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April 2017
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April 28, 2017Vivian Sulimovich and Florencia Gómez De Salazar were the winners of Lumina 17, which took place on Wednesday, April 27, at Punta Carretas Shopping.
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April 28, 2017Vivian Sulimovich and Florencia Gómez De Salazar were the winners of Lumina 17, which took place on Wednesday, April 27, at Punta Carretas Shopping.
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April 28, 2017In April 2017, Yaugurú Publishing released the 2016 Yearbook, *Maca*, by Prof. Gustavo Wojciechowski, associate professor of Editorial and Advertising Design in the School of Communication and Design.
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April 28, 2017On April 6, 2017, the premiere of the Uruguayan documentary *Mirando al cielo*, directed by Guzmán García Rodríguez, a graduate of the Bachelor’s program in Audiovisual Communication, took place at the Nelly Goitiño Auditorium at Sodre.
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April 28, 2017On April 20, 2017, the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences hosted the third meeting of the year for the Theoretical Discussion Seminar, organized by the Department of International Studies. On this occasion, Andrés Riva Casas, a faculty member who teaches Comparative Politics, delivered a presentation titled "The Origins of Liberal Thought from a Historical Perspective."
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April 28, 2017In April 2017, Editorial Ariel, a publishing house of the Telefónica Foundation in Madrid, published online the book *The School of Screens: Frameworks and Case Studies for the Transition*, edited by Dr. Alejandro Artopoulos, director of the Learning Technologies Laboratory at the School of Education of the University of San Andrés, Argentina, and Dr. Carina Lion, thesis advisor for the Doctorate in Education program, and professor and graduate tutor at the Institute of Education.
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April 28, 2017The video featuring the "Membra" collection by students in the Bachelor of Fashion Design program won first prize at the MoWeek Fashion Film Festival.
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April 28, 2017The article “MOOCs for Lower Secondary Education: Lessons from an Experience,” by scholars from the Institute of Education, was published in April 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal *Perfiles Educativos* (Volume 39, Issue 156, April–June 2017), published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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April 28, 2017On April 21, 2017, the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences hosted a conference titled “The Disruptive Impact of Blockchain on the Digital, Financial, and Accounting Worlds.” The speakers discussed blockchain technology and its potential applications in the financial sector.
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April 28, 2017The article “How to Improve the Interregional Expansion of Multinational Corporations? The Case of Springboard Subsidiaries for Latin America,” co-authored by Dr. Luis Silva Domingo, academic coordinator of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, was published in April 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal*Universia Business Review* ( Issue 53), published by Universia Holding.
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April 28, 2017As part of International Girls in ICT Day, a global initiative promoted by the International Telecommunication Union, the School of Engineering held two workshops for 11th- and 12th-grade students from José Pedro Varela and Elbio Fernández High Schools, which took place on April 27, 2017, at the school.
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April 28, 2017The article“Comparing technical debt in student exercises using test-driven development, test-last, and ad hoc programming,”co-authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was published in the Proceedings of the 2016 42nd Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI 2016), edited by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
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April 28, 2017In April 2017, the Hong Kong Ballet hired designer and costume designer Prof. Hugo Millán—who teaches the courses "Fashion Design 1" and "Fashion Design 2" in the Bachelor of Fashion Design program—to oversee the costume design for *Le Corsaire*, a production that premiered in Uruguay in 2014 and will be staged by the Hong Kong Ballet in October 2017.
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April 28, 2017On April 20, 2017, Prof. Brenda Cherednichenko, Vice President and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Art and Education at Deakin University in Australia, visited the university.
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April 28, 2017Four new projects were approved in April 2017 by the review committee of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE): Unify.bar, Nuda prop, Agrobeep, and Wikimúsculos.com.
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April 28, 2017In April 2017, the publishing house Paidós released the book *Audiovisual Creation in Childhood: From Viewers to Producers* by Dr. Gabriela Augustowsky, a professor and graduate advisor at the Institute of Education, in Buenos Aires.
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April 28, 2017The article “Within the teacher evaluation policies black box: two case studies” by Dr. Denise Vaillant, academic secretary at the Institute of Education, and Dr. Gabriela González Vaillant, a researcher at Stony Brook University in the United States, was published in April 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal *Teacher Development* (Volume 21, Issue 3), published by Taylor & Francis.
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April 28, 2017On April 27, 2017, the Faculty of Architecture hosted a lecture titled "Building Renovation with Energy Efficiency Criteria," presented by Sofía Sáez, an architect specializing in the hygrothermal behavior of buildings at the company Bromyros. The speaker gave a brief introduction to net and useful energy consumption at the residential level in Uruguay, highlighted the importance of energy conservation, and focused primarily on the principles and variables of thermal comfort.
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April 28, 2017ArXiv.org, an open-access repository of scientific e-prints published by Cornell University Library, published the article "Magnetic field ‘flyby’ measurement using simultaneously magnetometer and accelerometer" in April 2017. Among the authors is Prof. Martín Monteiro, coordinator of the Physics Laboratory at the School of Engineering.
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April 28, 2017The article “The polarization of light and Malus’s law using smartphones,” co-authored by Prof. Martín Monteiro, coordinator of the Physics Laboratory at the School of Engineering, was published in April 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal *The Physics Teacher* (Volume 55, Issue 5), published by the American Association of Physics Teachers.