Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – The University of Tor Vergata in Rome has named a classroom in the Engineering Faculty after Federica Torzullo, a victim of femicide last January. Torzullo graduated from Tor Vergata on February 21, 2011, with a degree in Management Engineering, with a thesis entitled "Production Indicators and Management Control, Essential Factors for Industry: The Terni Waste-to-Energy Plant En.A."
SpA. Before her death hit the news, a statement reads, Federica Torzullo was a student in the Engineering Department at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She studied, took exams, and applied her knowledge to her work. Her name is now restored to the place where part of that journey took shape.
Her loss continues through time and affects even those who didn't know her. This is why every femicide is a collective mourning. Moved, Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, rector of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, remembers her before the academic community, professors, students, and her family: "The university is not just a place where knowledge is transmitted, research is conducted, and professionals are trained.
It is also a community that preserves stories, recognizes people, and questions the world we live in. It is a place that must educate about respect, freedom, and the dignity of every human being. Naming a classroom after Federica means ensuring that her name continues to be present in the daily life of this community. From today, students will enter this classroom, build projects, and imagine their futures. And Federica's name will be here, not as a distant memory, but as a presence that invites us not to be indifferent.
For the university, embracing this awareness means combining the growth of opportunities with respect for the freedom of those who pursue them. The value of an education is also measured by the culture it helps build: in the dignity recognized for individuals, in the equality experienced in relationships, in the responsibility with which institutions respond to a need for protection. Her advisor, Professor Armando Calabrese, Professor of Business Management in the Department of Business Engineering: "Her work, developed during a curricular internship, addressed a concrete management engineering problem through the design of a performance control system for an industrial plant. Federica had analyzed production and economic data," he continues, "defined performance indicators and explored planning and control tools, connecting the knowledge she acquired at the university with the real needs of an organization. Those pages say a lot about her, a young woman who studied, challenged herself, built her skills, and looked forward enthusiastically to the work and life that awaited her. Her thesis is no longer just an academic document. It is what remains, within these walls, of the days Federica spent here, of the things she learned, of what she was able to build with her talent and commitment."
"Federica had a STEM education, was independent, and fully integrated into society and the workforce. She had determinedly built the opportunity to choose her own path. Yet she was killed," says Barbara Martini, delegate for Equal Opportunities and Inclusion at Rome Tor Vergata University. "Her story prevents us from confusing autonomy with security. Femicide affects all levels of education, economic status, and social contexts. We ask women to study, work, and become independent. The responsibility of stopping violence cannot be just another task to be left on their shoulders. It concerns all of society. For the University, naming a room after Federica means preserving her memory in the place of her education and making a specific commitment: to foster, along with women's autonomy, a culture that respects their freedom. Even when that freedom contradicts some people's expectations." The ceremony, moderated by Barbara Martini, the University's delegate for Equal Opportunities and Inclusion, featured speeches by Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, rector of the University of Rome Tor Vergata; Massimiliano Caramia, coordinator of the Engineering Macroarea and full professor of the Mario Lucertini Department of Business Engineering; Armando Calabrese, director of the Mario Lucertini Department of Business Engineering; Carlo Mastropaolo, a lawyer; Stefania Torzullo, Federica's sister; and Stefano Torzullo, Federica's father.
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