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  Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: “Collegio Puteano” Foundation
Pietro Pietrini, delegate of the Rector of the University of Pisa
Franco Mosca, delegate of the Archbishop of Pisa
Dott.sa Rosa Dello Sbarba, delegate of the Province of Pisa;
www.sns.it /en/associazioni/puteano   (272 words)

  
  University of Pisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Pisa was officially established in 1343, although a number of scholars claim its origin dates back to the 11th century.
Pisa was one of the first European universities that could boast this papal attestation, which guaranteed the universal, legal value of its educational qualifications.
Pisa and its ‘Studium' underwent a period of crisis around the turn of the 15th century: the Florentines' conquering of the town ruined its economic and social life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Pisa   (1391 words)

  
 Pisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1113 Pisa and the Pope Paschal II set up, together with the count of Barcelona and other contingents from Provence and Italy (Genoese excluded), a war to free the Balearic Islands from the Moors: the queen and the king of Mallorca were brought in chains to Tuscany.
Pisa was the birthplace of the founder of modern physics, Galileo Galilei.
Pisa hosts the University of Pisa, especially renowed in the fields of Physics, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science, the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Italian academic élite institution, mostly for research and the education of graduate students.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pisa   (3657 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: University of Pisa
The Studium of Pisa is mentioned in the communal documents of 1340.
In 1473 Lorenzo de' Medici with Sixtus IV's approval closed the University of Florence and reopened Pisa.
In 1543 Cosimo de' Medici undertook to restore the university, and to this end Paul III made large concessions out of the revenues of the Church and monasteries.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12112a.htm   (784 words)

  
 University of Pisa
In 1543 Cosimo de' Medici undertook to restore the university, and to this end Paul III made large concessions out of the revenues of the Church and monasteries.
In 1851, for political reasons, the Universities of Pisa and Siena were united, the faculties of jurisprudence and theology located at Siena, and those of philosophy and medicine at Pisa.
Pisanæ (Pisa, 1791); DAL BORGO, Dissertazione epistolare sull' origine dell' univ. di Pisa (Pisa, 1765); CALISSE, Cenni storici sull' Università di Pisa in Annuario della Università di Pisa (1899-1900); BUONAMICI, Della scuola Pisana del diritto romano ecc.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/pisa,university_of.html   (737 words)

  
 Search Results for Pisa
In 1714 Grandi was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa.
In Pisa, Cavalieri was taught mathematics by Benedetto Castelli, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Pisa.
For example he was a visiting Professor at the University of Michigan during the summer of 1950, the University of Illinois during the winter of 1952, the University of California at Berkeley during the summer of 1955 and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in the spring of 1958.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Pisa&CONTEXT=1   (3351 words)

  
 University of Pisa Information: Pisa University Information, Campus and History, Italy
The University of Pisa currently has around 51,200 students, a teaching staff of nearly 20,000, an administrative staff of 1,600, 11 faculties, and 56 departments.
The University of Pisa is home to a number of facilities such as a sports centre and various libraries that are scattered in the university.
Overseas applicants for the University of Pisa may call the office of the Vice-Rector for International Relations at +39 050 2212175, or fax +39 050 42446, you may also e-mail them at e.giaccherini@unipi.it.
pisa.university-guides.com   (389 words)

  
 University of Pisa Purchases 500 Licenses Of SolidWorks Education Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
University of Pisa students will use SolidWorks in design and engineering courses as they pursue degrees in mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, and managerial engineering.
Pisa University is one of Italy's fastest-growing universities.
Pisa University considers itself a pioneer in the development of new learning processes.
www10.mcadcafe.com /nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=145620   (733 words)

  
 History of the University of Pisa
As early as the year 1000, Pisa's cultural vitality is attested by its relationships with the Islamic and Byzantine worlds and by personalities of the level of Buscheto, Burgundio and Leonardo Fibonacci.
In the sixties, a new university institution, the Scuola Superiore di Studi "Sant'Anna" was established, and during the same period, the University strengthened its ties with the National Research Council (CNR), whose Pisa branch is among the nation's most important.
Thus, the presence of the University and its students affects town life in all its institutional, political and social aspects, providing a rich and irreplaceable source of new ideas and vitality for the entire population.
www.pisaonline.it /PISA/unipi/e-storia.htm   (641 words)

  
 MULTIMEDIA EXPERIMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PISA: FROM VIDEOCONFERENCE TO RANDOM FRACTALS
The University of Pisa was infact the first Italian site to develop a WWW server (http://www.unipi.it) in the framework of the activities of the SERRA (SERvizio Reti Ateneo) project.
The SERRA staff of the University of Pisa is maintaining the first Italian Veronica and Archie server and one of the main Italian news server in collaboration with the Institute CNUCE of the National Research Council.
Stefano Giordano was born in Pisa in 1963.
www.isoc.org /HMP/PAPER/109/html/paper.html   (5499 words)

  
 Enrico Fermi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Fermi lectured in mathematical physics and mechanics at the University of Florence from 1924 to 1926.
He taught at the University of Rome for 12 years where he was the first professor of theoretical physics.
In 1938, Fermi was honored with the Nobel Prize "for his identification of new radioactive elements produced by neutron bombardment and his discovery, made in connection with this work, of nuclear reactions effected by slow neutrons." He traveled to Stockholm to receive this award.
www.newton.mec.edu /brown/te/INVENTORS/INVENTORS/byKIDS/lazewatsky.html   (174 words)

  
 Historical Background of the Tower of Pisa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Tower of Pisa was built to show the rest of the world the wealth of the city of Pisa.
The people of Pisa threw the key in the Arno River and the count and his family died of starvation.
And again the brave but unfortuned army of Pisa lost and that is the and of the history of Pisa.
www.endex.com /gf/buildings/ltpisa/ltphistory.html   (1034 words)

  
 LETT. GIORNALI
In 1951 Tristano Bolelli, full professor of glottology in Pisa University, felt the need to put in contact young students of different countries, after the dismal experience of World War II.
Pisa University will issue a Diploma to those students who pass the final exam.
If requested, the University will issue a Certificate of Attendance to those who decide not to sit the exam or those who don't pass the test but have attended 2/3 of the lessons.
www.humnet.unipi.it /linguistica/corsiit/Courses_English.htm   (1038 words)

  
 CoCreate | News & Events: Press Release
Pisa is one of Italy's oldest and most prestigious universities, with scientific giants such as Galileo Galilei and Enrico Fermi among its alumni.
Students at University of Pisa will use CoCreate's 2D and 3D CAD solutions, as well as Model Manager, a data management software that helps manage design data.
The University of Pisa is one of Italy's oldest and most prestigious universities.
www.cocreate.com /press_rel_detail.cfm?PressRel_ID=115   (613 words)

  
 University of Pisa Leans on Convera for Portal Search Solution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The site provides the university's faculty and 40,000 students with fast, accurate access to a database of over 7,000 multilingual archived documents, including class and exam schedules, university policies, job vacancies and research reports.
According to the University, providing information to its own students was proving to be a challenge for the communications department.
The University of Pisa now is planning to extend the portal to include an English language content version and to provide full access to the public over the Internet.
www.convera.com /Press/pr_090902.asp   (522 words)

  
 Quality Digest Magazine
However, few universities can claim greater praise for their alumni than Italy’s University of Pisa, a venerable institution that boasts scientific titans Galileo Galilei and Enrico Fermi among its alumni.
With a storied reputation to uphold, the University of Pisa must exercise a certain level of discrimination when selecting engineering software and other applications.
Students at the University of Pisa are using CoCreate’s OneSpace Designer Modeling program, a full-function 3-D modeling software application that uses dynamic modeling as its foundation.
www.qualitydigest.com /aug04/departments/02_app.shtml   (654 words)

  
 Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Teacher of Italian at the American High School and the University of Maryland, Pisa, Italy.Assistant to the professor of American Literature at the University of Pisa: language proficiency and the modern American novel.
By invitation of the President of the University of Bologna.
In addition to these major grants I was also the recipient of several University of Texas Research Leaves With Pay to conduct research in the State Archives of Bologna and the Vatican Library.
www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/frenchitalian/faculty/italianfaculty/wells1.html   (2121 words)

  
 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Research centers and laboratories
--> This center was founded in late 2001 at the Scuola Normale by three university institutions in Pisa: the University of Pisa, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the Scuola Normale Superiore.
--> The Laboratory has partnerships with the CNR of Pisa and with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Trieste (ICGEB).
More recently research on the influence of environment on the development of the nervous systems from the very first days of life has been added.
www.sns.it /en/laboratori/laboratoriscienze   (487 words)

  
 Galileo Galilei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He entered the University of Pisa in 1581 to study medicine.
In 1586 Galileo withdrew from the University of Pisa without a degree and headed back to live with his family.
Galileo had many influential friends who were able to help him gain an appointment as a lecturer of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1859 and then as the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua in 1592.
www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/galile.html   (414 words)

  
 SolidWorks Educational Press Releases
“The University of Pisa has a long history of teaching excellence, innovation, and leadership in the European academic community.
We are pleased that the University of Pisa has chosen to modernize their engineering program with the SolidWorks Education Edition, and we look forward to a long and dynamic relationship with its faculty and students.”
Pisa University is one of Italy 's fastest-growing universities.
www.solidworks.com /pages/products/edu/viewrelease.html?prid=225   (678 words)

  
 Personal profiles
Paola Favati received her laurea degree (magna cum laude) in Mathematics from the University of Pisa in the Academic Year 1981-82.
Rao Kosaraju of the Johns Hopkins University in the area of data compression algorithms.
Since 1994 she is a graduated student in Computer Science at the University of Pisa.
www.imc.pi.cnr.it /profiles.html   (1117 words)

  
 History of the University of Pisa
An eloquent testimony of this tradition is afforded by the great number of university professors of the University of Pisa and other Italian and foreign universities who are former students of the School.
The Sant'Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research of Pisa was set up in 1987 as a result of the merger of the School of University Studies and Doctoral Research with the Sant'Anna Conservatoire.
The Sant'Anna Conservatoire was instituted in 1785 for the education of young ladies, by Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine, on the premises of a thirteenth-century Benedictine cloister for nuns dedicated to St. Anne and the adjacent convent of St. Jerome, formerly occupied by the Gesuate Brothers (1471-1668).
www.pisaonline.it /PISA/unipi/e-santanna.htm   (533 words)

  
 PEN-INTERNATIONAL News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On 11 and 12 September 2002, a delegation from the University of L'Aquila and University of Pisa (Italy) conducted a study tour of PEN-International to learn about our programs and services.
University of L'Aquila currently is considering the establishment of a program for students who are deaf.
Roberto Ajello, Professor of Linguistics, University of Pisa
www.pen.ntid.rit.edu /newslevel2.php?a=italy_visit_2002   (112 words)

  
 Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site
Together with the original system at the University of Pisa (Italy), the new site guarantees availability even in case of network failures.
The two systems are kept aligned, but occasionally there could be a delay in the update of one of the two, in particular in case of network problems.
Steve left the University of Pisa at the end of 1999 to work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but he still keeps an eye on the project.
newton.dm.unipi.it /cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo   (966 words)

  
 Angelo Romano's home page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
I currently live in Pisa, Italy, because of my university studies at the local university (one of the most renowned in Italy and the first one to activate a Computer Science degree course in the entire country) begun in the 2000/2001 academic year.
I guess I'll be able to move away from my home university for August 2005, when I planned to make all my remaining exams in order to obtain a Master's Degree.
I participated and completed some courses at the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, during the Winter 2004 semester, as exchange student chosen for an international program sponsored by the University of Pisa’s Department of Computer Sciences.
www.cli.di.unipi.it /~aromano/en/cv.html   (546 words)

  
 SFBR Departments : Comparative Medicine: Research Staff CV
The aim of my current projects are to collect a wealth of data to fully utilize the baboon model in studies of development of stress response and anxiety, postpartum psychiatric disorders, infant abuse and neglect, reproductive neuroendocrinology, and complex socio-emotional and genetic problems such as the pervasive developmental disorders.
University of Pisa and Cagliari, Italy, Pisa and Cagliari, Italy
1998 - Nominated “Expert of the Field” in Biology at the Department of Ethology, Ecology and Evolution University of Pisa, Italy.
www.sfbr.org /pages/comparative_cv.php?u=1   (374 words)

  
 israelinsider: Views: Pisa: a left-leaning ivory tower of anti-Semitism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In my view, when universities refuse to teach students the difference between what is true and what is false this constitutes an abdication of intellectual and moral responsibility which renders democracy utterly vulnerable to barbarism.
According to my informant, the prominent Roman journalist, Anselma Dell'Olio, last week, Shai Cohen, an Israeli diplomat, was invited to give a talk to students at the University of Pisa, a venerable institution which was founded in 1343.
Concordia University in Montreal, the site of previous anti-Jewish riots, recently refused to allow former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speak; citing security risks, they previously did not allow former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak either.
web.israelinsider.com /views/4314.htm   (1021 words)

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