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August 2012
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Aug. 28, 2012Paper accepted for the 6th Mercosur Cost Congress.
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Aug. 28, 2012The article “Intra-generational Social Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay,” by Néstor Gandelman, Academic Coordinator of the Department of Economics, and Daniel Bukstein, a student in the Master’s Program in Research Economics, has been accepted for presentation at the peer-reviewed Joint Congress LACEA–LAMES 2012.
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Aug. 28, 2012Funding for the project was approved by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) and the María Viñas Fund.
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Aug. 24, 2012As part of the extracurricular activities for the Specialization Diploma in Real Estate Development, a networking breakfast titled “Real Estate Marketing 2.0” was held on August 30, 2012, at the School of Architecture. The event was led by Architect and Engineer Fernando Cos-Gayon López, Full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and President of Grupo Ágora, a leading firm in project management, architecture, and engineering, as well as project and construction management and the management and sale of real estate assets (desbanca.com), with operations in Spain, Argentina, and Uruguay. The speaker analyzed the principles of real estate development from a web-based perspective.
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Aug. 23, 2012Dean Eduardo Hipogrosso explained why a new specialization is needed within the communication degree programs: digital content.
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Aug. 22, 2012An article by Dr. Martín Solari, Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the School of Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay accepted for publication in August 2012 in the journal *Information and Software Technology*, published by Elsevier.
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Aug. 22, 2012Journalist Gustavo Sierra, a war correspondent and editor of the “El Mundo” section of the Clarín newspaper (Argentina), taught the “Journalistic Genres” module of Programme Professional Journalism Programme from August 27 to December 5, 2012.
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Aug. 17, 2012It doesn't hold him back. Valentin Maury, a French student who spent a year on exchange in Uruguay, has low vision—a genetic condition that requires him to use a cane, but it doesn't hold him back. Between the second semester of 2011 and the first of 2012, he ran races of up to 21 kilometers, went to parties, dated, went skydiving, followed Peñarol, and traveled to Ushuaia and Iguazú with his twin brother Aurélien, who also has low vision. Montevideo, he says, lacks the infrastructure that blind or visually impaired people need, but that is made up for by the generosity of the people.
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Aug. 17, 2012On August 17, 2012, the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences launched the Programme Technology Business Management, designed for individuals interested in launching, developing, and managing technology businesses. It was organized by the faculty’s Center for Executive Education.
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Aug. 16, 2012Dr. Carlos López, a professor of Geomatics in the School of Engineering, was invited to serve on the Scientific Committee of the “8th Regional Conference of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG),” which took place from November 26 to 29, 2012, in Montevideo.
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Aug. 15, 2012Victoria Álvarez, Esq., served on the organizing committee for the “4th Latin American and Caribbean Conference on gvSIG (Geographic Information System) – Growing as a Community.”
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Aug. 15, 2012Smartway was founded in 2010 based on two final projects completed by electronics engineering students. Nicolás Cremona and Gonzalo Díaz began their thesis in March 2009 on the development of a vehicle diagnostic scanner using OBDII diagnostic protocols. Meanwhile, Damián Sandler, José García, and Gonzalo Petersen developed, as their thesis project at the same time, a remote monitoring system that collected data from the diagnostic scanner created by the Cremona-Díaz team and sent it to a server, enabling web-based visualization of the data.
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Aug. 10, 2012The workshop was held on August 22 and 29, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Biotechnology Laboratory.
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Aug. 10, 2012El 21 de agosto de 2012 tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Administración y Ciencias Sociales la conferencia “Las crisis del Euro y Lehman Brothers: ¿vinculadas o independientes?”, a cargo del Dr. Andrew Freris, Chief Investment Advisor de Asia for Wealth Management para el banco BNP Paribas en Hong Kong. El expositor analizó hasta qué punto se vinculan la crisis de Lehamn Brothers y la actual crisis del Euro. El moderador del evento fue el Ec. Isidoro Hodara, Catedrático de Comercio Internacional de la facultad. La actividad fue organizada por el Departamento de Estudios Internacionales.
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Aug. 10, 2012From August 15 to 29, 2012, the “Exhibition of Models for Mathematics 1 and Calculus 1” was held in the lobby of the School of Architecture.
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Aug. 1, 2012Daniel Bukstein, 27, and Emiliano Tealde, 29, decided to pursue a Master’s in Economics (Research Track) because of their passion for economics and their desire to continue growing professionally.
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Aug. 1, 2012On August 2, 2012, ORT Centro hosted a lecture titled “Israel Start-Up Nation: A Southern Perspective on the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of One of the Most Dynamic and Innovative Countries in the World Today.” It was presented by Assistant Professor Víctor Paulós, Academic Secretary of the School of Technology in the Faculty of Engineering; Enrique Montero, Academic Coordinator of the CTC Technological Institute (an educational center offering technical programs certified by the university) and Coordinator of the CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) in Paysandú; and Assistant Professor Marcelo Duarte, National Vice President of JCI (Joint Commission International) Uruguay, a nonprofit organization present in more than 100 countries that works with young people, offering them opportunities for development and leadership. The talk was organized by the university’s CIE.
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Aug. 1, 2012On August 10, 2012, the seminar “Educational Technology in Higher Education,” organized by the Center for Higher Education Development (CAES) of the Institute of Education, began. The seminar was aimed at university faculty members.
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Aug. 1, 2012On August 14, 2012, the School of Architecture launched the Specialization Diploma in Real Estate Development, the first graduate program in this field in our country. It is designed for architects, engineers, accountants, business administration graduates, lawyers, notaries, and professionals in general who work in the real estate sector.
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Aug. 1, 2012From July 30 to August 10, 2012, the exhibition “Einstein’s Contributions to Science” was held in the central hall of the School of Engineering. Guided tours of the exhibition and talks on the life and work of physicist Albert Einstein were led by Dr. Efrain Buksman, Associate Professor of Physics at the faculty; Prof. Martín Monteiro, Coordinator of the Physics Laboratory; Mag. Nancy Sosa, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics, and Juan Carlos Tulic, Adjunct Professor in the same department. These activities, organized by the Department of Physics, were aimed at groups of high school students and the general public.