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September 2017
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Sept. 30, 2017From September 27 to October 4, 2017, the final project defenses for the Bachelor’s degree programs in Systems and Systems Engineering will take place.
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Sept. 30, 2017On September 28, 2017, the Faculty of Communication and Design hosted a screening of the film *Misión No Oficial* alongside its creators: Marcos Hecht and Alfonso Guerrero, students in the Bachelor’s program in Audiovisual Communication. The event was part of the *Panorámica* film series, organized by the School of Communication.
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Sept. 30, 2017In September 2017, the university signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom to promote academic collaboration in areas such as student and faculty exchanges, joint projects, and other areas of mutual interest.
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Sept. 30, 2017Prof. Martín Monteiro, coordinator of the Physics Laboratory at the School of Engineering, presented the paper “Measuring the Magnetic Field ‘On the Fly’ with a Smartphone” at the 102nd Meeting of the Argentine Physical Society.
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Sept. 30, 2017In September 2017, the university published the 2016 Institutional Yearbook on its website, which features a selection of activities carried out by the academic community.
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Sept. 29, 2017Dr. Denise Vaillant, academic secretary of the Institute of Education, served on the committee evaluating Nelly Sierra Ospina’s doctoral dissertation for the Doctor of Education program at the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.
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Sept. 29, 2017As part of the launch of the Specialization Diploma in the Design, Analysis, and Construction of Wood Structures—a joint program between the School of Architecture at Universidad ORT Uruguay the School of Engineering at the University of the Republic—a conference titled “Wood Engineering Products: State of the Art in Uruguay” was held. The event took place on September 27, 2017, at the Pocitos Campus.
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Sept. 29, 2017The article “Classroom environments: An experiential analysis of pupil–teacher visual interaction in Uruguay,” co-authored by Dr. Paula Cardellino, a faculty researcher at the School of Architecture, was published in September 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal *Learning Environments Research* (Volume 20, Issue 3). The journal is published by Springer.
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Sept. 28, 2017In 1992, Universidad ORT Uruguay a new degree program in our country: Marketing Analyst. Today, has than 1,100 graduates in the workforce. Its ongoing challenge is to maintain the prestige that sets it apart and stay ahead of new marketing trends.
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Sept. 27, 2017Brother 1816, a typeface created by designers Fernando Díaz and Ignacio Corbo, has been named by Typographica as one of the world’s best typefaces of 2016.
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Sept. 27, 2017On Tuesday, September 26, a conference titled “The Development and Current State of Cybersecurity in the Americas” was held, featuring Belisario Contreras, manager of the Cybersecurity Program at the Organization of American States (OAS), and Diego Subero, a cybersecurity consultant at the OAS’s Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE).
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Sept. 27, 2017On September 26, 2017, the “Economics for Everyone” lecture was held at the Downtown Campus, presented by Victoria Fraschini, Director of Training and Innovation at Socialab, an organization that supports and promotes social enterprises. The event was organized by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Sept. 26, 2017Magdalena Álvarez is a graphic designer, animator illustrator. She teaches in the Bachelor’s programs in Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Fashion Design, and Industrial Design.
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Sept. 26, 2017Interview with Vincent-Paul Vincentelli, a student at Toulouse Business School (France), who spent a semester as an exchange student at the School of Business and Social Sciences at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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Sept. 26, 2017The article “Engineering Students and Their Perceptions of Quality Education” by Dr. Denise Vaillant, academic secretary of the Institute of Education, and Vania Siqueira, M.A., a graduate of the Master’s program in Education, was published in September 2017 in the journal *Actualidades Investigativas en Educación* (Volume 17, Issue 3).
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Sept. 26, 2017The article “Controlling the variability of capacity allocations using service deferrals,” co-authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was published in September 2017 in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (Volume 2, Issue 3). This peer-reviewed journal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Sept. 23, 2017
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Sept. 21, 2017On September 19, 2017, the lecture “Bitcoin and AlgoTrade: New Opportunities in the Market” was held at the Downtown Campus, presented by Dan Mitelman, co-founder of the Punta Capital investment fund. The event was organized by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE).
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Sept. 20, 2017The Job Fair received support from Martín Ross, an Information Technology Analyst at Universidad ORT Uruguay a laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering, for the production of the promotional video and the closing music.
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Sept. 20, 2017On September 13, 2017, the School of Engineering held another edition of its Job Fair, exclusively for technology professionals.