Lectie LIVE oferita de Tudorel Toader studentilor sai. Vezi unde a avut loc
Ministrul Justitiei, Tudorel Toader a vizitat, astazi, alaturi de studentii sai de la Facultatea de Drept din Iasi, mai multe institutii, printre care , CCR, Palatul Parlamentului, sediul Avocatului Poporului. Tudorel Toader a mentionat faptul ca este o ocazie pentru tinerii studenti sa vada institutiile „pe viu”.
„Sa ai sansa asta sa vezi institutiile pe viu. Astazi adjunctul Avocatului Poporului le-a vorbit o ora si ceva. Ieri la minister am luat absolventi de drept de la Iasi care sunt in minister si i-am pus pe o parte si pe studenti pe alta parte. Le-am vorbit eu cat le-am vorbit si i-am rugat pe absolventi sa le vorbeasca studentilor. (...) Eu sunt in vizita impreuna cu studentii de la Facultatea de drept din Iasi”, a declarat Tudorel Toader, astazi, la Palatul Parlamentului.
Pe de alta parte, studentii au afirmat ca aceasta vizita este necesara in demersul construirii unei cariere.
„Este un privilegiu pentru noi si mai mult de atat cu siguranta o sa ne ajute in cariera, ne formam si o perpectiva mai larga asupra acestui domeniu, un domeniu destul de vast am putea spune. Am vizitat si institutia Avocatul Poporului, am fost la Institutul de Criminologie, am trecut pe la minister, lucruri deosebite. Avem acest privilegiu de a fi in compania domnului profesor”, a completat un student.
O studenta a afirmat faptul ca Ministrul Justitiei, Tudorel Toader este „un om corect”.
„Corect, un om foarte corect in primul rand si acest fapt se reflecta in primul rand in note si in ce invatam. Domnul profesor Tudorel Toader este un profesor de urmat si domnul ministru Tudorel Toader este de asemenea un om de urmat”, a adaugat studenta.
In momentul in care, studentii au fost intrebati de catre presa daca profesorul Tudorel Toader i-a lasat vreodata cu restante, ministrul Justitiei a raspuns, in gluma: „Urmeaza”.
Publicație : Bună Ziua Iași
O cercetătoare din Italia, Doctor Honoris Causa al Universităţii Tehnice
Un reputat cercetător chimist din Italia a devenit, în cursul zilei de ieri, Doctor Honoris Causa al Universităţii Tehnice „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi (TUIASI). Titlul onorific a fost acordat conf. univ. dr. Silvia Fiore, de la Universitatea Politecnico di Torino, Italia, pentru merite deosebite aduse la dezvoltarea domeniului Ingineria Mediului.
Acordarea titlului onorific a fost votată în urma propunerii venite de la Facultatea de Inginerie Chimică şi Protecţia Mediului „Cristofor Simionescu” (FICPM), din comisia de decernare a distincţiei făcând parte prof. univ. dr. ing. Dan Caşcaval, rectorul TUIASI, prof. univ. dr. ing. Nicolae Hurduc, ministrul Cercetării Ştiinţifice, prof. univ. dr. ing. Carmen Teodosiu, de la TUIASI, prof. univ. dr. ing. Maria Gavrilescu, de la TUIASI, prof. univ. dr. habil. ing. Florica Manea de la Universitatea Politehnica Timişoara, prof. univ. dr. chim. Camelia Drăghici de la Universitatea Transilvania din Braşov şi prof. univ. dr. habil. Mircea Nicoară de la Universitatea „AIexandru Ioan Cuza” Iaşi.
„Sunt onorată să fiu aici, să primesc acest titlu de la prestigioasa dumneavoastră universitate. Mulţumesc că aţi fost răbdători şi vreau să spun din nou că sunt onorată să fiu aici cu o ocazie atât de importantă, un moment care va întări cooperarea noastră, ce sper ca în viitor să fie cât mai fructuoasă şi mai profitabilă pentru ambele noastre universităţi”, a precizat conf. univ. dr. Silvia Fiore în cadrul ceremoniei de ieri.
Conf. Dr. Silvia Fiore este cercetător, coordonatoarea laboratorului de Biorafinare şi economie circulară din cadrul departamentului DIATI, Politecnico di Torino. A publicat peste 140 lucrări şi studii ştiinţifice dintre care peste 51 lucrări ştiinţifice în reviste internaţionale cotate ISI din domeniul Ingineriei Mediului şi peste 80 lucrări în volumele conferinţelor internaţionale. Conf. Dr. Silvia Fiore este membră în comisia de evaluare din cadrul Ministerului Italian al Universităţilor şi Cercetării, expert evaluator al programelor de cercetare din cadrul Unităţii Executive pentru Finanţarea Învăţământului Superior, a Cercetării, Dezvoltării şi Inovării (UEFISCDI), membră a Comitetului Ştiinţific al proiectului H2020 Enerwater, precum şi „peer reviewer” pentru numeroase reviste internaţionale cotate ISI.
Publicație : Ziarul de Iași și Bună Ziua Iași
Facultatea de Economie şi Administrarea Afacerilor organizează între 13 și 17 aprilie Zielele Porților Deschise
Facultatea de Economie şi Administrarea Afacerilor organizează între 13 și 17 aprilie Zielele Porților Deschise.
Evenimentul este dedicat elevilor din clasele IX-XII, cu scopul de a se familiariza cu facultatea și activitățile acesteia.
Evenimentul face parte din proiectul „Iași, Orașul Studenției Tale – Porți Deschise la Universitățile Ieșene”, organizat de cele cinci universități publice din Iași, în parteneriat cu Primăria Municipiului Iași.
Publicație : Ziarul de Iași
Articles pulled after data fabrication in Cambridge DNA lab
Retractions in Nature and Science follow Abderrahmane Kaidi’s resignation from Bristol
Articles in Science and Nature have been retracted after it emerged that data had been faked in one of the world’s leading DNA laboratories.
Cancer biologist Abderrahmane Kaidi, who had already resigned from the University of Bristol after admitting making up experiments and fabricating data, has confessed to doing the same thing while he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. Dr Kaidi worked in the laboratory led by Steve Jackson, a world-leading DNA researcher, between 2007 and 2013, and Professor Jackson was named as a co-author on both of the papers that have been retracted.
A Cambridge spokeswoman said that Dr Kaidi had been investigated under the university’s misconduct in research policy.
“The investigation has upheld the allegations against Dr Kaidi, who has admitted misrepresentation and fabrication of data in two papers. Dr Kaidi has taken full and sole responsibility for these actions.
“The university’s investigation did not identify any concerns regarding any of Dr Kaidi’s co-authors on these papers. The journals concerned have been informed of the outcome of the university investigation.”
The Science paper, published in 2010, was titled “Human SIRT6 promotes DNA end resection through CtIP deacetylation”. The university said that it had concluded that “falsification of research data” had occurred.
The second retracted article – “KAT5m tyrosine phosphorylation couples chromatin sensing to ATM signalling” – was published in Nature in 2013. The retraction said that the paper had been withdrawn “to correct the scientific literature, owing to issues with figure presentation and underlying data. The authors cannot confirm the results in the affected figures and thus wish to retract the article in its entirety.”
Dr Kaidi resigned from Bristol last year after admitting “to having fabricated research data to convince a collaborator in another institution that certain experiments had taken place, when this was not the case”, the university said. At the time he was being investigated over his behaviour towards other members of his research group.
While none of Dr Kaidi’s collaborators at either Cambridge or Bristol were implicated in the data fabrication, the case has been seen as demonstrating that research misconduct can occur anywhere, even in the most prestigious laboratories which produce the most influential science.
“It can go on anywhere, for sure,” said John Hardy, chair of molecular biology of neurological disease at UCL.
Speaking generally, Simon Kolstoe, a senior lecturer and university ethics adviser at the University of Portsmouth, said that there might be particular temptation for early career researchers to commit misconduct in top-level laboratories owing to the pressure to “continually produce exciting and novel results”.
“There is significantly more pressure on researchers at ‘research-intensive’ institutions to come up with whizzy observations to support regular publications in high-impact journals that then lead to grant income,” Dr Kolstoe said. “Such institutions are really quick at getting rid of whole labs that they do not see continuing as high performers in favour of replacing them with new, younger, bright sparks who may flare and then disappear themselves.
“It’s a sad state of affairs because it ruins careers and leads to temptations to cheat. I’m convinced that this perverse incentive culture – and the commodification of novel results – within academia is mostly responsible for such misconduct.”
Publicație : The Times
Research must solve social problems, says top EU policymaker
Jean-Eric Paquet tells university heads that there is now a 'consensus' that research must help deliver sustainable development goals
One of the European Union’s top policymakers has warned universities that the bloc’s research priority is now solving current day economic and environmental challenges, rather than funding curiosity-driven inquiry.
Jean-Eric Paquet, director general of the European Commission’s research and innovation directorate, told university leaders in Paris: “This is not business as usual.”
The EU’s next €100 billion (£86 billion) research and innovation package, Horizon Europe, should replace the current Horizon 2020 deal from 2021.
To the concern of some universities, plans have tilted away from curiosity-driven research to back ideas designed to create immediate real-world impact, like a new European Innovation Council, which Brussels hopes will give European start-ups the financial muscle to compete with US and Chinese rivals.
Speaking at the annual conference of the European University Association, Mr Paquet said that asking “what research delivers for our societies” was “very much the direction of research policy”.
There was now a “consensus” that European research should focus on delivering the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, he said, a checklist of 17 aims including protecting biodiversity, making society fairer, and weaning the economy off burning through natural resources.
Horizon Europe will fund clusters of research into overlapping challenges – climate, energy and transport, for example – which need “cross-cutting” policies, he explained. “Solutions in any of these three fields require obviously to be anchored in solutions in the other two,” he said.
“This is not business as usual,” he said. “This is not the same groups of experts, or groups of stakeholders...from one framework programme to the other.”
“With the cross-cutting approach things will be very different,” Mr Paquet added.
But he was also keen to reassure university heads that traditional pillars of curiosity-driven research will stay as part of Horizon Europe, and were working well. “No worries, the European Research Council is still there,” he said, referring to a funder seen as giving researchers sizeable freedom and budgets to explore cutting edge topics.
Mr Paquet also criticised universities for being “much too complacent about the innovation divide in Europe”, referring to the gap between richer Western European countries and more peripheral ones in the east and south
Publicație : The Times
Australian research assessment captures flight to private cash
Skewed funding blunts government influence over what gets researched, expert warns
Australia’s research assessment exercise has tracked a shift from the public to the private purse as competitive grants from the Australian government play an ever shrinking role in funding university innovation.
The annual amounts obtained through peer-reviewed grants tumbled by A$236 million (£129 million), or 13 per cent, between 2014 and 2016, the reference period during which university research income was tallied for the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia exercise.
Revenue from cooperative research centres also fell by 13 per cent, removing A$15 million more from university coffers. Contributions from state and local governments and other public sources helped to fill the gap, rising by A$75 million.
But industry and international funders were left to do the heavy lifting, collectively providing A$217 million more in 2016 than in 2014. Private and philanthropic allocations grew by A$122 million. Competitive grants from international funders expanded by another A$52 million, while revenue from other overseas sources rose by A$53 million.
Grattan Institute analyst Andrew Norton said the ERA results, released in late March, highlighted the “already massive discrepancy” between government and private research funding. “And it’s only going to get larger,” he said.
Mr Norton said that figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that just A$4 billion of the A$11 billion spent on research in 2016 had come from federal funding streams specifically designed for that purpose. “It means universities are much more independent of government research policy than at any time previously,” he said.
In present-day dollar terms, competitive federal research funding had peaked in 2012, he said. “Even when it was growing, it would still have been shrinking as a share of total research spending because other areas were growing more quickly.”
Mr Norton said the prestige of the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council meant that plenty of academics would continue applying for competitive grants from those agencies. “But in terms of actual dollars, the steering power of the commonwealth must be going down. The big issue is, what influence does the commonwealth have?” he asked.
The ERA figures show that the amounts sourced through competitive Australian funding fell in almost all of the 22 broad fields of research between 2014 and 2016. The sole exception was built environment and design, in which peer-reviewed grants increased by 4 per cent.
Grant earnings declined by 37 per cent in commerce, management, tourism and services and by 33 per cent in law and legal studies. Both fields already attracted low levels of competitive funding.
Industry and international revenue rose in all fields except education, biology and built environment and design. Health and engineering research attracted increases of A$121 million and A$37 million, respectively, while non-government funding of information and computing science research almost doubled.
The executive director of the Innovative Research Universities mission group, Conor King, said it was becoming increasingly difficult for universities to maintain their income flows from competitive sources. Industry money was “not a zero sum”, but it tended to favour certain fields, he said.
The ERA figures do not include revenue from foreign students, whose tuition fees increasingly bankroll Australian university research.
“Universities who are research providers have also become research funders,” said Vicki Thomson, chief executive of the Group of Eight mission group. “This results not only in a distorted funding model but also a lack of transparency.”
Publicație : The Times
US public universities eye big move into online education
After the collapse of for-profit colleges, big state universities see need and opportunity
The whittling-down of the for-profit sector in US higher education is creating a lure – increasingly felt by bigger public institutions – to fill the void of online offerings catering to older career-oriented students.
So far just a handful of non-profit institutions, both public and private, have made major leaps into online. But large public universities are now taking harder looks, experts said, and appear best positioned to make big gains.
“They have some advantages of brand and price that we think will play pretty well in the market” for job-specific training, said Dennis Gephardt, an analyst specialising in higher education at Moody’s Investors Service.
Mr Gephardt and his team at Moody’s just finished an analysis aimed at assessing future growth in online university education following the rapid decline in the scandal-plagued for-profit sector.
It finds that online enrolment across the US continues to grow faster than on-campus enrolment. It also shows that private non-profit institutions are growing their online operations especially fast.
But, in raw numbers, public universities hold the largest share of online enrolment and the best chances to grow, Moody’s found. So even as public universities take a relatively cautious approach to new initiatives, their dominance in online is likely to continue.
One of the most recent to take the jump is the University of Massachusetts, which began this year a plan to expand from its current level of about 10,000 fully online students to 25,000 within five years and 40,000 within 10 years.
The president of the Massachusetts system, Marty Meehan, said in an annual state of the university speech last month that he felt compelled to act, given the number of out-of-state institutions – many of them public – that already were finding online customers within Massachusetts.
The nation’s six biggest online providers are all private, half of them for-profit, led by the University of Phoenix, with about 135,000 students. Among publics, the biggest is run by the University of Maryland, with about 44,000 students.
Perhaps most instructive for UMass officials is the growth of Southern New Hampshire University, just half an hour north of the Massachusetts border.
SNHU is a small regional private institution with only 3,000 students on campus. But it added the most online students of any US institution over the past five years, according to Moody’s data, to claim a total enrolment of about 90,000.
Among those enrolled online at SNHU, lamented Mr Meehan, a former Democratic congressman, were an estimated 15,000 Massachusetts residents. That loss looks even worse when considering how fast the region is losing its younger population. The six New England states have both the nation’s lowest fertility rate and its highest concentration of colleges, and are expected within seven years to produce as many as 54,000 fewer college-aged students, Mr Meehan said.
“The time for us to act is now,” he said in the speech, encouraged by data collected by UMass showing that most of the Massachusetts residents enrolled in SNHU’s online programmes would prefer UMass if it had similar offerings.
Experts at Moody’s, which assesses the current and future financial health of institutions, see public universities making similar calculations across the country.
Overall, Mr Gephardt said, the broad calculation being made by UMass – seeking to cover the loss of traditional-age college students with older workers who badly need retraining – made sense. “There are a lot of busy adults with some college and not a college degree, and that’s a growth opportunity for the sector,” he said.
Publicație : The Times
Des universités vont développer des maisons pour vivre sur Mars et sur la Lune
La Nasa vient de débourser 15 millions de dollars pour charger plusieurs universités américaines de développer des technologies nécessaires au maintien de la vie humaine sur la Lune et sur Mars.
Pourra-t-on bientôt s’installer sur Mars ou sur la Lune? Si la question est encore loin d’être résolue, la Nasa commence en tout cas à plancher sur le sujet. Comme l’a repéré Clubic.com, il y a quelques jours, l’agence spatiale américaine a annoncé qu’elle allait allouer 15 millions de dollars à deux nouveaux instituts de recherche en technologies spatiales (STRI) dirigés par des universités. Le but? Développer, entre autres, des maisons intelligentes et autonomes pour pouvoir vivre sur Mars ou sur la Lune.
La Nasa veut retourner sur la Lune
La Nasa a en effet récemment annoncé qu’elle souhaitait retourner sur la Lune d’ici 2024, et atterrir sur Mars d’ici 2033. Elle passe donc à la vitesse supérieure concernant la préparation de son programme lunaire. Il y a quelques jours, l’agence spatiale américaine a annoncé les gagnants d’un concours dont l’objectif était de concevoir, avec des logiciels de modélisation, des projets d’habitations sur Mars pouvant résister à des conditions extrêmes. La création de ces instituts va donc dans le même sens.
Parmi les établissements qui travailleront sur ce projet: l’université du Texas de San Antonio (UTSA), l’université Purdue, l’université du Connecticut ou encore Harvard. «Cette subvention permettra à l’UTSA et à ses étudiants de jouer un rôle clé dans la résolution du problème de l’habitat dans les espaces lointains, tout en établissant des partenariats avec les installations de la Nasa, les universités et les industries», a déclaré Arturo Montoya, professeur agrégé et responsable du département de génie civil et de génie mécanique à l’université du Texas.
Les missions lunaires pourraient débuter rapidement
Les deux instituts créés par la Nasa auront chacun des objectifs différents. Le premier, baptisé, «Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration», a été créé dans l’optique d’aider à concevoir des «habitats autonomes» grâce à la maintenance robotique, au «machine learning» et à la fabrication additive. Le second, appelé «Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute», aura pour principal objectif de concevoir des habitats résistants et qui peuvent s’adapter à des conditions extrêmes.
Publicație : Le Figaro
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