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September 2013
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Sept. 30, 2013Guillermo Amén Rodríguez, M.A., is a professor in the Department of Operations and Innovation at ESADE Business School (Barcelona) and a visiting professor in programme Management Development (PMD) at the School of Graduate and Executive Studies within the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences.
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Sept. 30, 2013In September 2013, the article “Biofuel expansion, fertilizer use and GHG emissions: unintended consequences of mitigation policies” by Amani Elobeid and Miguel Carriquiry of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University, Iowa (United States), Kranti Mulik of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C., Jacinto F. Fabiosa of the Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., Dermot J. Hayes and Bruce A. Babcock, from the Department of Economics at Iowa State University; Jerome Dumortier, from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis (United States); and Dr. Juan Francisco Rosas, from the Center for Economic Research and a professor in the School of Administration and Social Sciences.
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Sept. 30, 2013The article by Marcos Ruano Mayoral, Financial Consultant at Global Approach Consulting (Spain), Cristina Casado Lumbreras, a Ph.D. student at Carlos III University (Madrid), Helena Garbarino Alberti, Academic Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Systems, and Sanjay Misra, a student in that doctoral program, was accepted in September 2013 for publication in the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, published by Wiley.
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Sept. 30, 2013The article “Parenting MNC networks through springboard subsidiaries: a dynamic model of evolution” by Dr. José Pla Barber, Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Valencia; Prof. Cristina Villar García, Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the same university; and Dr. Luis Silva Domingo, Academic Coordinator of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, was presented at the “23rd National Congress of the Scientific Association of Economics and Business Administration.” The event took place from September 15 to 17, 2013, in Málaga, Spain.
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Sept. 29, 2013On September 23, 2013, the “Character Design” workshop for high school students took place at the School of Design within the Faculty of Communication and Design. The workshop was led by Robert Lence, a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and a visiting professor in the Bachelor’s Program in Animation and Video Games. The workshop consisted of an introduction to the basic concepts and fundamentals of animation. The activity, aimed at 10th and 11th grade students, took place as part of the “FIA’13” International Animation Festival, which was held on September 23 and 24, 2013, at the faculty.
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Sept. 29, 2013On September 24, 2013, the“Stop Motion”Workshop for high school students took place at the School of Communication and Design. The workshop was led by María Podestá, a professor in the Bachelor’s Program in Animation and Video Games and animator *Selkirk*, Uruguay’s first animated feature film. It consisted of an introduction to the basic concepts and fundamentals of the stop-motion animation technique. The hands-on activity, aimed at 10th and 11th graders, took place as part of the “FIA’13” International Animation Festival, held on September 23 and 24, 2013, at the faculty’s School of Design. The workshop was organized by the faculty’s Academic Coordination of Animation and Video Games.
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Sept. 29, 2013Daniel Mazzone, M.A., Academic Coordinator of Journalism at the School of Communication and Design, served as a speaker at the “First International Congress on Digital Journalism,” organized by the School of Journalism at Universidad Mayor (Chile) and SEAP Chile (Spanish and American Society of Journalism).
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Sept. 29, 2013On September 10, 2013, the online seminar “Learning in Higher Education,” organized by the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, began. The seminar was aimed at university faculty and was led by Mag. Liliana Jabif (pictured), a consultant for the IBE (International Bureau of Education) and IIEP (International Institute for Educational Planning) of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Buenos Aires Regional Office. The purpose of the course was to provide practical guidance to university professors on some basic principles of student learning in higher education.
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Sept. 28, 2013On September 23 and 24, 2013, Prof. Guillermo Amén Rodríguez, a professor in the Department of Operations Management and Innovation at ESADE Business School (Barcelona), taught the “Competing Through Operations” module of the PMD (programme Management Development).
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Sept. 28, 2013The article (“J.UCS”) by Jorge Pais, Ph.D., instructor of Data Structures and Algorithms 1 in the School of Engineering, and Dr. Álvaro Tasistro, Professor of Computer Theory and Academic Coordinator of the Master’s in Engineering (Research Track), was published in September 2013 in the Journal of Universal Computer Science ( J.UCS), published by the J.UCS Consortium.
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Sept. 27, 2013A group of 13 students from the Master’s Program in Technology Business Management visited Silicon Valley from September 23 to 27, 2013, accompanied by Leonardo Loureiro, a professor in the Innovation and Technology Management department of the School of Business and Social Sciences, and Marcel Mordezki, the program’s academic coordinator.
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Sept. 27, 2013Fernando Cambón, an instructor in Travel Agency Management for the Tourism Management Technician program, presided over “Expo VTN Uruguay” (International Travel, Tourism, and Nations Fair), which took place on September 20 and 21, 2013, at the Maroñas Racetrack.
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Sept. 27, 2013On September 12, 2013, Carlos Sanguinetti, M.A., academic coordinator of the Biotechnology program, delivered a lecture titled “A New Undergraduate Curriculum in Biotechnology: Successes and Failures.”
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Sept. 27, 2013Enrique Kramer, Academic Coordinator of Management and Administration at the School of Management and Social Sciences, taught the course “Strategy for Dynamic Market Environments” as part of the MBA program at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany) from September 16 to 27, 2013.
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Sept. 27, 2013The article “Influence of toasting treatment on the permeability of six wood species for oenological use,” by Luis Acuña and Daniel González, professors in the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering at the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Valladolid, and Laura Moya, professor of Structures 4 and Research Project 1 at the Faculty of Architecture of Universidad ORT Uruguay, was accepted on September 24, 2013, for publication in Holzforschung, published by Walter de Gruyter.
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Sept. 27, 2013Twelve architecture students, along with professors Alejandro Baptista and Eduardo Bertiz—instructors for Projects 3 and 4 in the School of Architecture—participated in the design workshop “Places in Time: Manifesto of Place” as part of the Week of Actions at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina).
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Sept. 25, 2013Interview with Dr. Leticia Britos, visiting professor in the Master’s Program in Technology Business Management.
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Sept. 25, 2013Interview with Francisco Loscos, professor at ESADE Business School and the school’s Executive MBA program.
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Sept. 25, 2013Lecture on migration and globalization by sociologists Juan Artola and Alba Goycoechea.
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Sept. 24, 2013The 8th annual ICT Job Fair was held on September 24, 2013, alongside the Student Conference and the ORT Programming Contest.