Lorena Quaranta, the girl from Favara, student of the University of Messina, victim of femicide in recent months, is a doctor of Medicine and Surgery. This morning she was awarded the degree in memory during a moving ceremony broadcast live on the facebook page of the University of the city of the Strait and also shared by Siciliaonpress.
Lorraine’s thesis, entitled “Selective immunodeficiencies: chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis”, it was evaluated by a commission chaired by Rector, prof. Salvatore Cuzzocrea, who was also co-supervisor, and composed of professors Carmelo Damiano Salpietro (supervisor), Giovanna Spatari, Giovanni Raimondo, Sergio Baldari, Eugenio Cucinotta, Edoardo Spina and Giusy Cotroneo and the President of the local Medical Association, dr. Giacomo Caudo.
The Ceremony was attended, among others, by the Vice-Rectors and Department Directors, the Assistant Prosecutor of the Messina Public Prosecutor’s Office, Dr. Giovannella Scaminaci, the Prefect of Messina, SE Dr. Maria Carmela Librizzi, Dr. Maria Andaloro, creator of the “Occupied position” campaign and the President of the University Single Guarantee Committee, Prof. Concetta Parrinello.
Professor Carmelo Damiano Salpietro drew a profile of Lorena recalling some episodes of her university attendance and how she had chosen the topic of her thesis which was discussed in the classroom by Lorena’s friend and colleague Vittoria Patorno. Degree in medicine and surgery with the score of 110/110 and lode, it was delivered by the Rector of the Cuzzocrea University in the hands of father and mother, present at the ceremony together with Lorena’s brothers and sister, the ceremony ended with a long applause.
There were numerous requests for participation from Lorena’s course colleagues, but the requests were only partially accepted due to the ongoing emergency, also for this reason the University of Messina has prepared the live streaming of the graduation session , in any case allowing the contingent presence in compliance with anti-covid regulations, to 75 students who were divided between the Aula Magna, the Peloritana Academy and the Cannizzaro Aula
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