News for p3
May 26, 2020
Alexia Autenne, new General Administrator of UCLouvain
On October 1, Professor Alexia Autenne will succeed Dominique Opfergelt as General Administrator of UCLouvain.
Alexia Autenne is a Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology and a Research Associate at the FNRS. After studying at UCLouvain and the University Cambridge,...
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May 13, 2020
"Velcro" on cancer cells
To form metastases, cancer cells must be able to migrate. But cancer cells are connected to each other by ‘Velcro’. University of Louvain (UCLouvain) researchers have discovered that certain cancer cells manage to suppress this ‘Velcro’ effect so that they can migrate more...
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April 30, 2020
Extreme poverty: the crisis can be an opportunity
On 1 May, UCLouvain Faculty of Law Professor Olivier De Schutter begins a mandate as United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He served two consecutive terms as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, spanning from 2008 to 2014. He is...
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March 10, 2020
Circle U
Aarhus University and UCLouvain get acquainted
Circle U. universities are getting acquainted as part of building their European university project. A large delegation from the Aarhus University (AU) visited UCLouvain Friday 6 March.
AU Director Arnold Boon led his university’s managers of main departments: student affairs, research,...
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January 22, 2020
Doctorats honoris causa 2020. Sharing knowledge
On 4 February 2020, UCLouvain will honour Nuccio Ordine, Angélique Kidjo and François Taddei for their work in support of innovation, interdisciplinarity and inclusion. In doing so, UCLouvain will highlight the theme of sharing knowledge, which is ‘central to everything we do at UCLouvain’,...
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