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El último Consejo de Gobierno del curso académico 2009/2010 en la Universidad de Alicante ha decidido conceder el nombramiento de Doctor Honoris Causa a Ramón Pelegero Sanchís (Raimon) y a José Luis García Delgado que serán investidos el próximo curso, junto a Deborah Duen Ling Chung y Alan Loddon Yuille, cuya propuesta ya fue aprobada en el transcurso de un Consejo de Gobierno anterior.
Si estás en lista de espera en la Universidad de Alicante: El día 29 de julio se publicará la oferta de plazas vacantes. Los movimientos de lista son diarios. Si no te matriculas ese mismo día perderías la plaza, dado que tu plaza se ofertaría al día siguiente.
El rector de la Universidad de Alicante, Ignacio Jiménez Raneda y el vicerrector de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Manuel Palomar Sanz, han firmado esta mañana ante notario el acta de creación de la Fundación Parque Científico de Alicante - Comunidad Valenciana.
The Guide on 2010-2011 Degree Programmes and the Guide on Official Master's and Doctoral Programmes are two manuals prepared by the CRUE in collaboration with The Ministry of Education.
El Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas ha hecho público el informe Webometric, correspondiente al primer semestre del año 2010, en el que sitúa a la Web de la Universidad de Alicante en el 6º lugar del ranking de universidades españolas. A pesar de su tamaño medio, la Universidad de Alicante ha conseguido situarse a la cabeza de este ranking.
Francisco Rodríguez Reinoso, lecturer at the University of Alicante has been awarded by the American Carbon Society with a Prize given every three years for research works on this chemical element. He is the first Spanish scientists to be awarded this Prize.
The University of Alicante has experienced a relevant increase in the demand of new graduate titles for the academic year 2010/2011. This has been confirmed by the waiting lists in practically all the UA graduate programmes, still waiting for September applications.
The University of Alicante has submitted the adhesion document to the candidature of the Nobel Prize to the Foundation Vicente Ferrer, due to its committment "with the transformation process of one of the poorest areas in India, Anantapur, and of the most excluded communities, the dalits or untouchables, tribal groups and the members of the outcastes".
Results are expected to be published during the first fortnight of July, on the universities' and Valencian Department of Culture, Education and Science's notice boards. Therefore, the complaints lodged on the results should take the date of publication as reference.
The University of Alicante is researching the effects of marine species migration from the Red Sea -through the Suez Channel- on biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea This research project is being supervised by Alfonso Ramos, Professor at the University of Alicante, and developed in the South of Tunisia. The verifications made, point out that around 80 per cent of cases, species have been naturalized in the new area without being detrimental to indigenous species.
The research contributions and internationalization works on Chemistry carried out by Carmen Nájera, Professor at the University of Alicante, has been awarded with the biannual French-Spanish Prize awarded by the French Chemical Society. With this recognition, Nájera, becomes the first Spanish scientist to receive this Award.
On 5 July, the CRUE (Spain's Standing Conference of University Presidents) held its General Assembly at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where the University Presidents decided to appoint Ignacio Jiménez Raneda, President of the Universidad de Alicante, as the new President of the Spanish Universities' Communication Offices Network (REGACUE).
The University of Alicante's Summer Courses started on 14 June, full to capacity in several of the courses. The success of this edition is the general feeling of this year's programme; this is why the Office of the Vice President for Extracurricular Activities, responsible for the summer courses, has extended the number of admitted students to the courses and has announced that the registration period will be open up to the day previous to the starting of the courses, ¿unless otherwise stated because the course is full to its capacity¿.
A University of Alicante's team of reserachers have developed and patented an innovative procedure using polymeric foams (plastics) and recycling of thermostable foams for coating guardrails.
The University of Alicante and the Town Hall of Ibi will pay tribute to the distinguished Catalan biochemist Santiago Grisolía, with the celebration of the presentation ceremony of ¿El Jardín de las Culturas¿, at the Biological Station of Torretes
The University of Alicante and the Regional Ministry of Education will sign a collaboration agreement for the starting of a High Academic Performance Group, assigned to the new Graduate Programme in Computing Engineering, which will be taught at the Polytechnic University College from next September.
The 2nd edition of the University of Alicante's Master's Programme in Secondary Education starts on 13 September 2010, after the graduation of more than five hundred students during the 1st edition.
