 19 in Europe and 71 worldwide in Academic Reputation

In the QS World University Rankings 2022, the University of Bologna gets to position 68 in Europe and 166 in the world. Once again, Unibo sits in the top 1% of the best universities worldwide

"Listening" to cancers to perform diagnoses and develop treatment plans

A research group led by Unibo scholars developed an innovative system that can pinpoint and eliminate tumour cells with unprecedented precision by exploiting an optoacoustic effect

Moral disgust has a "bad taste"

Witnessing shared moral norms being disrespected inhibits the neurons responsible for controlling our tongue, a reaction similar to the one we have when we taste something unpleasant. This is what emerges from a study led by the University of Bologna and the University of Messina. This work received the "Best Paper Prize 2021" during the XII International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics

Bologna and robots: the Smart City Robotics Challenge is coming up

Bologna will host the international competition that will test the skills of the most advanced robotic applications in several contexts: from waitressing robots to first aid ones

"Mexican variant" and monitoring actions of SARS-CoV-2 genome

It has recently become prominent in Mexico and, similarly to other variants, presents a mutation in the Spike protein of the coronavirus. The “Mexican variant” was identified by a research group of the University of Bologna

Mechanics of the infinitely small: NanoGear, towards a molecular gear

Oscillatory and rotational motions of different parts are combined in a newly conceived artificial molecule, paving the way for the construction of devices capable of transforming and transmitting movements on the nanometer scale

In the historical region of Mesopotamia, climate crises prompted the first stable forms of State

In the medium and long-term periods, climate shocks favoured cooperation among diverse groups of people. Indeed, by enlarging access to political and property rights, elites who had decision-making powers could work with other groups who held the skills and tools to overcome those crises

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