Testimonials

October 2014

• "An exchange program helps you understand other cultures"
  Oct. 24, 2014
  Interview with Marie Revelle, a student at Audencia Nantes School of Management in France, who spent the first semester of 2014 on an exchange program at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
• "You come back a better person"
  Oct. 24, 2014
  Interview with Gregory Gale, a student at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, who spent the first semester of 2014 on an exchange program at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
• Marie Revelle
  Oct. 24, 2014
  Interview with Marie Revelle, a student at Audencia Nantes School of Management in France, who spent the first semester of 2014 on an exchange program at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
• Sustainable architecture through microalgae cultivation
  Oct. 23, 2014
  Verónica Braida, Pía Campot, Eliana Nervi, and Carolina Tartaglia, students in the Biotechnology program, are working on their final thesis project, which involves creating a collection of freshwater microalgae and designing a photobioreactor for the production of biofertilizer.
• "Dead Right Here," by César Bianchi
  Oct. 14, 2014
  Journalist César Bianchi has just published "Muertos acá nomás," a book of essays on acts of violence that have occurred in Uruguay. "I tried to analyze and explain in detail some cases that had been covered on television, but to recount them from the beginning, in greater depth," said Bianchi.
• A Uruguayan on Facebook
  Oct. 10, 2014
  Germán Chiazzo, a systems engineering student at Universidad ORT Uruguay, will be doing an internship at Facebook from January through April 2015.
• Bring Back "Those Who Were Singing"
  Oct. 8, 2014
  Composed of Jorge Lazaroff, Jorge Bonaldi, Luis Trochón, Jorge Di Pólito, and Carlos da Silveira (and occasionally Jorge Galemire, Walter Venencio, and Edú Pitufo Lombardo), the group Los que iban cantando existed, on and off, between 1977 and 1987. Guilherme de Alencar Pinto chronicled—in an 825-page book—the group’s history and that of each of its members as soloists.
• Chebataroff-Thomasset Architects
  Oct. 2, 2014
  Architect Pamela Thomasset and Architect Roxana Giovine, both graduates of the School of Architecture, and architect Fernando Chebataroff, a former professor, make up the firm Chebataroff-Thomasset Arquitectos, which this year launched its new website to “spread knowledge on important topics related to construction,” “in addition to the firm’s natural promotion,” they said.