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March 2021
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mar 31, 2021Marcelo López, a graduate of the Bachelor’s program in Management and Administration at Universidad ORT Uruguay, is the Operations Manager at dLocal, Uruguay’s first unicorn company. López discusses his professional challenges, what it’s like to work at a company experiencing such rapid growth, and the skills his degree provided him to tackle these challenges.
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mar 30, 2021E-commerce in Latin America saw significant growth in 2020 due to the pandemic, and Uruguay was no exception. What new challenges does this sales channel present, and how is our country addressing them? Faculty members from ORT’s Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies and the Digital Communication and E-Commerce Analyst program discuss the issue.
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mar 30, 2021Interview with Belén Alonso, a Certified Public Accountant who graduated from Universidad ORT Uruguay in Universidad ORT Uruguay currently works as an accounting assistant at Auren Uruguay.
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mar 30, 2021Online webinar: “Digital Business: The Value of Engaging with Data,” by Martín Fagioli, Head of Business Development at Tryolabs.
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mar 29, 2021Users can access the academic platform of the renowned British newspaper, which includes international, economic, and financial news.
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mar 26, 2021On the night of Tuesday, March 23, a 400-meter-long ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, an incident that has since blocked all shipping traffic between the Mediterranean and Red Seas in both directions. Javier Maseiro, academic coordinator of ORT’s Foreign Trade Analyst program, explains the importance of this waterway for international trade and why the blockage is a cause for concern.
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mar 25, 2021An old saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Photography, like writing or spoken language, is another form of communication. A student, a graduate, and a professor from ORT’s School of Communication share how they became photographers and how they convey messages through images.
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mar 25, 20212020 Teaching Excellence Awards Ceremony of the School of Business and Social Sciences at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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mar 25, 2021Online conference: “Post-Pandemic Tourism: Outlook and Trends,” by Oscar Iroldi and Pablo Pesce.
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mar 24, 2021Next Saturday, March 27, 2021, at sunset, the Passover holiday for the Hebrew year 5781 will begin.
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mar 23, 2021Alejandra De Bellis holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from ORT. For the past five years, she has been representing our country on the world stage as Uruguay’s ambassador to UNESCO.
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mar 23, 2021Official launch of the Chair on the Internationalization of the Accounting Profession – PwC, jointly sponsored by the School of Business and Social Sciences and PricewaterhouseCoopers Uruguay.
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mar 22, 2021Dr. Martín Rebour has been appointed associate coordinator of the Master’s Program in Education and the Doctoral Program in Education. Dr. Andrea Tejera has assumed the role of coordinator of the Master’s Program in Teacher Training.
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mar 18, 2021How is it possible that a collage of 100% digital images sold at auction for nearly $70 million? The answer lies in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs—certificates that grant ownership of a unique digital item and operate on the blockchain.
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mar 18, 2021Florencia Sabatini, Google’s Communications Manager for the Southern Cone, explained the impact of digitalization on work practices, which have been forced to undergo a rethinking, breaking away from traditional organizational communication models.
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mar 18, 2021The aim of Claudia Lagos’s doctoral dissertation was to study the interactions between student teachers and children in Chilean preschool and elementary schools.
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mar 17, 2021Paula Rial, an architect and academic coordinator of ORT’s Landscape Design Technician program, toured the British Residence alongside Ambassador Faye O’Connor to learn about the features of one of Montevideo’s largest gardens.
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mar 17, 2021A new issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute of Education at Universidad ORT Uruguay has been released.
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mar 17, 2021A total of 440 projects were submitted, and only six were selected: *The Yellow Diver* is in the running for the International Illustrated Book Award (Spain).