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May 2013
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May 31, 2013Video conference at the university with the headquarters of CAF—the Development Bank of Latin America—in Caracas.
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May 31, 2013Rodolfo Gioscia, General Manager of Manos del Uruguay and 2012 MBA Honoree.
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May 30, 2013Lecture by Dr. Alfonso Soria Mendoza, Director for Europe at the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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May 30, 2013The article “Identifying experimental incidents in software engineering replications” by Dr. Martín Solari, Associate Professor of Software Engineering in the School of Engineering, was accepted on May 23, 2013, for presentation at the “7th Association for Computing Machinery/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE) International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2013).” The event, organized by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, will take place on October 10 and 11, 2013, in Baltimore, United States.
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May 30, 2013The article “Biomimetic Nano-Silica as a Protein Chromatographic Matrix” by Erienne Jackson, a master’s student in the PEDECIBA (Basic Sciences Education Program) in Chemistry and an instructor in the Bachelor’s Program in Biotechnology; Mariana Ferrari, Coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the School of Engineering; and Carlos Sanguinetti, Academic Coordinator of Biotechnology; Dr. Valeria Grazú, Researcher at the Aragón Institute of Nanoscience at the University of Zaragoza (Spain); Dr. Jesús Martínez de la Fuente, Senior Researcher at the same institute; and Dr. Lorena Betancor, Research Professor in the Biotechnology Bachelor’s Program, was presented at the “European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2013 Spring Meeting: Bionanomaterials for imaging, sensing and actuating.” The event, organized by the European Materials Research Society, took place from May 27 to 31, 2013, in Strasbourg (France).
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May 30, 2013The article “Soft skills in software engineering. A study of its demand by software companies in Uruguay” by Dr. Gerardo Matturro, Research Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at the School of Engineering, was presented at the “35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013): 6th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering.” The event, organized by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer Society, took place from May 18 to 26, 2013, in San Francisco (United States).
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May 30, 2013The article “Controlled immobilization of Fab fragments on heterofunctional supports” by Mariana Ferrari, Coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the School of Engineering; Rodrigo Barreto, a student in the Biotechnology program; Dr. Fernando López Gallego, a researcher at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC); Spain, Dr. Lorena Betancor, Researcher and Associate Professor at the Biotechnology Laboratory, and Prof. José Manuel Guisán, Research Professor at the CSIC Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry, was accepted on May 17, 2013, for presentation at the “246th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (COLL) symposia: Conjugation of biomolecules to interfaces and nanomaterials.” The event, organized by the American Chemical Society, will take place from September 8 to 12, 2013, in Indianapolis (United States).
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May 29, 2013We are pleased to announce the upcoming start of our professional development course on Android mobile app professional development .
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May 29, 2013A group of students from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in the United States visited the School of Business and Social Sciences on May 20 and 21, 2013, accompanied by Dr. Robert Hoover, a professor in the Department of Marketing at Idaho State University, and Dr. Joel Saegert, professor emeritus in the Department of Marketing at UTSA.
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May 29, 2013As part of Science and Technology Week, an “Open House” was held on May 24, 2013, at the Biotechnology Laboratory of the School of Engineering.
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May 29, 2013On May 29, 2013, the online seminar—organized by the Center for Higher Education Development at the Institute of Education—began, aimed at university faculty.
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May 28, 2013Dr. Andrés Ferragut participated in the Probability and Statistics Seminar.
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May 27, 2013Article published in El Observador on May 26, 2013.
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May 24, 2013On May 10, 2013, architect Andrés Eliseo Cabrera, an instructor for the "Solar Thermal Systems Design" course at the School of Architecture, taught a course on solar thermal energy at the Rivera Cultural Center as part of the project "Strengthening Solar Thermal Energy in the Northern Region of the Country."
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May 24, 2013In May 2013, the School of Management and Social Sciences published Research Paper No. 94 , “HRM Practices in Uruguay, 1997–2007,” authored by Dr. Adriana Cassoni, a researcher and professor of economics at the school, and Dr. Gaston J. Labadie, dean and professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the school.
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May 24, 2013In May 2013, Wolkowicz Editores published the book *Latin American Typography: A Current and Future Overview*, edited by Vicente Lamónaca, who teaches Typography 2 in the Bachelor of Graphic Design program and serves as managing partner of TC-Comunicación (a design studio).
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May 24, 2013In May 2013, the School of Management and Social Sciences published Research Paper No. 93 , “Innovativeness along the Business Cycle,” authored by Dr. Adriana Cassoni, a researcher and professor of economics at the school, and Dr. Magdalena Ramada-Sarasola, Head of Research and Analytical Services at Towers Watson Uruguay and a researcher in the school’s Department of Economics.
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May 23, 2013Official farewell ceremony for the students of Harbin Normal University.
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May 23, 2013On May 17, 2013, the Faculty of Engineering hosted “Scratch Day 2013,” an event featuring presentations of projects related to Scratch created by high school teachers.
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May 23, 2013The set of exercises submitted by Alejandro Adorjan, assistant academic coordinator of Systems Engineering and a student in the Master’s in Engineering (Research Track) program, and Dr. Inés Kereki, professor of Programming in the School of Engineering, won one of the top prizes in the “Single-Problem Exercise Set Competition” of the PRECITyE Program (Regional Program for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Engineering). The results of the competition were announced on May 14, 2013.