Several disciplines like Environmental Toxicology, Epidemiology, Public Health and Geology have been the basis of the development of Medical Geology in Uruguay during the last decade. The knowledge and performance in environmental and health issues have been improved by joining similar aims research teams and experts from different institutions to face environmental problems dealing with the po...

El movimiento pedagógico ruralista en Uruguay (1930-1960) llevó adelante diversas experiencias de formación educación rural para estudiantes magisterio y docentes ejercicio, desatándose entre ellas el Centro Divulgación Prácticas Escolares, las Misiones Socio Pedagógicas Instituto Normal Rural. Todas estas propuestas apostaron por una práctica que contemple particularidades del trabajo los maes...

This chapter analyses the Technological University of Uruguay UTEC’s efforts to support entrepreneurship education, and knowledge transfer activities. It also studies connections that university has generated with external stakeholders through these activities in ecosystem Montevideo at a national level.

We present the first record of Atherigona reversura Villeneuve, 1936 in Uruguay, from Pando, Canelones department a rural area used for livestock. , this muscid, commonly known as shoot-fly, is significant pest cereal crops throughout Old World tropics and subtropics its main host Bermudagrass, Cynodon dactylon L.Pers., an exotic species which widely distributed South America Uruguay has econom...

It is a special pleasure for me to contribute something, even something so meager as the present communication, to the number of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine issued in honor of John R. Paul. It is 30 years since we first met and began, each in his own way, to study certain aspects of poliomyelitis. Together we have passed through an exciting era in the development of knowledge of th...

Dryinus Latreille, the most diverse genus of Dryininae (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae), has a worldwide distribution with 268 extant species, which 103 are reported from Neotropics. Only eight species Dryinidae have been recorded in Uruguay, none them belong to Dryinus. In this study, we describe first rogeriae nov. sp. and expanded geographical D. bocainanus (Olmi) based on specimens collected easter...