Students' Medical Care
The College has received several enquiries recently - especially from foreign students - about the provisions for medical care available to them. The University has collected this information on a dedicated web page entitled Medical Care for students of the University of Pavia that summarises the general care available to Italian and foreign students, provisions for dental care, advice on contraception and procedures to be followed in the case of a medical emergency.
College students are encouraged to study the information provided by the University and should contact the College Director if they need further advice,
Harvey Medical Society
The Harvey Meciical Society, the official students' body of the Harvey Medical Course of the University of Pavia, has organised a series of four films and discussions in the College lecture theatre. The series includes Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, 2008), Gadjo dilo (Tony Gatlif, 1997), la vie d' Adele (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) and Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1996).
The four films will be shown at 7.00 pm on the 17th and 24th of December and on the 1st and 8th of December All interested participants are welcome. The poster of the series can be downloaded here.
Carmelo Sgarlata
I am a medical doctor and currently a postgraduate medical trainee in Clinical Medicine. my work is actually focused on diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the area of internal medicine and geriatrics with particular regard to cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease. I’ve also a great interest in the use of diagnostic ultrasound in internal medicine. I studied Medicine at Volta as an undergraduate graduating in July 2012 then I remained in residence afterward as a resident in Geriatrics. I’ve been secretary of the Volta Medical Society throughout the academic year 2013/14. I’m author of about 60 scientific publications on national and international journals and speaker at various conferences of national importance.
2016/17
Seminars (All Medical Courses)
01. EKG: basic interpretation and clinical correlations. Focus on acute coronary syndromes. 09 June /2016
02. Bedside ultrasound in internal medicine. Acid-base balance: a practical approach to blood gas analysis. 25 November /2016
03. A Practical approach to blood gas analysis: technical execution and interpretation of clinical cases. 16 December 2017
04. Physical examination of the chest. 20 January /2017
05. Approach to adult patients with acute dyspnea: are there any news? Lung sonography. 20 January 2017
06. EKG: basic interpretation. 09 June /2017
Luca Teodori
I am a final year undergraduate in Physics from Urbino and a member of Collegio A Volta since October 2014. I am passionate about the subject I am reading at Pavia and especially interested in the theoretical side of Physics implications. I am accustomed therefore to use Mathematics extensively for my studies and keen to share Maths studies with younger members of the College. My supervisions in Algebra and Geometry are aimed primarily at College undergraduates in the Engineering but are open and will prove valuable to undergraduates in Physics and Maths as well. In them I will cover not only the linear algebra concepts from an abstract, mathematical point of view but visual demonstrations and applicatione. I will also devote an important part of my teaching to practical demonstrations and exercises..
2016/17
Geometria e Algebra Lineare (Ing Edile e Architettura, Ing Civile e Ambientale, Ing Elettronica e Informatica, Ing Industriale, Bioingegneria)
01. Generalità su spazi vettoriali, esempi, concetto di linearità, dimensionei
02. Geometria analitica: equazioni parametriche, cartesiane, esercizi
03. Determinanti, rango, teorema di Rouche-Capelli, esercizi
04. Sottospazi, formula di Grassman, somma diretta, esercizi
05. Applicazioni e sistemi lineari, teorema delle dimensioni
06. Cambiamenti di base e matrici associate
07. Il metodo di eliminazione di Gauss
08. Autovettori e autovalori
09. Applicazioni bilineari, congruenza, calcolo della segnatura
10. Teorema spettrale
11. Preparazione allo scritto
12. Preparazione all' orale
EDiSU Freshers' Evening
EDiSU, the governing body of Collegio A Volta and another 10 University Colleges in Pavia, has organised a Freshers' event on the 16th of November at 6.30 in the main University Hall (Aula Magna) in Strad Nuova. The event is aimed at Freshers who have been admitted to any of the EDiSU Colleges and will involve speeches by F Rugge (University Chancellor), P Benazzo (EDiSU President) and former students of EDiSU Colleges. Refreshements will follow the speeches.
All Freshers admitted to the 11 EDiSU University Colleges in September/October 2016 are warmly invited to attend, whether they are year 1 or higher year students. Collegio Volta has admitted nearly 60 Freshers this year and the College hopes that the vast majority of these students will attend the EDiSU event on November 16th,
Clubs & Societies 2016/17
In the last few weeks, the College has been very occupiped with the Supervision Programme, the English Courses and the new Personal Development Plans. It is now time to focus on the work of the all important Volta Clubs & Societies and I suggest the following meeting calendar in order to discuss the ideas and work that Volta students will put forward for the current academic year.
Volta Cross Country, Rowing, Rugby, VolleyBall, BasketBall, Football Clubs
Wednesday 9 November, 9.00 pm
Volta Medical Society
Wednesday 9 November, 9.30 pm
Volta Cine Club and Volta Art, Literature and Music Societies:
Thursday 10 November, 9.00 pm
Volta Science Society
Thursday 10 November, 9.30 pm
All meetings will be in the Board Room (adjacent to the College entrance hall and will move to the lecture theatre if the number of participants exceed the capacity of the board room.
Supervisions 2016/17
A first draft of College teaching - largely supervisions - for the academic year 2016/17 is available and can be downloaded here and the list is shown below. Further information about individual individual supervisors and supervisions including synopsis/handouts of each teaching session, can be found in the College web pages on undergraduate teaching. College undergraduates are reminded that the Volta supervision programme is exists in order to promote the success of their University studies and subsequent employment and that attendance is compulsory.
Semester 1
Analisi Matematica I (S Spinelli)
Alegebra lineare/Geometria e Algebra (L Teodori)
Chimica Generale e Inorganica (R Paroli)
Chimica Organica 2 (L Fruga)
Biochimica (Scienze) (R Cacciatore
Living Molecules (C Casale)
Fisiologia Umana (V Carini)
Semester 2
Fondamenti di Informatica (P Burda)
Fisica (A Barone)
Chimica Analitica (G Libertella)
Chimica Organica (M Invernici)
Genetica (MC Renna)
Biochmica (Medicina) (J Tintori)
Fisiologia Umana (I Grassi)
Semester 1 and 2
Clinical Seminars (C Sgarlata)
Personal Development Plans 2016/17
The College has produced a first draft of a template for encouraging Volta students to produce Personal Development Plans. The template can be visualised here in .pdf format and can be obtained directly from the College Director in .numbers, .xlsx, .xls, .doc and .pages formats. An example file from one of the UK Universities that require students to complete PDPs can be downloaded here.
I would like to develop the Volta template further together with students. I am asking therefore that all College students interested in taking this valuable step forward contact the College Director by email in order to work closely together at this project.
Study Plans 2016/17
A number of College students have reported problems in submitting their study plans by the 31st of October, as agreed during the General College Assembly of October 3rd. The College accepts the difficulty and requests students to submit by the end of November (half way in the semester for all facts and purposes).
Students do not need to wait for formal submission of the study plans, however, for setting in place a strong first semester exam session in which they clear all or the vast majority of the semester 1 examinations (almost invariably students who fail to secure the grades for confirmation of College placements do so as a result of their poor results in the examinations at the end of semester 1).
The College requests therefore that you submit a brief statement to College listing the exams that you are planning to sit at the end of semester 1 (January/February 2017) in order to anticipate and address upfrotnt potentail problems with exam performance and credit numbers. Please provide your statement in this form (in Italian) or in this one (in English) and return it the form to the College Director before the 6th of November 2016. Students who have already submitted their study plan need to take no further action.
Michele Invernici
I am a PhD student in Chemistry at the University of Pavia and work on a research project on molecular receptors and devices from macrocyclic chemistry. I offered supervision in General Chemistry at Collegio Volta in 2015/16 and I am supervising in Organic Chemistry in 2016/17.
2016/17
Chimica Organica 1 (Chimica, Chimica e Tecnologia Farmaceutica)
01. Introduzione I
02. Introduzione II
03. Risonanza
04. Stereochimica
05. Alcani
06. Sostituzione Nucleofila
07. Composti organometallici
08. Alcheni I
09. Alcheni II
10. Alchini
11. Areni
12. Aldeidi e chetoni
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Rosalia Cacciatore
I have an MSc degree in Experimental and Applied Biology and a BA degree in Biology both from the University of Pavia. I am currently training in the laboratory of Immunogenetics at San Matteo Hospital in Pavia and expect to enrol in the postgraduate school in Clinical Pathology and Biochemistry. I have offered College supervisions in Biochemistry for students of the Biology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering for the last two years. With my supervisions I aim enable students of Biology, Biotechnoogy and Bioengineering to achieve an in depth understanding of the subject of Biochemistry, help them solving practical problems and generally assist their academic progress through examinations. A more detailed list of supervision is available here. The list of main topics is below and each line is a link to a brief supervision synopsis/handout.
2016/17
Biochmica (Scienze Biologiche, Biotecnologie)
01. Aminoacidi e proteine: il legame peptidico, metodi di studio dei peptidi e delle proteine
02. L'organizzazione chimica della materia vivente: cardoidrati, lipidi
03. Proteine di trasporto dell'ossigeno: emoglobina e mioglobina
04. Gli enzimi: meccanismi catalitici, cinetica enzimatica, strategie di regolazione
05 Il metabolismo energetico: ciclo dell’acido citrico
06. Catena respiratoria e fosforilazione ossidativa
07. Metabolismo glucidico: la glicolisi
08. Gluconeogenesi
09. Metabolismo glicogeno
10. Shunt dei pentosi
11. Metabolismo lipidico: la beta-ossidazione e la biosintesi degli acidi grassi
12. Metabolismo delle proteine: transaminazione degli aminoacidi e sintesi dell'urea
2017/18
Biochmica (Scienze Biologiche, Biotecnologie)
01. Aminoacidi e lipidi
02. Biosintesi di aminoacidi e nucleotidi
03. Membrane biologiche
04. Carboidrati
05. Proteine e strutture proteiche
06. Mioglobina ed emoglobina
07. Enzimi
08. Metabolismo glucidico e sua regolazione
09. Privato deidrogenasi e ciclo di Krebs
10. Metabolismo lipidico
11. Metabolismo proteico
12. Transaminasi e ciclo dell'urea
13. Attendance
Jacopo Tintori
I am a 2nd year medical undergraduate enrolled in the Course taught in Italian and I made myself available for offering Biochemistry supervisions to 1st year students of the medical course taught in Italian.
2016/17
Biochimica (Medicina e Chirurgia in lingua Italiana)
01. Le basi molecolari degli enzimi
02. Bioenergetica e sue applicazioni metaboliche
03. Metabolismo dei carboidrati
04. Il destino del piruvato
05. Gli acidi grassi
06. Derivati dei lipidi
07. Fosforilazione ossidativa e amino acidi
08. Acidi nucleici e replicazione del DNA
09. Dal DNA all’ mRNA
10. Sintesi proteica. Trasportatori e canali
11. Trasduzione del segnale e biochimica della visione
12. Una visione d’ insieme
2017/18
Fisiologia Umana B (Medicina e Chirurgia in lingua Italiana)
01. Fisiologia cellulare
02. Sinapsi
03. Fisiologia del sistema neuroendocrino
04. Fisiologia delle secrezioni salivare e gastrica
05. Fisiologia delle secrezioni pancreatica, biliare e intestinale
06. Digestione e assorbimento
07. Termoregolazione, fame, pressione osmotica e sonno
08. Udito e sistema vestibolare, vista, udito, olfatto, gusto
09. Fisiologia renale
10. Regolazione dell'osmolarità dei liquidi dell'organismo
11. Autoregolazione della funzione renale
12. Modello per il trasporto di potassio
13. Attendance
Goliardia
There have been a number of media reports and debates recently about local events triggered by so-called goliardia, a traditional form of association of University students found at many Italian Universities.
The Directors of the 12 Colleges governed by EDiSU, which include Volta, have recently discussed this issue as a result of a number of incidents that unveiled goliardia as a grand name for College bullying and prevarication toward freshers. The Directors have also written a letter - in Italian - addressed to all students of EDiSU Colleges that can be downloaded here.
Alll members of Volta are asked to download this letter and read it most carefully.
Freshers' Party 2016/17
The College and the Volta Students' Union are happy to invite all College members at a Freshers' Party that will take place tomorrow evening, Monday the 17th of October, from 8.00 pm to 12.00 in the ground floor corridor of the South wing (the central area of the College, adjacent the Great Court).
The informal party is a way for existing College members to get to know the 66 new members who have joined Volta in the last few weeks. Snacks and drinks will be available and music will be available as well. All College members are warmly invited to attend.
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