On the occasion of the opening of the nature trails at the Natural Reserve of Castelporziano, the meeting ‘The Ecosystems of the Presidential Estate in Castelporziano: a common heritage to be known and safeguarded’ proposes a story with multiple voices on the Estate biodiversity: the forests, the flora and fauna, an unicum in the Mediterranean. The…
DetailsThe Academy is a partner of the X Edition of EcoLogicaCup, the first national on-line team competition on ecology for high school students. The cup engages students and teachers in different gaming stages and represents a tool to support science teaching in schools. EcoLogicaCup is an initiative of the University of Salento and the Italian…
DetailsThe volume edited recently by the Academy collects the proceedings of the meeting organized in Milan on December 2-3, 2015 in the framework of the multi-annual project ‘Sciences and the Great War’ promoted by the Academy under the aegis of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The volume proposes an original investigation on the…
DetailsThe first collection of the correspondence of Amedeo Avogadro (August 9th, 1776 – July 9th, 1856), the famous scientist from Turin and Academy member, has been published by Marco Ciardi and Mariachiara Di Matteo in a volume edited by the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL. The volume presents a number of unedited…
DetailsThe Academy participates in ‘Itinercultura’ a joined initiative of the Latium Region and of the national and regional Cultural Institutions coordinated by the National Institute of Roman Studies (Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani), the project leader, which produced two innovative items for the general public, one addressed to nostalgics of printed paper and the other…
DetailsThis year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the National Group ‘Foundations and History of Chemistry’ (Gruppo Nazionale di Fondamenti e Storia della Chimica, GNFSC). On this occasion, a meeting will take place in the Academy Library on November, 16th, 2016. The Group was established on May 12th 1986, with the aim of…
DetailsThe engagement is for November 15th, 2016 when the second annual assembly of the Academy members will take place. After the welcome address of the President Emilia Chiancone at 10.30 am, the newly appointed members Carlo Barbante and Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza will give their induction talk. Carlo Barbante, professor of Analytical Chemistry at Ca’ Foscari…
Details‘The climate is changing. Food and agriculture are changing as well’ is the theme launched by FAO on the occasion of the World Food Day, on October 16th, 2016. The meeting, organized by the Academy and the Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences of the National Research Council (CNR) aims at contributing to…
DetailsThe engagement is for November 15th, 2016 when the second annual assembly of the Academy members will take place. After the welcome address of the President Emilia Chiancone at 10.30 am, the newly appointed members Carlo Barbante and Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza will give their induction talk. Carlo Barbante, professor of Analytical Chemistry at Ca’ Foscari…
DetailsThe opening ceremony of the 234th Academic Year will take place on May 5th 2016 at the seat of the Academic Library in Villa Torlonia. On this occasion, the Academy diplomas will be presented to the new Foreign Members prof. Mauro Ferrari e prof. Douglas C. Wallace and the 2016 Medals of the National Academy…
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