Alberto A. Iglesias is a Professor of Biochemistry at National University of Litoral (UNL) and Principal Investigator from CONICET at the Institute for Agrobiotechnology (IAL) in Santa Fe, Argentina. His work is focused on enzymology, mainly the characterization of enzymes involved in carbon, energy, and redox metabolism in plant, protozoa, and bacteria. His studies seek
Since both of my parents were writers I was naturally inclined and started writing at the age of 17 when still at school. In 1962, I went to Cuba to study Philosophy and English Literature at the University of La Habana, thanks to a Cuban government grant. However, early in 1964 I soon bumped into
Mario Guido is at present an Associate Professor and Independent Researcher of CONICET at the National University of Córdoba (NUC) in Argentina. He has been recently elected Vice-chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry (October 2008) and Member of the Latin American Regional Committee of the International Brain Research Organization (LARC-IBRO). The main lines of
Flávio dos Santos Gomes is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), an appointment he took up in 1998, after a four-year tenure as Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pará. He received two undergraduate degrees, one in history from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1989) and
Born in 1975 in Comodoro Rivadivia, Argentina, and currently dividing his time between that city and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sebastián Díaz Morales belongs to the newest generation of Latin American artists. In his films and videos, Mr. Diaz Morales explores the possibilities of video from a perspective that falls somewhere between documentarism and reinterpretation of
Walter M. Farina is an Argentine biologist. He received a M.Sc. (1989) from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. at the same university in 1993. He obtained a research Fellowship given by the German Government (DAAD) to spend two years (1991-1993) at the University of Tübingen, Germany. On completion of that Fellowship, he
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 7, 1959, to a French father and American mother, Paul Desenne began composition studies at the age of 14 under Greek composer Iannis Ioannidis. As a cellist, he became a founding member of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in 1977. He moved to Paris, turning down the opportunity to
Fernanda G. De Felice is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She received her M.Sc. (1997) and Ph.D. (2002) from that University as well, and joined its faculty as an assistant professor in 2002. As a graduate student she had worked in the laboratory of Sérgio T. Ferreira,
Livia Corona was born in Ensenada, Baja California. She is a graduate of Art Center College of Design and works out of New York and Mexico City. Her current project, Two Million Homes for Mexico, focuses on the surge of mass-scale neighborhood developments in Mexico, exploring their role in the ongoing transformation of the
Independent filmmaker Miguel Coyula Aquino was born March 31, 1977, in Havana, Cuba. At age 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (EICTV). Since then he has won awards in his country with his experimental
Verónica Cereceda Bianchi is the General Director of the Foundation for Anthropological Investigation and Ethno-development (ASUR), which she founded with her late husband, Gabriel Martinez, in the 1980s. Centered in the Bolivian city of Sucre, the Foundation offers native weavers not only a market outlet for their beautiful textiles, but a museum to showcase them.
Omar Carrum was born in Mexico City in 1973. He began his formal dance training in 1990 at the Estudio Profesional de Danza Ema Pulido and in 1992 he became a founding member of the internationally touring dance company, Delfos Danza Contemporánea, where he continues his career as a dancer and choreographer today. He has
With his first published article, Máximo Bañados established himself as an innovative, insightful physicist. “The Black Hole in Three-Dimensional Space-Time,” written with Claudio Bunster [Teitelboim] and Jorge Zanelli and published in Physical Review Letters (69 [1992], 1849), convinced many physicists that Einstein equations in three dimensions do accept black holes. A few months later he and
Fernando Benadon studied jazz at Berklee (BM 1996) and composition at UC Berkeley (PhD 2004). His music has been praised by the New York Times as “engagingly forward,” “a perfect curtain-raiser [of] ear-grabbing invention.” He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the League of Composers/ISCM composition prize, Copland House’s Aaron Copland Award, UC Berkeley’s
An independent writer and researcher, Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea Hernández will use his term as a Guggenheim Fellow to investigate how American political cartoons dealing with the Mexican Revolution of 1910 shaped American opinion of that event. Mr. Aurrecoechea Hernández is the author, with Armando Bartra, of the multivolume series Puros Cuentos (Consejo Nacional para la
Angela Alonso is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil; the coordinator of the Environmental Conflicts Area at Cebrap (Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning); and a researcher at the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, hosted by the University of Sussex (UK). In 2008-09 she will also be
Venezuelan poet Harry Almela is the author of Instrucciones para amar el meccano (Caracas: Fundación para la Cultura Urbana, 2006) and eight other volumes of poetry and his work has been included in numerous anthologies. His many honors include the Círculo de Escritores de Venezuela’s Vicente Gerbasi poetry prize (2006); the Miguel Ramón Utrera biennial
Mariana Achugar received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and is currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University. Her work investigates language, identity, and ideology from a critical discourse analytic perspective. She has been currently exploring the teaching and learning of history
Guillermo Luis Albanesi is among the world’s leading experts on Ordovician conodonts. He received his undergraduate degree in geology (1991) and Ph.D. in earth sciences (1997), with highest distinction, from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. As a doctoral student, he had worked not only at NUC, but in the laboratory of Christopher Barnes at
Carlos Luengo obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1967 at the Balseiro Institute of Physics. As an undergraduate student there, he was noticed by Prof. E. Gaviola, an outstanding Argentine physicist (and one of Albert Einstein’s students in the twenties), who, with Prof. Leo M. Falicov, later supported his successful application for the Guggenheim Fellowship that
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