ROME – On Tuesday La Sapienza announced on their website that they have dedicated their new study rooms to student, Ilaria Sula, 22, who was due to graduate with a degree in Statistics before being tragically murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Mark Sampson in March in recent case of femicide that caused outrage throughout Italy.

 On Monday, April 14, 2025, Sapienza celebrated a double anniversary: ​​March 31 marked the 90th anniversary of the current site of the university, built in 1935, and April 20 marked the 722nd anniversary of the foundation of the Studium Urbis by Pope Boniface VIII in 1303.

On this occasion, the University has chosen to use the name “Ilaria Sula Study Spaces”, which are located inside the former Dopolavoro building. At the entrance to the main study and reading room, a dedicatory plaque reads:

“A Ilaria Sula,

studentessa Sapienza

Per non dimenticare

tutte le donne vittime di femminicidio

il cui futuro non potrà più essere scritto”.

“To Ilaria Sula,

a Sapienza student,

so we may not forget 

all the women, victims of femicide

whose futures no longer able to be written.”

"Today's celebrations have come to be a moment of reflection for our university in which we are able to meet and recognize ourselves, in the name of the values ​​shared by our community. This year's anniversary was marked by pain due to the tragic death of Ilaria Sula, our student and victim of femicide. The university bodies have approved the naming of the new study spaces inaugurated today after Ilaria. And so at the end of this morning, in the presence of Ilaria's family, we have done so as not to forget what happened and to keep the memory of a daughter of Sapienza alive" announced the rector of the university, Antonella Polimeni. 

 The new rooms boast 124 new study spaces and include a new conference room that seats 65 in a space that is around 1500 square metres, meaning that student will be able to make good use of the rooms dedicated to Ilaria for many years to come.

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