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Student Selected by the Botín Foundation to Participate in the Program for Strengthening the Civil Service in Latin America

July 29, 2016
María Belén Hernández, a student in the Bachelor of Economics program, was selected in July 2016 by the Botín Foundation to represent Uruguay in the Program for Strengthening the Civil Service in Latin America. The foundation selected 32 Ibero-American university students with high personal and academic potential and a commitment to public service.

The selected students will participate in a training program in the United States, Spain, and Brazil from October 14 to November 30, 2016.

This is the fifth time a student from the School of Business and Social Sciences has been selected. The other participants were Juan José Riva (2010), Matías Eustathiou (2012), Ilán Bajarlía (2014), and Natalia Cohn (2015), all of whom were students in the Bachelor’s Program in International Studies.