Grantees

Diego Hernán Carro (Fulbright/Multimedios, Argentina) received an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences San Diego Chapter in the category of Outstanding Achievement, Student Informational Program. Carro, who recently received a master’s degree from the School of Communication at San Diego State Univ., obtained the award for his documentary film Ladies and Gentlemen. Carro is currently engaged in academic training at KVEA-TV 52 de Telemundo in Los Angeles, where he is working on the production of Spanish-language newscasts.

Audelino Moreno González (FUNDAYACUCHO, Venezuela), a master’s candidate in advertising design at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, completed a creative internship at Weiden & Kennedy in Portland, Oregon, during the summer of 2000. Only five internships were available to the hundreds of advertising students nationwide who applied for the opportunity. Moreno also recently won a Clio Award and a 2000 San Francisco Advertising Show Merit Award.

Roberto Pérez-Galluccio (Fulbright/PROFOR, Argentina) gave a presentation entitled “PowerPoint Unleashed: The Power of Branching to Create Thought-Provoking, Problem-Solving, Critical-Analysis Oriented Activities” at the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) 2000 International Conference in Long Beach, California, in February 2000. Pérez-Galluccio, who recently received a master’s degree in educational research from Florida State Univ., is engaged in academic training as an instructional systems designer at the Florida Department of Revenue.

Walter Quintero Betancourt (Fulbright/FUNDAYACUCHO, Venezuela) presented his paper “Técnicas de Saneamiento de Agua para Consumo Humano e Industrial” at the Regional Technical Meeting on Food-Borne Diseases in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, in June 2000. In addition, he presented a poster entitled “Pathogen Specific Monitoring of Groundwater, Surface Water and Reclaimed Effluents in the State of Florida” at the International Water Association Health-Related Water Microbiology Symposium in Paris in July 2000. Quintero is pursuing a Ph.D. in marine sciences at the Univ. of South Florida.

Manuel Ruiz Sandoval (Fulbright, Mexico) presented a paper entitled “A Study of the Variation of the Dynamic Properties of a Building During Seismic Retrofit” (with M. Ramírez and J. Iglesias) at the American Society of Civil Engineers Fourteenth Engineering Mechanics Conference at the Univ. of Texas at Austin in May 2000. Ruiz is a doctoral candidate in civil engineering at the Univ. of Notre Dame.

Alumni

Desviación y Verdad. La Re-Escritura en Arenas y la Avellaneda, a book by Colombian Carolina Alzate Cadavid (COLCIENCIAS, Ph.D., 1997, Hispanic literature and linguistics, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst), was published by the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies at the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. Alzate Cadavid is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Literature at Univ. de Los Andes.

Argentinean Fabio Máximo Bertranou (Fulbright, Ph.D., 1998, economics, Univ. of Pittsburgh) is teaching economics and conducting research on health economics and social security pensions at Univ. Empresarial Siglo 21 in Córdoba. He recently published two articles: “Are Market-Oriented Health Insurance Reforms Possible in Latin America? The Cases of Argentina, Chile, and Colombia” in Health Policy 47 and “Proyección de Responsabilidades Fiscales Asociadas a la Reforma Previsional en Argentina” (with C. Grushka and W. Schulthess) in the United Nations/CEPAL report Serie Financiamiento del Desarrollo 94.

Luisa Elena Betancourt de León (Fulbright, M.A., 1992, fine arts, Washington State Univ.) is the director of Centro Piloto del Ateneo de Valencia, a new experimental teaching center in her native Venezuela. She also conducts lectures and seminars on the arts throughout the country.

Venezuelan Antonia Katherine Coppin Phillips (Fundación SIVENSA, Ph.D. candidate, gerontology, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston) facilitated a workshop entitled “Finding & Using Data on Rural Aging: An International Perspective” at the conference Rural Aging: A Global Challenge. The June 2000 conference, which took place in Charleston, West Virginia, included over 3,000 participants from 40 nations. The event was sponsored by the West Virginia Univ. Center on Aging in collaboration with the United Nations Programme on Ageing, the World Health Organization, and the International Association of Gerontology.

Peruvian Gustavo Edmundo Daniell Pérez (USAID, M.B.A., 1995, health services management, Univ. of Dallas) is the hospital planner at the Hospital Regional Docente de Trujillo. In 1999, he helped raise approximately one million dollars in donations from the Peruvian American Medical Society, which was distributed to different areas of the hospital as well as used to provide care for people in the poorer sections of Trujillo City.

Nicaraguan Reinaldo José Laguna Miranda (Fulbright, M.A., 2000, plant pathology, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville) presented a poster entitled “Screening for Resistance to Fusarium Wilt of Spinach” (with J.C. Correll and T.E. Morelock) at the American Phytopathological Society meeting in New Orleans in August 2000.

The master’s thesis “Protected Areas and Non-Governmental Organizations in Partnerships for Conservation: Case Studies from Brazil and Recommendations for the Future” of Brazilian Lígia Moreira da Rocha (Fulbright, M.A., 1997, wildlife ecology and conservation, Univ. of Florida) was recognized as one of the best academic works that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) helped to support in Brazil over the past three years. Rocha received this accolade at a ceremony at the Brazilian WWF office during the Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Scientific Development in July 2000. She is currently working with community-based ecotourism programs at two national parks in Brazil, Chapada Diamantina and Chapada dos Veadeiros.

Peruvian Julio Rojas-Bravo (Fulbright, M.A., 1987, civil and structural engineering, Univ. of California at Berkeley) is a professor in the Facultad de Ingeniería Civil at the Univ. Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, conducting research in earthquake engineering, seismic microzonation, and seismic risk mitigation in urban areas of developing countries.
Venezuelan Arnoldo Soto Reyes (FUNDAYACUCHO, long term research, 1998, neurological sciences, Rush Univ.–St. Luke’s Medical Center) is currently the chief of the Neurological Unit at the Hospital “Dr. Domingo Luciani” in Caracas. In March 2000, he was elected vice president of the Venezuelan Society of Neurology.

The Rockefeller Foundation invited Brazilian Ricardo Tacuchian (Fulbright, Ph.D., 1990, music, Univ. of Southern California) for a residency in Villa Serbelloni, Italy, to work on his musical composition “String Quartet No. 3 ‘Bellagio.’” Following the completion of the residency, the Consulado Geral do Brasil in Milan and Instituto Brasile-Italia arranged for the world premiere of the Quartet at the Filodrammatici Theater in Milan in November 2000.

Venezuelan Guillermo Yáber Oltra (FUNDAYACUCHO, Ph.D., 1993, psychology, Western Michigan Univ.) is the dean of the Graduate Studies Program at the Univ. Simón Bolívar in Caracas.

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