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August 2013
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Aug. 30, 2013Fifty-nine students arrived at the university, 39 at the college, plus 27 from Harbin, China.
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Aug. 30, 2013Interview with Norbert Monfort, visiting professor in Programme Management Development (PMD) at the School of Management and Social Sciences.
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Aug. 30, 2013In August 2013, the School of Engineering published Research Paper No. 10, “Technical Debt: What Are the Limits of the Metaphor?” by Dr. Santiago Matalonga, a Research Professor of Software Engineering at the school, and Alberto Villar and Cecilia Nacimento, students in the Master’s in Engineering (Research Track) program.
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Aug. 30, 2013The article “Intra-generational social mobility and entrepreneurship in Uruguay” by Daniel Bukstein, a graduate of the Master’s program in Economics, and Dr. Néstor Gandelman, Academic Coordinator of Economics at the School of Management and Social Sciences, was accepted for publication in the “Latin American Journal of Economics” in August 2013 .
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Aug. 30, 2013The article “Facilitating change in primary education: the role of existing school facilities in ICT initiatives” by Paula Cardellino, Architect and Research Professor at the School of Architecture, and Dr. Roine Leiringer, Associate Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction at the University of Hong Kong, was accepted in August 2013 for publication in the journal “Facilities, ” published by Emerald.
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Aug. 30, 2013On August 1, 2013, the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences hosted the conference “Investment Opportunities in Uruguay: The Logistics Sector” as part of the Public Policy Discussion Series organized by CAF—Development Bank of Latin America—and Universidad ORT Uruguay. The event was broadcast via videoconference to CAF’s headquarters in Caracas (Venezuela).
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Aug. 29, 2013The article “Academia and Post-Industrial Journalism: From Mass Culture to Demassification and Fragmentation” by Prof. Daniel Mazzone, Academic Coordinator of Journalism at the School of Communication and Design, was accepted in August 2013 for publication in “Correspondencias & Análisis.” The journal is published by the Research Institute of the School of Communication Sciences at the University of San Martín de Porres (Peru).
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Aug. 29, 2013The article “Overcoming performance pitfalls in rate-diverse high-speed WLANs” by Martín Zubeldía, M.S., Research Assistant in the MATE (Mathematics Applied to Telecommunications) group at the School of Engineering, Dr. Andrés Ferragut, Associate Professor in the Data Networks Area, and Dr. Fernando Paganini, Professor of Telecommunications Theory, was accepted in August 2013 for publication in Computer Networks, published by Elsevier.
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Aug. 29, 2013Álvaro Sánchez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Data Networks in the School of Engineering, served as a peer reviewer from August 26 to 30, 2013, for the Arcusur accreditation (Regional Accreditation System for University Programs in MERCOSUR) of the Electrical Engineering program - Telecommunications program at the Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Inaciana Padre Sabóia de Medeiros, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo (Brazil).
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Aug. 29, 2013The architectural project submitted by Architect Arturo Silva, a tenured professor of Architecture Projects 5 and 6, along with Héctor Berio Lucas, Lucía Faccio, Paula Fernández, Maximiliano García, Cristina Bonifacino, and Sabrina Sánchez, is one of the five finalists in the “Antel Arena: Architectural Ideas Competition.”
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Aug. 29, 2013On August 21, 2013, Ancap President Raúl Sendic and the President’s Executive Secretary, Daniel Fernández, visited the Biotechnology Laboratory at the School of Engineering.
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Aug. 28, 2013Professor María Azpiroz was in China teaching Spanish to students at Harbin Normal University when she began to notice that the teaching and learning processes were different from those in Uruguay. She started to wonder how she could improve them, and so she began to conduct research.
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Aug. 27, 2013Interview with Pablo Heinig, a professor in Programme Management Development (PMD).
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Aug. 27, 2013Lecture by Dr. David DeRosa at the university.
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Aug. 27, 2013Startup Weekend Montevideo 2013 took place on September 20, 21, and 22. The winning project was VitalTec.
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Aug. 26, 2013Lecture: “The Never-Ending Crisis,” by Dr. Oscar Elvira.
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Aug. 23, 2013Second session of the Public Policy Discussion Series organized by CAF—Development Bank of Latin America—and Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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Aug. 23, 2013Lecture: "Ambient Management: From Leadership to Creating Environments," by Norbert Monfort.
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Aug. 22, 2013Dr. Denise Vaillant, academic secretary of the Institute of Education, participated in three events organized by Positivo University in Curitiba, Paraná State (Brazil).
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Aug. 22, 2013Dr. María Inés Vázquez, academic coordinator of the Master’s Program in Educational Management, and Sonia Scaffo, M.A., professor and advisor for the Master’s Program in Education, presented the publication “Educating in a Time of Change: Experiences in Innovation at Santa Elena” at the conference “New Challenges in Education and the Teaching Profession,” organized by the Santa Elena Institute of Education.