This year in Rome…

This Year in the MOVES Institute

The MOVES Institute’s mission is research, application, and education in the grand challenges of modeling, virtual environments, and simulation. Specialties are 3D visual simulation, networked virtual environments, computergenerated autonomy, human-performance engineering, immersive technologies, defense /entertainment collaboration, and evolving operational modeling.

Introduction. The Rome Foundation and Rome III.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the commentaries by Drs Kellow and Quigley on the pros and cons of the new Rome III criteria. Perhaps most of the readership is only familiar with these published diagnostic criteria. However, the Rome Foundation has a larger mission and directive to move the field of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders forward through research and educati...

Exhibiting in Rome

Vaccine tests to begin in Ebola countries this year.

Trials of two candidate Ebola vaccines have been fast tracked and will now begin in west Africa in December, the World Health Organization has said. A meeting of officials from the affected countries, donors, manufacturers, funding agencies, and civil society representatives met on 23 October and agreed that clinical trials could begin in December, bringing the trial start date forward a month....

When in Rome, reform

It was a hot autumn in Italy last year, and things show little sign of cooling down over the winter, at least, not politically. The final months of 2008 saw a wave of protests throughout Italy that were triggered by a government decree altering the procedures used to select academic staff. The decree, issued by Mariastella Gelmini, Italy’s Minister for Education, University and Research, is onl...