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December 11, 2017
2018 UCL honorary doctorate recipients
On 5-6 February 2018, UCL will award honorary doctorates to three individuals: edX CEO Anant Agarwal, Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker, and Sorbonne Professor and Humanum Chair Moulad Doueihi. What do they have in common? A powerful vision of how digital technology, particularly open...
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December 07, 2017
When the university says goodbye to its international...
One hundred and fifty international students, representing 23 nationalities, were received at the Halles universitaires on Tuesday 5 December. They had been invited by the Pro-Rector for International Affairs Professor Dana Samson and Pro-Rector for Alumni Professor Marc Francaux.
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December 07, 2017
Syria : rise of air bombardments fatal for children
UCL Research - press release
In 2016, one in four civilians killed in the Syrian conflict was a child. A team of researchers at the UCL Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters analyzed data about more than 140,000 violent deaths between 2011 and 2016 in areas not controlled...
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December 06, 2017
Digital technology serving humanity
The Louvain Foundation’s end-of-year fundraising campaign, launched on 5 December, supports cancer research. The COALESCENS project proposal, submitted by Professor Daniele Catanzaro (LSM-CORE), was chosen by the foundation’s scientific committee. The project is vital to developing personalised...
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December 04, 2017
ERC Consolidator: two grants for UCL
Alexandru Vlad (IMCN) and Guido Bommer (de Duve Institute) were each awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million over five years in support of their research.
The European Research Council offers a range of funding mechanisms including the Consolidator Grant, a very prestigious programme...
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