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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

Patrick Zaki

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

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