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July 2012
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July 30, 2012PedidosYa and Woow, two startups supported by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), were honored at eCommerce Day Montevideo
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July 27, 2012On July 26, 2012, a celebration was held to mark the 20th anniversary of the Diploma in Human Resources, with the participation of faculty members from the graduate programs in human resources at the School of Administration and Social Sciences. In attendance were Dr. Gaston J. Labadie, Dean of the faculty; Jaime Damiani, Academic Secretary; Ximena Fernández, Coordinator of Human Resources Programs; and Carlos Zapater, Course Coordinator at the School of Graduate and Executive Studies. The Dean spoke, referring to the history of this graduate program, and Dr. Pablo Fernández, Director of Marketing Tech, gave a presentation on the importance of the internal customer.
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July 26, 2012Smartway was founded in 2010 as a result of two senior projects completed by graduating students in the Electronics Engineering program at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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July 23, 2012A microbiology exhibition was held at the ORT Centro Hall from July 20 to 26, 2012.
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July 23, 2012On July 26, 2012, the event “Caleidoscóptico: Academic Event of the Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design” took place at Club Uruguay. It consisted of the final presentation by students in the Fashion Event Design and Production course, taught by professors Normando Martin and Silvia Díaz. The event was organized by the Fashion Design Academic Coordination Office.
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July 23, 2012From July 16 to 27, 2012, the "Nomadic Design" exhibition, organized by third-year Industrial Design students in the Bachelor of Industrial Design program, was held in the Design School Hall.
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July 20, 2012Two awards and a special mention for entrepreneurs from the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) were the final results of the “Emprendedores en la Mira” competition, organized by Red Emprender.
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July 20, 2012Dr. Inés Kereki presented the paper “Teacher Training in Uruguay” at the “Scratch@MIT” conference. The event took place from July 25 to 28 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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July 20, 2012Dr. Lorena Betancor has been selected to serve on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal *ISRN Biotechnology*, published by the International Scholarly Research Network. The journal publishes original articles and reviews in the field of biotechnology.
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July 20, 2012On July 30, 2012, the conference "Creation of an e-Portfolio System for the New Digital Era" was held at ORT Centro, presented by Dr. Paul Kim, Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean at the Stanford University School of Education. The speaker introduced a new approach to the design of e-portfolio systems (electronic or digital portfolios). The event was organized by the Institute of Education.
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July 20, 2012On July 27, 2012, the launch of ComparTeVe in Uruguay took place at the Comunicación Auditorium, led by the venture’s founding partners: Maximiliano Schatz, an electronics engineer; Gabriel Roizner, co-founder of the company Zolbi; and Federico Zubia, Solutions Manager at U Intelligence.
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July 16, 2012Interview with Nicolás Bianchi and Nicolás Saúl, members of the winning team of the 2012 24-Hour Innovation Challenge.
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July 16, 2012Javier Ganz, a Uruguayan researcher based in Tel Aviv, has grown neurons from cells taken from the mouth and made progress in the fight against Parkinson's disease.
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July 16, 2012The projects pre-incubated by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)—Lock IT, by entrepreneurs Mariana Morales, Gastón Arbeletche, and Álvaro Muhlethaler, students in the Systems Engineering program, and Fashionbox Store, by Cecilia Mendlowicz and Margot Baridon, students in the Bachelor’s in Management and Administration program—were awarded prizes in the “Emprendedores en la Mira” competition organized by Red Emprender. Meanwhile, Good Life, by Karen Mitelman, a graduate of the Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising Communication, received a special mention. The competition aims to support the development of new ventures in Uruguay. The awards ceremony took place on July 5, 2012, at the El Galpón Theater and was attended by the Minister of Industry, Energy, and Mining, Roberto Kreimerman.
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July 13, 2012On July 4, the Graduate Affairs Office of the School of Engineering organized a recruitment event exclusively for the consulting firm Synergos. The company presented its 2012 Young Talent Program, which is aimed at recruiting technical professionals in the fields of computer science and electronics.
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July 11, 2012The event took place on July 31 at the Antel Communications Tower.
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July 11, 2012On July 19, 2012, ORT Pocitos hosted the book launch for “Being Jewish Today: 55 Topics for the Believer, the Skeptic, the Atheist, the Agnostic, the Thinker, the Curious, the Interested, the Disinterested, the Modern, and the Postmodern” by Rabbi Eliezer Shemtov, a rabbi with United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth (Brooklyn, New York), who compiled some of his columns published in the Semanario Hebreo. In addition to the author, Prof. Rodolfo Fattoruso, a columnist for the Búsqueda Weekly and Radio Sarandí, and Ana Jerozolimski, Editor-in-Chief of the Semanario Hebreo, spoke at the event. The event was organized by the Department of Jewish Studies.
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July 10, 2012Diego Cazabán and Giuliana Mastropietro, students in the Biotechnology program, were awarded one-year research initiation grants from the ANII (National Agency for Research and Innovation).
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July 6, 2012On July 11, 2012, the conference “How Science and Technology Can Fuel the Fire of Innovation” was held at ORT Centro, presented by Dr. E. William Colglazier, Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Department of State since 2011. This office provides scientific and technical expertise and advice for the development of the country’s foreign policy. This event was organized by the U.S. Embassy in Uruguay in collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the university’s Office of Academic Development.
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July 4, 2012On July 31, 2012, Eduardo Hipogrosso, Dean of the School of Communication and Design, will deliver a lecture titled “Designer Skills in Digital Environments” as part of the “Third Latin American Congress on Design Education,” organized by the University of Palermo (Buenos Aires). The event will take place from July 30 to August 1.