On February 28, Inés Friss de Kerecki and Pedro Salvetto, professors at the School of Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay, were notified by PDT-CONICYT officials that they would receive funding to pursue their doctoral studies at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
This concerns the results of the first call for applications for graduate programs by the PDT-CONICYT Science and Technology Selection Committee.
Meanwhile, on February 28, Guillermo Langwagen, the academic coordinator of the Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering program, traveled to the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil to complete his doctoral coursework.