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June 2014
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June 30, 2014On June 25, 2014, the first thirteen graduates with a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology received their diplomas: Florencia Arezo, Gastón Barranquet, Rodrigo Barreto, Natalie Berkovich, Diego Cazabán, Carolina do Pazo, Belén Harreguy, Federico Machado, Giuliana Mastropietro, Natalia Puentes, Angeline Saadoun, Nicolás Tambucho, and Lucía Zeballos.
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June 30, 2014Delivery Hero, a German online food ordering company with more than 60,000 restaurants worldwide, acquired 70% of the shares in PedidosYa—a company incubated by the CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship)—in June 2014.
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June 30, 2014Ximena Fernández Delucchi, Program Coordinator for Human Resources at the School of Administration and Social Sciences, served on the academic jury for the fourth edition of the “Crear 2014 Awards for Innovation and Best Practices in Human Resources Management.” The awards ceremony took place on June 6, 2014, in Montevideo.
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June 30, 2014On June 25, 2014, the university hosted a ceremony to award the 2014 Ibero-America Scholarship for Young Professors and Researchers, granted by Santander Universities. Dr. Santiago Matalonga, a research professor in software engineering at the School of Engineering, is the recipient of the scholarship.
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June 25, 2014On June 30, 2014, the Faculty of Communication and Design hosted a lecture titled “Protocol and Public Relations: Their Purpose,” presented by Carlos Yaffé, Director of Public Relations and Protocol for the Uruguayan Parliament. The speaker explained the fundamentals of protocol within the Uruguayan Parliament using specific examples.
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June 24, 2014Magdalena Cárdenas, a professor of molecular biology in the biotechnology programs at the School of Engineering, was selected by Uruguay to participate in the “Meeting of Nobel Laureates,” an international event that brings together outstanding young scientists from around the world. The event took place from June 29 to July 4 in Lindau, Germany.
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June 23, 2014The competition aims to provide training to information technology startups to prepare them for meetings with local and international investors.
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June 23, 2014The new startup GPSGAY, founded by graduates of Universidad ORT Uruguay, is among the finalists in the Intel Challenge. Its directors, Rosario Monteverde, an engineer, and Magdalena Rodríguez, a graduate, will soon be traveling to California to represent their country in Silicon Valley.
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June 21, 2014On June 12, 2014, the renewal of the Specific Agreement on Educational Cooperation was signed between the Carolina Foundation (Spain) and the Council of Rectors of Private Universities of Uruguay. Its purpose is to regulate the awarding of joint scholarships for the training of tenured or full-time faculty members and administrative staff at each university in programs leading to a doctoral degree offered at Spanish universities, as well as short-term research stays for professors with doctoral degrees.
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June 20, 2014On June 11, 2014, Daniel Donnangelo, Director of Technology & Operations at Banco Itaú Uruguay, gave a presentation to 22 young participants in the “Camino TICs” program. During the event, he explained how the bank’s IT department is organized and outlined plans for future development and innovation.
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June 20, 2014The Rector, Dr. Jorge Grünberg, attended the annual “World ORT Robert and Eileen Sill National Directors Forum” and the Academic Advisory Council, which took place from June 17 to 20, 2014, in London.
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June 18, 2014BBVA Open Talent is looking for innovative technology projects with the potential to transform and make an impact on the financial industry. The deadline for registration is June 25.
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June 17, 2014Carolina Do Pazo and Natalia Puentes, graduates of the Bachelor’s program in Biotechnology and current students in the Biotechnology Engineering program, are conducting a research internship from June 27 to August 27, 2014, in the laboratory of Prof. Bogdan Dragnea, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University (United States).
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June 16, 2014The deadline to apply for the full UNESCO-IHE scholarship for the Master’s Program in Environmental Engineering with a focus on Sanitary Engineering is August 1, 2014.
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June 16, 2014On June 17, 2014, the Faculty of Communication and Design hosted the conference “The Media vs. the Ballot Box: Three Cases from Recent Campaigns: Pedro Bordaberry, Luis Lacalle Pou, and Tabaré Vázquez.” Participants included Daniel Eskivel, an expert in political psychology and political marketing; Daniel Supervielle, a journalist and strategic consultant; and Esteban Valenti, a journalist and publicist. The speakers analyzed the campaigns leading up to the political parties’ primary elections and their impact on the results. The event was organized by the faculty’s Department of History, Politics, and Society.
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June 13, 2014Leaders from the agribusiness sector spoke about trade with China.
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June 13, 2014On June 18, 2014, the Faculty of Architecture hosted the roundtable discussion “Design in Three Voices,” in which an interior designer, an industrial designer, and an architect spoke about design from their personal perspectives. The moderator of the event was interior designer Flavio Morán, a tenured professor of interior design at the school and a founding partner of Otroestudiomas, a studio dedicated to architecture, design, and interior design projects.
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June 12, 2014The paper “Gentle formalisation of Stoughton’s lambda calculus substitution,” authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was accepted on June 3, 2014, for presentation at the “Joint Meeting of the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS).” The event, organized by the European Association for Computer Science Logic, will take place from July 14 to 18, 2014, in Vienna, Austria.
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June 11, 2014AZsportech, a company founded by graduates of the Systems Engineering program, is heading to its second World Cup. This year, it will accompany the Uruguayan national team to Brazil 2014 to analyze the matches from both a team and individual perspective.
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June 10, 2014Graduates of the Systems Engineering program were interviewed by the newspaper *El Observador* about their innovative program, *Probátela!*, which they developed as their final thesis project.