Doctor Honoris Causa Research Articles

Division IV Director Jozef Modelski receives Doctor Honoris Causa

Division IV Director Jozef Modelski receives Doctor Honoris Causa

Pioneering Neglected Disease Research in Southern Mexico at the “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi” Regional Research Center

The Autonomous University of Yucatan is a major public university in Mexico, and the largest institution for superior education in the southern part of the country, with 772 academics attending over 20,000 students. It offers 43 undergraduate and 53 graduate programs in all areas of knowledge. On October 12, 1975, Dr. Alberto Rosado G. Canton, rector of the University at this time, created the Biomedical Research Center to provide the institution with a leading facility to perform scientific medical research. The Center was named in honor of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, the famous Japanese scientist who worked on yellow fever in the region from 1918–1920 and received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the School of Medicine of the University in 1920. The Research Center initiated its activities with three departments: Tropical Pathology, headed by Dr. Jorge Zavala-Velazquez; Reproductive Health, headed by Dr. Thelma CetinaCanto; and Physiology, headed by Dr. Heriberto Arcila-Herrera. In 1976, the Center was strengthened by the incorporation of several researchers in social sciences, and renamed ‘‘Dr. Hideyo Noguchi’’ Regional Research Center. In 1987, it became organized in a Social Science and a Biomedical Unit, to accommodate wider research interests encompassing virology, microbiology, parasitology, reproductive health, human genetics, hematology, social medicine, neurosciences, regional development, Mayan identity and culture, and political and social processes. The department of Tropical Pathology initially pioneered some key research in Mexico and in the region in the area of tropical medicine and several neglected diseases. It also served as a seed for the training of several young researchers who contributed to the growth of the Research Center by becoming group leaders themselves in the following years, including Dr. Andrade-Narvaez, Dr. Puerto-Manzano, Dr. Farfan-Ale, and Dr. Barrera-Perez, and more recently Dr. Zavala-Castro, Dr. Garcia-Miss, Dr. Acosta-Vianna, and Dr. Vargas-Gonzalez, among others.

Faculty of Horticulture Cluj-Napoca: Celebrating 35 Years of Horticulture Higher Education

Although the Faculty of Horticulture from Cluj-Napoca was founded in 1977, the higher education in horticulture has a long and important tradition and history in Transylvania, Romania. It started in 1869, when the Agricultural Institute Cluj, Manastur (today, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca), one of the oldest higher education life sciences centres from East-Central Europe, was created. This ‘Agronomy Academia’ was established due to the efforts of the Transylvanian Agricultural Association and the Status Romano-Catholicus Transylvaniensis, which rented to the Ministry of Agriculture 400 ha of land and the buildings of an old Benedictine monastery near a city that can track its routes back into the Roman Empire. For more than 140 years, the efforts and the predecessors contribution have been creating an important higher education and research institution. In 2012, to celebrate 35 years of excellence, the Faculty Council organised a special event in ‘Aula Magna’ of the University, in November the 29th, 2012. It brought together special guests from partner institutions, forebears of the faculty, academic staff, students, graduates and members of the horticultural business, sustaining the Faculty’s new mission of being a catalyst for the horticulture education and research. On this occasion, the prestigious honorific title of Doctor Honoris Causa was granted for two academic personalities, related to the faculty: Jaime Prohens, from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and Ioan Vasile Abrudan, rector of the ‘Transylvania’ University from Brasov, Romania.

Recención libro "Law and revolution. The Formation of The Western Legal Tradition", de Harold J. Berman

Comentario del Profesor Mario Arnello al libro ""Law and revolution. The Formation of The Western Legal Tradition", de Harold J. Berman, Profesor Emérito de Harvard Law School, B.A. Darmouth College, 1938; M.A.1942, LL.B. 1947, Yale University; LL.D. Catholic University of America, 1991; D.H.L. Virginia Theological Seminary, 1995; Doctor honoris causa, University of Ghent, 1997; Doctor honoris causa,  Russian Academy of Sciences Law University, 2000.

Recención libro "Law and revolution. The Formation of The Western Legal Tradition", de Harold J. Berman

Comentario del Profesor Mario Arnello al libro and revolution. The Formation of The Western Legal Tradition, de Harold J. Berman, Profesor Emerito de Harvard Law School, B.A. Darmouth College, 1938; M.A.1942, LL.B. 1947, Yale University; LL.D. Catholic University of America, 1991; D.H.L. Virginia Theological Seminary, 1995; Doctor honoris causa, University of Ghent, 1997; Doctor honoris causa, Russian Academy of Sciences Law University, 2000.

The Cali Cancer Registry An example for Latin America

The Cali Cancer Registry was started 50 years ago as a research program of the Department of Pathology of Universidad del Va­lle. It is presently continuing its strong silent but meaningful work, internationally recognized as the oldest most trustworthy and reliable source of data on descriptive epidemiology in Latin Ame­rica. This is evidenced by the publication, of its results in “Cancer Incidence in Five Continents”, the most prestigious source of data on cancer incidence, since 1968 until the present time. Some population based cancer registries have started but had a prema­ture death in Latin America. Some had been too ambitious in co­vering too large populations or whole countries. Others have been unable to maintain its modest but much needed economic sup­port, reflecting the shortsightedness of national and international entities that provided the initial but not the continued funding. A few had followed the Cali Registry experience and have been able to survive economic difficulties experienced recently by some Latin American countries. Hopefully their initial success can be sustained and allow them to maintain is pioneering work. Such is the case of the Cancer Registry of Quito, operating very efficiently for 25 years, and the recently created Colombian Registries in Pas­to, Manizales and Bucaramanga. The principal and most reliable sources of data are the histopatho­logy reports. A first attempt to analyze data in a defined population was done in Medellin, when the Pathology Department of Univer­sidad de Antioquia, founded and directed by Alfredo Correa He­nao, represented the only source of histopathology diagnoses in the department of Antioquia. Such collection of data covered the years of 1944 to 1951 and was since the bases for publications in national and international journals. Later, in Cali, the histopatho­logy diagnoses of cancer made in the pathology departments of the country were collected and presented the Third Congress of the Latin American Society of Pathology in Medellin in 1961.1,2 Dr. Harold Stewart, head of the Department of pathology of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, was a special guest of the Society at the Congress. Dr. Stewart showed special interest in the data and brought them to William Haenszel, head of the Biometry Branch of the Institute. This was the beginning of a lasting and fructiferous association of Haenszel with the Cali Registry recognized by Universidad del Valle, which gave him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa.

CONVERSANDO CON ÁLVARO SIZA. El dibujo como liberación del espíritu

The University of Seville (Spain) celebrated, last october 24th, 2011, as Doctor Honoris Causa of that School, of the architect Alvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira (Matosinhos, 1933). For this occasion, a magnum event was organized at the University Main Hall, at the proposal of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (Technical College of Architecture), which was celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

Docencia e investigación en la Educación Superior: revisión crítica con Gimeno Sacristán

<p>José Gimeno Sacristán, pedagogo erudito, pensador crítico, es un adelantado a su tiempo, prueba de ello es que ha participado en los procesos de resignificación de la realidad educativa en el Estado español. Recientemente investido como Doctor Honoris Causa en las Universidades de San Luis (Argentina) y Málaga (España), ha sido profesor en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, en la de Salamanca y, desde 1981, en la de Valencia. Esta entrevista refleja su mirada crítica y reconstruye su biografía profesional. Las dimensiones tratadas nos permiten conocer sus inicios como docente, sus reflexiones sobre los referentes y principios que han participado en la definición de su pensamiento, sus análisis sobre las políticas y prácticas universitarias, sobre la investigación. También realiza una revisión histórica de la evolución del currículum en los estudios de educación en las Universidades españolas. En definitiva se trasladan sus ideas, sus creencias relativas al espacio universitario contextualizadas en su historia de vida.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

Once Again About Balts, Gudai, Goths and Their Origins

This paper aims to shed light on the tenacious tendency of would-be philologists and self-taught historians to embellish the history of the Lithuanian nation and its civilization by providing interpretations of ancient texts without real evidence. In particular, the authors review some methodological aspects of historical research in the work of the Lithuanian émigré J. Statkutė de Rosales, Europos šaknys ir mes, lietuviai (The Roots of Europe and We, the Lithuanians). This article points out that her claim that the Goths were the mighty ancestors of today’s Lithuanians derives from a macroscopic misinterpretation and alteration of the only existing text about the origin of the Goths, which is the late Latin Getica, written by Jordanes. Statkutė, who recently received a doctorate honoris causa, identifies the Goths with the ancient Lithuanians by comparing the word Gothi with the Lithuanian ethnonym gudai, and asserts that world historians have intentionally been duped for years by a few deceitful scholars into believing that the Goths originated in Scandinavia. Statkutė holds that the island of Scandza depicted by Jordanes should not be identified with Scandinavia at all, but with the Baltic coast from Eastern Poland to Lithuania.The authors of this paper examine the actual text of Jordanes both philologically and with cross-references to other authors, finding that Statkutė’s conclusions are extremely erroneous. Not only has the Latin text been incorrectly translated by Statkutė in more than one passage, but she has also kept silent – most probably on purpose – about some crucial information, thereby lending support to her theories. The identification of Scandza, the fatherland of the Goths according to Jordanes, with the Baltic coast has to be ruled out mainly by the fact that the Latin historian clearly describes the phenomena of the polar night and midnight sun as being typical of Northern Scandza. Statkutė’s approach to sources written in Latin also appears compromised, not only by leaving out relevant information, but also by her difficulty in understanding (and therefore translating) the texts as well. The authors of this paper point out several other misinterpretations of facts, which are presented in her book as more or less revolutionary findings. In addition, Statkutė’s arrogant accusations against distinguished scholars would be inappropriate even if she were correct in her assumptions. As a matter of fact, her sole merit today is the attempt to arouse Lithuanians’ interest in their own distant past.

LA PRAXIOLOGÍA MOTRIZ: PRESENTE, PASADO Y FUTURO. ENTREVISTA A PIERRE PARLEBAS

O presente texto apresenta uma entrevista com Pierre Parlebas, Doutor de Estado “Es lettres et sciences humaines” pela Université Paris V e pela Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidad de Lleida, España e Ex- Decano da Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Sorbonne, París. Neste diálogo com Jorge Ricardo Saraví se analizam problemáticas referentes à Praxiología Motriz enquanto Ciência da Ação Motriz, seus alcances e suas dificuldades para consolidar-se como conhecimento científico. Parlebas desenvolve uma ampla discussão com diversos autores e fundamentos teóricos que foram a base de suas investigações e publicações. Também lança um olhar retrospectivo a respeito das origens da Praxiología Motriz, assim como sua relação com a Educação Física e suas perspectivas futuras.

Nephrology: The Flywheel of Medicine During the Last 60 Years

Nephrology: The Flywheel of Medicine During the Last 60 Years

Ricardo Legorreta. An Architect in Search of Modernity within Tradition

Ricardo Legorreta is one of the Mexican contemporary architects who have garnered the most recognition; only in 2011 he was distinguished as Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, and the Praemium Imperiale in Japan. One year before, on August 27 at the docomomo Conference held in Mexico City, he gave a memorable Keynote Speech on the main figures of the Modern Movement in Mexico, José Villagrán and Luis Barragán, that the attendants treasured in their memories.

Ivan Djaja (Jean Giaja) and the Belgrade School of Physiology

The founder of physiology studies in the Balkans and the pioneer of research on hypothermia, Ivan Djaja (Jean Giaja) was born 1884 in L'Havre. Giaja gained his PhD at the Sorbonne in 1909. In 1910 he established the first Chair of Physiology in the Balkans and organized the first Serbian Institute for Physiology at the School of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. He led this Institute for more than 40 subsequent years. His most notable papers were in the field of thermoregulation and bioenergetics. Djaja became member of the Serbian and Croatian academies of science and doctor honoris causa of Sorbonne. In 1952 for the seminal work on the behavior of deep cooled warm blooded animals he became associate member of the National Medical Academy in Paris. In 1955 the French Academy of Sciences elected him as associate member in place of deceased Sir Alexander Fleming. Djaja died in 1957 during a congress held in his honor. He left more than 200 scientific and other papers and the golden DaVincian credo "Nulla dies sine experimento". His legacy was continued by several generations of researchers, the most prominent among them being Stefan Gelineo, Radoslav Andjus and Vojislav Petrović.

O lwowskich zbiorach Bolesława Orzechowicza

The article presents the life of Bolesław Orzechowicz (1847–1927), a man whodevoted his life to art and science. His merits for the society were recognized bygranting title of doctor honoris causa of Jan Kazimierz University and status –citizen of honour of Lviv. Among his main achievements should be mentionedfinacial support for Polish scientists and a donation of the valuable art collection forthe city of Lviv. The modern theories concerning legal cultural heritage protectionwere described in the light of the created by Bolesław Orzechowicz collection’shistory. Analysed case confirms, that there are three legal spheres (public, privateand internatonal), which determine the legal status of the cultural property. Thisleads to a conclusion, that the future EU, national or international legislator haveto take into account, that every new legal solution have to fit them all.

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Quando um gigante cai, os anões ficam sem sombra

Quando um gigante cai, os anões ficam sem sombra

Hans Georg von Schnering 1931–2010

Hans Georg von Schnering 1931–2010

Preface: Phys. Status Solidi C 5/2011

AbstractThis issue of physica status solidi contains 45 papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Growth of III‐Nitrides (ISGN 3). ISGN 3 follows the successful symposia, ISGN 1 held in Linköping, Sweden, 2006, and ISGN 2 held in Shuzenji, Japan, 2008. This conference, held July 4–7, 2010, in Montpellier, France, was organized by the National Centre of Scientific Research, University Montpellier 2 (UM2), the Institute of Physics at Montpellier, the Conseil Régional Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier Agglomération, the City of Montpellier, AIXTRON and SAFC Hitech.Professor Isamu Akasaki, Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Montpellier 2, was the Honorary Chair of ISGN 3.Group III nitrides are semiconductors developed at the very end of the twentieth century thanks to simultaneous advances in knowledge, industrial, technological and scientific fields, all of which are related to information technologies and concerned with energy saving. More than two decades have passed since the first successful operation of optical and electron devices based on group III nitrides. However, there are still many reports describing technological difficulties related to the fabrication of these devices. The purpose of ISGN 3 was to provide a forum for scientists and engineers from universities, government institutes and industry from around the world to meet and exchange their experiences and discuss their progress in all aspects of the crystal growth of group III nitrides. Montpellier was an ideal venue for hosting ISGN 3, because in 1999, it hosted at its Palace of Congress (le Corum), the Third International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors and the topically related International Symposium on Blue Lasers and Light Emitting Diodes in 2006, both of which had great success.We were delighted that the symposium was attended by 184 participants from as many as 20 countries in Asia, Europe, America and Africa. The program comprised a plenary talk [1] by Dr. S. V. Novikov, University of Nottingham, 20 invited talks, 36 oral presentations and 110 posters distributed in sessions on bulk growth, semipolar/nonpolar growth, nanostructure growth, crystalline defects and so forth. The in‐depth discussion at the symposium helped engender the belief that the fundamental understanding and improvement of crystal growth technologies will solve many problems related to group III nitride devices.Finally, we express our gratitude to the plenary and invited speakers and to all members who participated in this symposium. We take this opportunity to thank our colleagues of the Symposium Committee who acted as members of the International Advisory Committee and Program Committee as well as the referees. We are also grateful to the staff of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., for their careful attention to the preparation of this proceedings volume.The series of ISGN symposia will continue to be held in the future, reflecting the progress in the crystal growth techniques for the nitrides while maintaining the traditions of past symposia. We send our best wishes to Dr. Serguey Ivanov and to his colleagues the organizers of ISGN 4 in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2012 for a successful symposium (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

Goodbye Ted (An Obituary for Edward G. Jones)

the discipline, characterized by the use of axonal transport tracers. He became a true master of electron microscopy and of the immunocytochemical techniques required to visualize neurotransmitters and their receptors, and moved on to new techniques to study the expression of specific genes and transcription factors. Ted was always capable of using the newest tools to study his two preferred brain regions: the thalamus and cerebral cortex. He also had a special interest in studying the role of the thalamus in the coordination and regulation of cortical function associated with consciousness and perception, as was evident from his many studies into the anatomy, physiology and, recently, the pathology of the corticothalamo-cortical circuit. Ted’s demonstration that the cortico-thalamic system is organized as a means to synchronize the activities of thalamic and cortical neurons has been primordial to understanding the function of the thalamus. Thanks to him, we now know that the focalized corticothalamic axon originating in layer VI, along with diffuse axonal projection from layer V cortical neurons and the cells of the core and of the matrix of the dorsal thalamus, form a substrate for the synchronization of the disperse cortical and thalamic neurons populations during high frequency oscillations; we also know that these synchronizations underlie specific events of consciousness. We cannot end this brief summary of Ted’s main feats without mentioning his extraordinary work to categorize cortical neurons and his classification in function of their morphology, chemical characteristics, and connections, in which we had the great fortune to participate extensively. Ted is one of the most highly cited scientists of all the scientific areas, and his merits are recognized through a number of significant prizes and distinctions that he was awarded. He was invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Salamanca, he served as president of the Society for Neuroscience, and he was elected a member Goodbye Ted (an obituary for Edward G. Jones)

Broadband Challenges Acceptance Speech Presented at the Ceremony of Awarding Dr. Hamadoun Touré the Title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Wrocław University of Technology, Poland, 14 of September 2010

Broadband Challenges Acceptance Speech Presented at the Ceremony of Awarding Dr. Hamadoun Touré the Title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Wrocław University of Technology, Poland, 14 of September 2010