presence of national and foreign

universities is a recognition of

the quality of educational pro-

grams in UADY" said the direc-

tor who recalled that this dynam-

ic is also an opportunity to estab-

lish new programs and agree-

ments with Mexican and foreign

institutions.

Students from other countries are

from universities in the UK,

Spain, France, Germany, USA,

Brazil, Colombia, Argentina,

Chile, Japan and China. Induc-

tion at the meeting dealt with

issues related to services and

programs and information of

UADY, Merida and communities

within the state. It was noted that

most students' mobility focuses

on the Campus of Social Scienc-

es Economics, Management and

Humanities where the Anthropo-

logical Sciences is spearheading

followed by Psychology, Law,

Accounting and Education. Sub-

sequently are the programs from

the Campus of Sciences and En-

gineering and then from Biologi-

cal and Agricultural Sciences.

Merida, Yucatan, January 14,

2016.- The Autonomous Univer-

sity of Yucatan (UADY by its

Spanish acronym) is among the

ten schools of the country with

the largest number of foreign

students, a product of mobility

programs. The above was said

during the welcoming ceremony

for one hundred ninety six na-

tional and foreign students who

will be doing academic stays of

one semester at UADY.

"This indicator is the result of a

study by the Ministry of Public

Education (SEP by its Spanish

acronym)," said Gabriela Quintal

Avilés, Head of the International

Student Institutional Program

from UADY. "In the south south-

east of Mexico there is no other

institution that receives more

students than UADY and I think

that this is the result of work

done for several years," said

Quintal Aviles adding that "even

in the worst years of economic

crisis, indicators remained sta-

ble."

Students of the Mobility Program

of Spring 2016, attended an in-

duction meeting that took place

in the central building of UADY.

Regarding the creation and consoli-

dation of mobility programs, Quin-

tal Aviles noted that "today in edu-

cational institutions mobility is

seen as, something that actually has

important contributions to stu-

dents." She asserted that students

from Mexican universities also

have this perception, as they know

that institutions located in other

regions of the country have differ-

ent schemes and installations and

this generates a level of demand, in

addition to boost the academic ac-

tivity.

In turn, Carlos Alberto Estrada

Pinto, General Director of Aca-

demic Development, said mobility

programs strengthen the axis of

internationalization and place

UADY on the world map. "The

UADY's mobility programs stand out

A U T O N O M O U S U N I V E R S I T Y O F Y U C A T A N

General coordination of cooperation

and internationalization

January-July 2016

Merida, Yucatan, April 6, 2016.- Du-

ring a work meeting with executives

of the Autonomous University of Yu-

catan (UADY by its Spanish

acronym), Yougun Ren, vice president

of the National University of East Chi-

na (ECNU), based in Shanghai, said

the corresponding analysis to

strengthen the areas and exchange

programs between the two educational

institutions were underway.

Accompanied by four collaborators

the ECNU representative participated

in a meeting with José de Jesús Wil-

liams, rector of UADY; Carlos Estra-

da Pinto, Head of Academic Develop-

ment; and Andres Aluja Schunemann,

General Coordinator of Cooperation

and Internationalization.

The ECNU, founded in 1951, has a

study population of 32,000 students

and 1,700 academics; its educational

programs are 61 undergraduate de-

grees, 170 master's degrees and 130

doctorates. The areas of knowledge

that are addressed are Sciences, Liber-

al Arts, Management, Engineering,

Law, Education, Philosophy, History

and Economics.

At the meeting, held in the Hall of

Rectors, Yougun Ren stressed the

fruitful and interesting relationship

with UADY that began in

2014 when Tong Shijun, gen-

eral secretary of the ECNU,

visited the Yucatan institution

in to give lectures on philoso-

phy.

A year later the two institu-

tions, UADY and ECNU, es-

tablished an agreement on

general cooperation and it is

expected that this year the academic

mobility programs, that start in Septem-

ber with the stay of a Chinese teacher at

UADY to specialize in teaching Span-

ish, will start developing in full form.

"We are pleased by the support given by

UADY" said the ECNU vice-president

who was accompanied by Zhou Yong,

office director of the Confucius Insti-

tutes; Yang Zi, head of the oversight

office; Yansa Li, director of the office

of the Global Institute of Chinese Lan-

guage and Yu Zhuang, deputy director

of the School of Foreign Languages.

"Given this dynamic process of cooper-

ation, we hope you visit us, it will be an

honor to have you in ECNU" the repre-

sentative of the Chinese institution told

the directors of UADY who recalled

that "at present we have two yucatecos

in this university” (Daniel F. Campos

Toledo and Leticia Beatriz Bastar-

rachea).

It was also announced that

efforts were being made to

stablish a collaboration

agreement with Cancun,

Quintana Roo, and revealed

that according to the policy

of his country, which states

that academics hold public

office, he will soon be ap-

pointed Municipal vice

president of a city located 2

hours from Shanghai.

For his part, José de Jesús Williams,

rector of UADY, emphasized the

importance of strengthening partner-

ships and stressed, in particular, in-

creased opportunities for students

and faculty from both institutions to

participate in various mobility pro-

grams.

"In addition to learning the language,

either Mandarin or Spanish, it is fun-

damental the knowledge of science

and Mexican and Chinese culture,"

said the rector who stressed the inter-

est in exploring areas of knowledge

of mutual interest.

Moments before concluding the

meeting the traditional exchange of

gifts was held, on the one hand the

representative of the ECNU gave the

rector of the UADY a calligraphy

created expressly for this meeting.

This document is a text that reflects

the importance of working together.

The calligraphy, written by a Chinese

academic, was made on tissue paper

and ink featured in the Asian coun-

try, in it the names of the vice-

president of ECNU and the author

are also shown. In turn, the rector of

the UADY gave the visitors a Mayan

calendar carved in wood.

U A D Y e n h a n c e s m o b i l i t y p r o g r a m s

w i t h C h i n a

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UADY and the University of Ohio,

three teachers from the Degree in

Rehabilitation were trained.

He said that since 2012, Dr. Michele

Basso, Director of Research at Ohio

State University and her assistant

Alexandra Borstad, have visited the

Faculty of Medicine to train teachers

with the purpose of creating the Cen-

ter for Care of Patients with Spinal

Cord Injury of UADY to serve a

larger number of patients with spinal

cord injury and also develop research

in the area.

"Now we have infrastructure and

equipment needed for students and

teachers to attend spinal cord injuries

through this innovative technology

with the aim of improving the quality

of life of the people from Yucatan"

he added.

He noted that the Rehabilitation Unit

UADY serves an average of 100 pa-

tients a week in different areas such

as occupational therapy, musculo-

skeletal system therapy, problems

of development, growth and with

this new technique spinal cord in-

juries progress and complications

can be avoided.

He also announced that Drs.

Michele Basso and Alexandra Bor-

stad, awarded a recognition to the

Autonomous University

of Yucatan, for the crea-

tion of the Care Center

for Patients with Spinal

Cord Injury, which adds

to the seven centers that

apply this treatment in

the United States.

In the event were present

Claudia Barrero Solís,

Ermilo Contreras Acosta,

Ramon Ignacio Esperón

Hernandez and Marisa

Solis Chan, professor at

the Unit, Head of Gradu-

ate Studies and Research,

Academic Secretary, and Coordi-

nator of the Degree in Rehabilita-

tion at UADY respectively . Also

present were Giovanna Arredondo

Gomez, Head of Rehabilitation

Service from the Hospital Ignacio

Téllez; William Martin Duran

from the ISSSTE Regional Hospi-

tal; Miguel Manjarrez Gonzalez,

Head of Physiotherapy at the Au-

gustine Hospital O'Horan; Juan

Miguel Vera Santos, President of

the Mexican Association of Gradu-

ates in rehabilitation, among oth-

ers.

Merida, Yucatan, June 9, 2016.-

The University´s Rehabilitation

Unit at the Autonomous Universi-

ty of Yucatan (UADY by its Spa-

nish acronym), commissioned its

Care Center for Patients with Spi-

nal Cord Injury, said Guillermo

Montalvo Storey, director of the

School of Medicine of

this university.

He explained that in

the Care Center for

Patients with Spinal

Cord Injury at UADY,

they developed the

technique of locomotor

training, treatment that

favors active patient

movement by stimulat-

ing specific points that

activate nerve fibers

that are aimed at the

spinal cord and that

control the patterns of

movements necessary for walking.

He explained that this procedure

involves placing the patient on a

stand that controls the weight load

the patient carries on its legs, a

treadmill, to regulate the speed of

the march, and three therapists to

stimulate the patient's legs to try to

reproduce the normal patterns gait.

He stressed that the Ohio State

University of the United States, is

one of the institutions that has de-

veloped scientific research on spi-

nal cord injuries and locomotor

training. He added that as a result

of a collaboration agreement be-

tween the Faculty of Medicine of

U A D Y c r e a t e s i t s C a r e C e n t e r f o r

P a t i e n t s w i t h S p i n a l C o r d I n j u r y

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Merida, Yucatan 19 June 2016.-

Education programs of Civil En-

gineering and Physics taught at

the Faculty of Engineering of the

Autonomous University of Yuca-

tan (UADY by its Spanish

acronym), received the EUR-

ACE ® label by the National As-

sessment Agency Quality and

Accreditation (ANECA by its

Spanish acronym) of Spain, Luis

Enrique Fernández Baqueiro,

director of the university campus,

reported.

He explained that the EUR-ACE

® label is a certificate issued by

an agency authorized by the Eu-

ropean Network for the Accredi-

tation of Engineering Education

(ENAEE) to engineering pro-

grams that are evaluated accord-

ing to a set of defined standards,

according to the principles of

quality, relevance, transparency,

recognition and mobility covered

by the European Higher Educa-

tion Area.

He stressed that the EUR-ACE ®

label is internationally recognized

because it facilitates the recogni-

tion of diplomas of graduates,

both academic mobility and pro-

fessional practice. It also identi-

fies engineering programs of high

quality in Europe and beyond its

borders.

He said that the European Federa-

tion of National Engineering As-

sociations (FEANI by its Spanish

acronym), automatically includes

titles stamped EUR-ACE ® in

their home directory of engineer-

ing programs that meet the academ-

ic requirements to receive the title

EUR ING - European Engineer.

Meanwhile, the EUR-ACE ® sys-

tem facilitates academic mobility

both as a professional or for gradu-

ates in Engineering.

He added that the EUR-ACE ®

label provides employers with

quality assurance when assessing

the titles of engineering educational

programs.

In an interview in the rectory of

UADY, Maria Elena Barrera

Bustillos, Director of the Council

for Accreditation of Engineering

Education (CACEI by its Spanish

acronym) said that this recognition

is results of the work of interna-

tionalization of CACEI, which

aims to improve the quality the

formation of Mexican engineers to

international standards.

She recalled that last year a cooper-

ation agreement between CACEI

and ANECA, "in this agreement,

ANECA evaluated our six engi-

neering programs from three re-

nowned Mexican public universi-

ties: the Autonomous Universi-

ties of Nuevo Leon, San Luis

Potosi and Yucatán ".

She stressed that the six pro-

grams evaluated obtained the

Seal of EUR-ACE and are the

only throughout America who

have earned this recognition,

"this speaks of the good quality

of Mexican education programs,"

she said.

Dr. Jose de Jesus Williams, rec-

tor of UADY, said that "our uni-

versity is committed to providing

quality education, as set out in

the first two strategic objectives

of the Institutional Development

Plan, which is to form citizens

from high school, undergraduate

and graduate programs that are

highly competent at national and

international levels, and to have a

relevant educational offer and

renowned for its good quality. "

Engineering Programs from UADY receive the EUR-ACE ®

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UADY promotes cultural exchange with women from

Chiapas

Merida, 2 July 2016.- A research

project from the Laboratory of

Ceramics of the Autonomous

University of Yucatan led a group

of women of the Lacandon Jun-

gle, Chiapas out of their commu-

nity for the first time, to expose

their talent in the framework of

the Tenth International Congress

of Mayanists: "The Maya: Dis-

courses and Images of Power."

The seven women, originating

from the communities of Sibaca,

Tenango and Lacandon in the

municipality of Ocosingo, Chia-

pas, participated in the Congress

of Mayanists with a craft exhibi-

tion that included cross stitch

embroidered clothing and prod-

ucts of domestic and handmade

pottery pieces.

Roxana Gordillo Burguete counci-

lor of the City of Ocosingo, Chia-

pas commented that for this women

participating in the Congress repre-

sents an honor, but also a huge

challenge. 'They leave for the first

time their communities, they are

women who had never had the op-

portunity or the decision to leave

their city, and now they do so to

visit another state, which could

be unthinkable for the dynamics

that are kept their communities "

she said.

Gordillo Burguete thanked the

Autonomous University of Yuca-

tan for the approach they had

with the municipality of Ocos-

ingo by which this cultural ex-

change experience could be

achieved for both communities.

Ocosingo is the largest munici-

pality in Chiapas, it has 2,000

communities, all with different

productive activities such as pot-

tery, agriculture, embroidery,

among others.