Prosper takes the tram

Did you know they do things differently in Europe?

August 28th 2014
My first night here, Thursday, I tried to go get dinner at some of the restaurants suggested by the HR office, around 5 PM, only to find that both were closed until 6 or 7. Fortunately, a small cafe across from the second restaurant I tried was open. I had some delicious pasta with pesto, and was given directions to the supermarket for some groceries (bread, cheese, prosciutto, wine, and a few oth ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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Corey Jones-Weinert

Corey in Milan

I was offered the opportunity to be a Research Fellow at IFOM in Milan, doing cancer research on DNA repair. If anyone is interested in the science, look up d'adda di Fagagna and read the abstract of his last paper, or ask me and I can summarize what it is we study and what I will be doing. I left the US on August 27th, 2014 and got here, to Milan, on the 28th. I will be here for a year as a research fellow. Afterwards I would ideally stay and work towards my PhD, or maybe a masters, or maybe go down to Pavia, a city an hour south of Milan where my PI has another lab, and work towards my mast... full info

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