The scientific archive of Alberto Sols is donated to the Residencia de Estudiantes Next Monday, 4th of June, the archive of Alberto Sols, will be incorporated to the Residencia de Estudiantes. He was one of the leaders of the Spanish biochemistry research, in the areas of enzymology and metabolism control, and was rewarded with the first Príncipe de Asturias Award to the Scientific and Technical Research (1981). Therefore, there will be a donation event at the Residencia de Estudiantes, to which the scientist heirs will attend, as well as José Pío Beltrán, Vice-president of CSIC and other scientific authorities. The scientific archive of Sols contains, among other documents, correspondence with prestigious scientists, such as Severo Ochoa, manuscripts, offprints and laboratory notes that, from now on, will be object of diverse works of cataloguing, conservation and study at the Documentation Centre of the Residencia de Estudiantes, where there are already more than 180.000 documents. The scientific legate will be at the disposal of researchers and interested persons, as part of the founds that the Residencia de Estudiantes Documentation Centre keeps. The forums service of the Virtual Archive has been inaugurated with a first forum dedicated to the "Silver Age" (in Spanish) With the inauguration of the Silver Age Virtual Archive forums, we aim to create a meeting point and a space for communication, exchange and debate among specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Spanish contemporary culture. This new service, which can be found at www.archivovirtual.org/foro/foro1.htm , will give users the chance to get and offer information about the different topics that come out, to expose their opinion and know the rest of the participant´s one, as well as to propose new subjects for future forums of debate. It seemed mandatory to inaugurate this service with a first forum dedicated to the Silver Age, the singular period of the Spanish culture extended from 1868 and 1936 that constitutes the work frame of the Virtual Archive. With this period as argument, the first debate forum of the Virtual Archive has been opened with an introductory reflection of James Valender, British hispanist specialized in the Generation of 1927 (specially in the works of Luis Cernuda and Manuel Altolaguirre) and professor at the El Colegio de México. The restoration works of the Residencia de Estudiantes are over The restoration works of the Central and Twin Pavilions form the Residencia de Estudiantes are over. Works of furnishing, gardening and urbanization development have been carried out at the setting that Juan Ramón Jiménez baptised as La Colina de los Chopos. José María Aznar, Spanish Prime Minister, inaugurated the buildings in a ceremony in which Pilar del Castillo, Minister of Education, Culture and Sports and Anna Birulés, Minister of Science and Technology, were also present. The Prime Minister also awarded José Bello with the "Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil" of Alfonso X el Sabio. [more information] On the 8th of March, 2001, the Residencia de Estudiantes and the Diputación Provincial de Málaga signed an agreement of collaboration. The Diputación Provincial de Málaga, through the Cultural and Educational Department, and the Residencia de Estudiantes, have reached an agreement of collaboration for activities of research, investigation and cultural promotion. The Archivo Vitual catalogue has reached 100.000 records The Archivo Virtual catalogue has, at this point, 100.000 records. Most of them belonging to archives and monographs holdings If you would like to send information that might contribute to improving the way this section works, please click here. Remember that if you register, you will receive direct news and information on the new publications, activities and events of the Network and its members.