Latest News on Awards and Recognition

July 2015

• Research by coordinators receives funding from the Carolan Research Institute to carry it out
  July 30, 2015
  The study “Motivations for social media use across generations” by Gustavo Rubinsztejn, B.Eng., academic coordinator of Marketing; Carlos Pignataro and Dinorah Margounato, associate academic coordinators, and Guillermina Frick, professor of Tourism and Hospitality Marketing in the School of Business and Social Sciences, received funding on July 22, 2015, from the Carolan Research Institute to carry out the study during the period from September to December 2015.
• University graduates were selected to participate in a program for entrepreneurs at the University of California
  July 24, 2015
  In July 2015, five university graduates were selected by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) and the U.S. Embassy in Uruguay to participate in a program for entrepreneurs, which will take place from August 1 to 9 at the University of California, Berkeley. A total of 10 entrepreneurs were selected from among the 30 who applied.
• A short film by graduating students was named Best Domestic Short Film at the 8th Mar Film Festival
  July 13, 2015
  The short film *El guardián*, directed by Pablo Moreira and produced by Lucía Moreira, both graduates of the Bachelor’s program in Audiovisual Communication, was voted Best National Short Film by the public at the 8th Festival de Cine del Mar, which took place from July 8 to 12, 2015, in Punta del Este.