Latest News on Awards and Recognition

February 2022

• April in the running for the Quirino Award
  Feb. 25, 2022
  A short film by animation students has been nominated for the Quirino Award, which will be presented in May in Tenerife, Spain.
• Teachers Honored at the 2021 National Literature Awards
  Feb. 23, 2022
  Teachers Mercedes Estramil and Francisco Álvez Francese were honored at the 2021 National Literature Awards.
• A student who received a scholarship from the Botín Foundation shares his experience
  Feb. 21, 2022
  Interview with Ariel Suhami, a student in ORT’s Bachelor’s Degree Program in International Studies, who was selected to participate in the 12th Program for Strengthening the Civil Service in Latin America.
• "Graduado" Won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 19th Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival
  Feb. 17, 2022
  My Kippah is about an opportunistic thief who tries to steal a Sefer Torah (Torah scrolls or Pentateuch) valued at 100,000 euros, but his plan goes awry when it is discovered that he is Jewish.
• ANII approved funding for two projects at the School of Engineering
  Feb. 16, 2022
  In December 2021, two research projects from the faculty were approved for funding by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII).
• My Kippah: A Short Film About Self-Discovery
  Feb. 15, 2022
  Ilan Rosenfeld’s short film *My Kippah* won the Audience Award at the 19th Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival. The story it tells—about a man who changes his decisions when he discovers he is Jewish—reflects, to some extent, his own. “We’re always caught up in our own stories,” he says with conviction in this interview.
• A graduate won a competition to design the Botnar Center for Child Health building in Switzerland
  Feb. 14, 2022
  The firm co-founded by architect Alejandro Garín won an international competition to design a research center in Basel, Switzerland.
• The winner of the AMBA and BGA Entrepreneur of the Year Award shares her experience
  Feb. 11, 2022
  Interview with Ximena Aleman, a student in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the Graduate School of Business at Universidad ORT Uruguay, who won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the 2022 AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards.
• ORT Admitted as a Member of the Ibero-American University Association for Graduate Studies
  Feb. 8, 2022
  This inter-university network, recognized by UNESCO, promotes horizontal cooperation to foster and develop graduate and doctoral studies in Ibero-America.
• René Fuentes: the first Hispanic American to receive the Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba Award
  Feb. 4, 2022
  A teacher won second prize at the 19th Jaime Gil International Poetry Prize in Biedma y Alba.