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September 2015
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Sept. 30, 2015On September 24, 2015, Mr. Telmo Languiller, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State of Victoria, Australia, visited the university. He was accompanied by Mr. Peter Lochert, Secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services of the State of Victoria; Mr. Noel Campbell, Australian Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay; and Dr. Jorge Seré Sturzenegger, Director of Institutional Relations at the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Sept. 30, 2015Three papers written by faculty members from the School of Architecture were presented at the 13th Latin American Congress on Construction Pathology (Conpat 2015), which took place from September 8 to 10, 2015, in Lisbon. This peer-reviewed conference was organized by the Latin American Association for Quality Control, Construction Pathology, and Restoration.
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Sept. 30, 2015Since September 2015, the university has been participating in the Partnership Hub of the Latin American Food Design Network through the School of Communication and Design. It is a nonprofit organization whose objectives are to establish a leading hub for food design in Latin America, raise the profile of Latin American initiatives, integrate this emerging discipline into the diverse knowledge bases on food and design in the region and around the world, and contribute to training in food design.
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Sept. 30, 2015In September 2015, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) published the book *Entrepreneurs 2007–2015* (PDF). The publication introduces the CIE and its objectives, and features the stories of startups that received its support.
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Sept. 30, 2015Three articles, co-authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, were published in the conference proceedings *Memoria Comtel 2015* of the 7th International Congress on Computing and Telecommunications, edited by the Publishing House of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University (UIGV). This peer-reviewed conference, organized by the UIGV’s School of Systems, Computing, and Telecommunications Engineering, took place from September 23 to 26, 2015, in Lima.
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Sept. 29, 2015¡A Programar!/Code yourself!, the online programming course developed in 2015 by Universidad ORT Uruguay the University of Edinburgh, has been among the most popular courses for Spanish speakers on the Coursera platform for weeks.
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Sept. 29, 2015“Talent Risk Management” by Dr. Lorenzo Preve.
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Sept. 28, 2015Two papers written by scholars from the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the School of Engineering were presented at the 9th Latin American Workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship organized by the EmprendeSUR Network. The event took place from September 9 to 11, 2015, in Mar Plata, Argentina
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Sept. 28, 2015As part of the 75th anniversary of the Central Jewish Committee of Uruguay and the 100th anniversary of the Kehilá (the Jewish community of Uruguay), the Post Office, the Central Jewish Committee of Uruguay, and Universidad ORT Uruguay a graphic design contest for two commemorative postage stamps. The stamps were unveiled on September 7, 2015, at the headquarters of the Latin American Jewish Congress, during the celebration of the Jewish New Year 5776.
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Sept. 25, 2015Summary of the event held on September 2, 2015, as part of the school’s Student Day.
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Sept. 24, 2015“Uruguay: Challenges for the 2015–2020 Period,” by Gabriel Oddone, Carlos Pérez del Castillo, and Juan Labraga.
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Sept. 22, 2015On Tuesday, September 8, 2015, the CPA Ferrere Risk Management Chair held its second meeting on financial risk regulations.
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Sept. 22, 2015As part of the event to disseminate and present the results of the project "Technical Reference Documents for the Standardization of Wood Structures and Buildings," Dr. Laura Moya, a professor and researcher at the School of Architecture, delivered a lecture titled "Regulations for Wood Structures in the Region: Recommendations for Uruguay."
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Sept. 22, 2015Nicolás Gambetta, CPA, academic coordinator of the Graduate Programs in Accounting and Taxation; Dr. Norma Pontet, professor of Management Accounting; and Lourdes Volpi, professor of Administrative Processes and Information Systems at the School of Administration and Social Sciences and academic coordinator of the Public Accountant program, presented papers at the 31st Inter-American Accounting Conference: Toward a Standardized Profession with Quality and Ethical Values, which took place from September 17 to 20, 2015, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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Sept. 21, 2015"How to Improve Your Brand's or Company's Digital Communication," by Gonzalo Sobral, MBA.
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Sept. 21, 2015Enrique Topolansky, coordinator of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), and Dr. Inés Kereki, professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering, participated in the 9th Latin American Workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship organized by the Emprendesur Network, which took place from September 9 to 11, 2015, in Mar Plata, Argentina.
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Sept. 21, 2015The article “Optimizing the biological activity of Fab fragments by controlling their molecular orientation and spatial distribution across porous hydrogels,” co-authored by researchers from the biotechnology program at the School of Engineering, was published in September 2015 in the peer-reviewed journal *Process Biochemistry* (Volume 50, Issue 10), published by Elsevier.
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Sept. 21, 2015On Thursday, September 24, 2015, the Faculty of Architecture hosted a lecture titled “The Work of Architect Raúl Sichero,” presented by Dr. Pablo Frontini. The speaker discussed his thesis on the reconstruction of the architect’s body of work, taking as his starting point the near-total loss of the architect’s personal archive.
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Sept. 21, 2015The article “Alpha-Structural Induction and Recursion for the Lambda Calculus in Constructive Type Theory,” co-authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was presented at the peer-reviewed conference “NAT@Logic 2015: 10th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications.” The event, organized by NAT@Logic 2015 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, took place on August 31 and September 1, 2015, in Natal, Brazil.
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Sept. 18, 2015The graduate coordinator for the School of Engineering, Ana Laura Trías, was interviewed by El País TV about women in the technology sector.