Dies Academicus 2016
Programme
Friday 3 June 2016 - 10:00 am - Amphimax UNIL - Sorge - Auditoire Erna Hamburger
Speeches by
- Mrs Carine Carvalho, President of the University Council
- Mrs Margherita Piacentini, Mr Francisco Da Cruz Sousa Martins, Co-Presidents of the Federation of Student Associations (FAE)
- Mrs Anne-Catherine Lyon, State Councillor, Head of the Department of Education, Youth and Culture of the Canton of Vaud
- Professor Dominique Arlettaz, Rector of the University
Honorary doctorates
- Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
Professor Corinne Bonnet - Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Professor John Levine - Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Professor J. Usha Raj
Lausanne University Prize
- Madam Kris Dejonckheere
Intermediate musical
- Orchestre symphonique et universitaire de Lausanne (OSUL),
Conductor: Hervé Klopfenstein
"Symphony n° 5" by Tchaïkovski: extracts - Choeur Universitaire de Lausanne,
Conducted by Fruzsina Szuromi
Piano accompaniment: Atena Carte
"Cum Sancto Spiritu", extract from Gioachino Rossini's "Petite messe solennelle"
The Dies Academicus 2016 video
University prizes and honorary doctorates
Professor Corinne Bonnet is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
Currently a professor at the University of Toulouse, Corinne Bonnet is also director of the PLH-ERASME team on the conservation of antiquities.
More info: Article from Uniscope no 614
Professor John Levine receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
John Levine is Professor of Social and Cognitive Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Learning and Development at the University of Pittsburgh
More info: Article from Uniscope no 614
Professor J. Usha Raj receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
Professor at the University of Illinois, Usha J. Raj has spent most of her career in the United States, in California and Chicago.
More info: Article from Uniscope no 614
Kris Dejonckheere is awarded the Prix de l'Université at the Dies academicus 2016.
Kris Dejonckheere has been UNICA's general secretary since 2001. Based in Brussels, the network links 46 universities in 35 European capitals.
More information: Article from Uniscope no 614