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Tec de Monterrey is ranked 29 in research in the world among private universities. Salvador Alva, president of Tec, said that including institutions that receive government support for research, the institution occupies the position 158 globally.
In 13 years Tec de Monterrey climbed 275 research positions. “(In 2007) the World University Ranking (WUR) QS measured 500 universities in the world and positioned us in number 433,” Alva said. “Of those 22 researchers in 1970, today we have 1200 of which 643 are members of the National System of Researchers,” Tec de Monterrey’s president said during the inauguration of the 50th Conference on Research and Development organized by Tec de Monterrey.
“At Tecnológico de Monterrey, we firmly believe that one way to deal with change is through education and research, for only in this way will we strengthen our ethical values, our critical thinking and, above all, we will be able to make firm and valuable contributions that provide answers and solutions to the problems of our society,” Salvador Alva said.
The Vice-Rector of Research, Arturo Molina, stated that a substantive function of Tec de Monterrey is research. Molina noted that every university has among its contributions education, the generation of knowledge, and the impact of the university on its social, economic, and political environment. “We are currently the number one private university in Mexico in relation to the number of researchers in the National System of Researchers,” he said.
Winners of the Rómulo Garza Prize 2019
During the event, the institution held the awards ceremony for the Rómulo Garza Award to the most featured academics in Research and Innovation of 2019.
Winner of the Insignia Award, Dra. Dora Elvira García. (Photo: Udell Cizar Jiménez)
Professor Dora Elvira García became the first woman to win the Insignia Award for her academic career. For 16 years, she has been a researcher at the School of Humanities and Education at the institution. Dr. García has more than 70 published articles and 12 scientific books that have been disseminated internationally. The doctor is also a Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and she has focused on Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Peace.
“The Philosophy of Peace seeks how to overcome forms of violence. The research process always goes together with that, and that impacts the students. This is building a way to see the world, the reality, and the fight for the peace we deserve,” said Dora Elvira García.
The winner of the Insignia award said that this recognition incentivizes the spirit of the institution’s female researchers. “Poverty, social inequalities of gender and class, violence, have real-world consequences for which they need researchers in the humanities […] Tec researchers maintain realistic ideals of humanity; we have not refrained from doing relevant research that always falls back on the great problems that humanity faces,” she said during her acceptance speech.
For her part, Dr. Daniela Gordillo Bastidas won the award in the category, “Books/eBooks published,” for her work, Molecular Nutrition, published by McGraw Hill Education. Her work focuses on the analysis of the molecular bases of chronic-degenerative diseases and how genes can be “turned on” and “turned off” to prevent and control them through food and lifestyle.
In the category, “Articles published in high impact factor journals,” the winners were Raúl Hernández Aranda and Benjamin de Jesús Pérez, who published their article, Characterizing quantum channels with non-separable states of classical light, in the journal, Nature Physics. The study was published in 2017 and has had 31 citations in Scopus CiteScore, a higher than the average number of citations received by articles in the same publication timeframe on that topic.
For the first time, there were winners for research and innovation projects at the postgraduate, professional, and preparatory levels; the winners were Rafael González, Antonio Jiménez, and Celine Rojas, respectively.
The Rómulo Garza Award, established in 1973, consists of a statuette and financial support for the winners ranging from 50,000 to 400,000 pesos (around USD 2500 and USD 20,000).
*Correction: A previous version of this article indicated that Tec de Monterrey occupies the 22nd position worldwide among universities that do not receive public funds and number 153 among universities that receive government support. The correct fact is that Tec holds the 29th place worldwide among private universities and position 158 in the world among university institutions that receive government support.
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