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March 2017
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mar 31, 2017Dominique Sarries, a professor in the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Communication with a focus on Advertising and Marketing, shares her perspective on the new challenges facing the field of communication from Desachate.
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mar 31, 2017Wood is one of the oldest building materials and is the primary material used in residential construction in several countries in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. In Latin America, its use is limited mainly to single-family homes.
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mar 31, 2017In March 2017, Universidad ORT Uruguay a partnership agreement with the University Study Abroad Consortium (USAC), under which USAC established its first office in Uruguay—located on the university’s campus—to coordinate a new program in Montevideo.
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mar 31, 2017Juan Manuel Díaz del Pino's design was selected as the winner of the poster contest for the Children's and Young Adult Book Fair, which will take place from May 31 to June 11.
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mar 30, 2017What motivates millennials to use online dating apps, such as Tinder or Happn? Do women and men use them in the same way? Which gender uses them more? Can these tools end up objectifying people?
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mar 30, 2017The article “Post-truth? The Circulation of Texts in Crisis” by Daniel Mazzone, M.A., academic coordinator of Journalism and Digital Content and professor of Digital Journalism at the School of Communication and Design, was published in March 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal *Diálogo político* (Volume 32, Issue 1). The journal is published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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mar 30, 2017The article “Work in the Digital Age: Reflections on the Impact of Digitalization on Work, Labor Regulation, and Labor Relations” by Mag. Gerardo Cedrola, professor of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining at the School of Management and Social Sciences, was published in March 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal Labor Relations and Employment Law ( Volume 5, Number 1), published by Adapt University Press.
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mar 30, 2017On March 29, 2017, the award ceremony for the 2017 Lic. Sandra Lev Asaravicius Scholarship, intended for the Biotechnology Engineering program, was held at the university’s Downtown Campus. Student Elisa Vanoli received her scholarship certificate from the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Julio Fernández.
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mar 30, 2017In March 2017, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) published a research paper titled "Household Education Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Income and Expenditure Surveys."
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mar 30, 2017"Just like soccer or art, education must identify and nurture young people with potential, rather than leaving it to chance," Vice Rector Julio Fernández stated on punto.edu
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mar 29, 2017Interview with María Eugenia García and Sofía Aresqueta, graduates of the Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies program at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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mar 29, 2017The rector, Dr. Jorge Grünberg, attended the ORT Latin America Summit organized by World ORT, which took place from March 26 to 28, 2017, at the Belgrano and Almagro campuses of ORT Argentina in Buenos Aires. As part of this event, presentations were given by Enrique Topolansky, an associate professor in the Department of Management at the School of Engineering and coordinator of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), and Assistant Professor Víctor Paulós, academic secretary of the School of Technology within the faculty.
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mar 28, 2017On March 30, 2017, the graduation ceremony for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and the Master’s in Technology Business Management was held at the Hyatt Centric Hotel.
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mar 27, 2017Dr. Fernando Paganini, professor of Telecommunications Theory in the School of Engineering, presented the papers “Distribution network management based on optimal power flow: integration of discrete decision variables” and “A feedback control approach to dynamic speed scaling in computing systems” at the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2017), which took place from March 22 to 24, 2017, in Baltimore, United States. The event was organized by the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Information Theory Society
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mar 27, 2017Alejandro Adorjan, Assistant Academic Coordinator of Systems Engineering, presented the article “24 hours of innovation - A report on students and teachers' perspectives as a way to foster entrepreneurship competencies in Engineering” at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) World Engineering Education Conferences – Edunine 2017, held March 19–22, 2017, in São Paulo.
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mar 24, 2017This Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1, will see the return of Desachate, Uruguay’s most important advertising event.
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mar 24, 2017They come from various parts of the world, such as Chile, Spain, the United States, France, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
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mar 23, 2017Lecture on “Women’s Leadership,” by Carolina Bellora.
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mar 22, 2017“The European Union Today: Relations with the United States and Latin America in the Trump Era,” by Dr. Joaquín Roy.
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mar 21, 2017Lecture by Professors Juan Labraga and Agustín Espinosa.