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 meeting will take place on February, 2, 2017 at the Academy Library in Villa Torlonia. (more…)

The Academy is a partner of the X Edition of EcoLogicaCup, the first national on-line team competition on ecology for high school students. (more…)

The 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. (more…)

The 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. (more…)

This 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, 16^th, 2016. (more…)

The 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 to novices of the web. (more…)

Gilberto Artioli is professor of Mineralogy at the University of Padua. His research activity is dedicated to a large extent to the combined use of diffractometric and spectroscopic techniques for the study of complex natural and synthetic materials. (more…)

Mauro Ferrari, president of the Houston Methodist Research Institute (Texas, USA), PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University in California in Berkeley, is the founder of biomedical nano/micro-technology, with special attention to drug delivery and applications and to other innovative therapeutic modalities. (more…)

The International Association for Computational Mechanics (IAMC) Gauss Newton Congress Medal, the highest award given by IAMC, has been assigned to Academy member Bernhard Schrefler. (more…)

Carlo Doglioni, professor of Geodynamics at the Earth Sciences Department of Sapienza University of Rome, was nominated President of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV). (more…)