Hwang Yoon (SIPA) andAlexanderHazbun Columbia University alumni meeting with the support ofColumbiaGlobal Centers|LatinAmerica with thesupport the New York-based ColumbiaAlumni Association (CAA), (Law School)andGraciela Ibáñez School)and (Journalism go's Vitacura district.Organized by María delPilar Duarte took placelastNovember atthe Taringa restaurant inSantia- e latestgatheringofColumbiaUniversity alumniinChile Chile. Business atColumbia,togetherwithMarcelo Olivares, aprofessor ofIndustrial attheDepartment Engineering atUniversidad de A. Weintraub oftheColumbia-Chile Fund.with thesupport isproject isledby Gabriel , Sidney Taurel AssociateProfessor of took placeinthecontextof project “Public Procurement Mechanisms: From Practice toResearch (andBack Again)” implemented emphasisonlessonslearnedforpractitioners andpolicy-makers.Histo patientsfororgantransplants, withaparticular trip toChile Professor Leshnotalkedaboutsuccessfulapplications,rangingfrom theallocationofstudentstoschoolsmatchingdonors participants. problems inwhichmoneycannotbeusedtoincentivize in particular, ofmatchingmechanismsforallocation andpracticeofmarket design and, advances inthetheory and Other Applications" in which he discussed recent entitled Columbia University's Business Schoolgave alecture On December 22,Professor Jacob D.Leshnofrom Lecture by Professor Jacob Leshno Baytelman (LAW) andRobert Currie Bernardita Subiabre (SEAS),Andrés "Market Design: Lessonsfrom SchoolChoiceSystems (SIPA) (LAW) Phone: +56-2-22283600 - Email: santiago[email protected] -Twitter:Phone: +56-2-22283600 -Email:[email protected] @ColumbiaChile Av. 3269,1st Floor, Chile7630000 - Hammarskjold Vitacura, Santiago Dag Contact Us | Columbia Global Centers | Latin America(Santiago) Contact Us | ColumbiaGlobal Centers María delPilar Duarte (LAW) andGraciela Hazbun (SIPA), RandalFahs (SIPA) and Jose na Consiglio(LAW), Alexander ©2015 Columbia University Ricardo Alvial(SIPA) Ibáñez (Journalism)
gthen theirties. networking amongColumbiaUniversity graduatesandstren- that more suchactivitiesshouldtakeplaceinorder tofacilitate and across di erent generations.At theevent, itwasagreed (Santiago), itwasattendedby alumnifrom di erent programs Gabriel A. Weintraub A. Gabriel Ignacio Montero (TC), Pamela López (Business) andIván Bertrand-Galindo Jaime Salas (LAW), Santiago Munita
(TC) andJorge Cifuentes(TC) Jacob D. Leshno D. Jacob
(LAW). Marcelo Olivares Marcelo ainlUiest fSingapore’s LindaJ.. Kenney National University of event University's aswell asHarvard David Claphamand E. postdoctoral researcher AndrésRivas Columbia University’s Professor Michael Sheetz and was co-sponsored by Chile’s Fundación Ciencia y Vida. Biological Sciences, Columbia’s of Department of Fernández Research project, led by (CONICYT). The Professor Julio M. National Commission for Scientific and Technological Columbia-Chile Fund, created by ColumbiaandChile's financed by that was the partly on mechanobiology hosted aunique symposium andworkshopAmerica (Santiago) On December 11-12, ColumbiaGlobalCenters |Latin Symposium &Workshop on Mechanobiology research activities. the University’s eight Global Centers for teachingmore of or Professor for faculty wishing to use the ty's President Lee C.Bollinger, designed to provide support Fund (PGIF), launched inMarch2013by- ColumbiaUniversi project funded through the President’s GlobalInnovation with other universities andcompanies. Its launch ispart ofa ty will generate waste recycling andenergy recovery projects chapter of WTERT through which UDD's Engineering Facul - The event served asthe opportunity to launch the Chilean Ministry. Faculty, the EarthEngineering Center, andthe Chilean Energy (Santiago), Universidad del Desarrollo’s (UDD) Engineering organized byColumbiaGlobalCenters |Latin America workshop on"Sustainable WasteManagement inLatinAmerica" local authorities andexperts. He was the key speaker at a Council (WTERT), visited Chile lastSeptember to meet with University-based Waste-to-Energy Research andTechnology University's Earth Engineering Center andChairofthe Professor Themelis Speaks on Waste Management Nickolas J.Themelis
resources or facilities of one or one or resources or facilities of , Director ofColumbia also participated inthe alsoparticipated Torrealba and Carolina Raúl Pérez-Jiménez Daniel Guerra, Christian Wilson, Michael Sheetz, Linda Keeney, Julio Fernández, David Clapham, Andrés Rivas, Pablo Valenzuela, also discussed aspotential clusters forpilot programs. Vitacura and La Pintana districts were in Santiago's efforts waste recycling and householdindustrial waste. Examples of separating the New York experience of City government's Sandwich, MA,aswell as histown of landfills andwaste of discussed the experience with theDuring meeting, Themelis waste into energy. Rodrigo Palma of , which focused onthe transformation SERC's Director, meeting chaired by ina participated institute, where he transfer technology Fundación Chile universities andthe by sixlocal formed (SERC Chile), Research Center Solar Energy also visited the Professor Themelis drug development. drug to mechanical forces, providing anentirely new perspective on proteins target discover compounds that affect the response of developing mechanopharmacology, anew field which aimsto products. workshop The sought to explore the possibility of translating it into beneficial research but alsothe of challenges Participants not only about the state of were able to learn its kindinChile. single-molecule levels, was the first of pioneered this new science at both the cellular and event, who haveThe which experts brought together seminar andthe workshop that followed the mainlectures. Faculty andstudents fromlocal universities alsoattended the Fernández with Julio y Vida, Ciencia Fundación Co-Founder of Director and Scienti c Valenzuela, Pablo emelis Nickolas
February 2015 | 003 participation. participation. that seeks to promote innovativeorganization urban development with citizen CiudadEmergente, an , alecturer at UDP andDirector of Manuela Garretón Health, and Portales (UDP), wereDiego Sebastián Pavlovic, Superintendent of other speakers The at this event,and economic growth. which was held at Universidad Wellbeing"Measure Experiences: ToolsIn addition,she spoke at the seminar "Visualizing toCope with Agingand reviewing Chile's pension system. David Bravo , which is currently Commission onPensions, led by to address the Presidential Advisory wasProfessor alsoinvited Staudinger Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs). the Association of President of and allChileans, of around three-quarters health insurerwhich isused by Health Fund (FONASA), thestate the National Vega, Director of on aging. included Jeanette They met with local authorities andexperts During her visit, Professor Staudinger Technological Research (CONICYT). ScientificCommission for and by ColumbiaandChile's National the Columbia-Chile Fund established Americans andChileans”, financed by Older Outcomes andHealthy of Behavior TimingonHealth Retirement of Effects Health? Causal Optimize Retirement Does the project “When framework of January. Her visit took place inthe of Center, was inChile at the beginning the Robert N. Butler ColumbiaAging M. Staudinger, Director of Ursula Director of Columbia’s Aging Centerin Chile Newsletter Africa Asia |East |Europe |Latin |Middle America |SouthAsia East |Turkey Rodrígo Mackenna Pérez ,
about the phenomenon of aging in a context of demographic change change demographic aginginacontext of about the phenomenon of
Ursula Staudinger at UDP at Staudinger Ursula Addressing Pension Commission Pension Addressing Local Prospects for Solar Technology and Education Columbia Alumnus Presents Thesis on Sports and Politics Professor Ellen B. Meier, Director of the Center for representatives were guided in the design of responsible Energy Development Daniel Matamala, a journalist and news anchorman at Technology and School Change (CTSC) of Columbia responses to data and learned about data-informed In January, Professor Vasilis M. Director of SERC Chile, an initiative CNN Chile, presented the thesis "Power Games: How University's Teachers College, traveled to Chile in leadership. Fthenakis, Founder and Director of formed by Universidad de Chile, Sports Help to Elect Presidents, Run Campaigns and January to participate in the IV Inter-American Columbia University's Center for Life Universidad de Tarapacá, Universidad Promote Wars” with which he earned his Master of Arts in Educational Summit on School Management and e CTSC was established in 1996 in response to a Cycle Analysis and an international de Antofagasta, Universidad Técnica Journalism at Columbia University in 2012. e Leadership organized by Universidad Católica de Chile. growing need in education to understand the role of expert on renewable energy grid Federico Santa María, Universidad technology in the classroom. Today, it works with school presentation was followed by comments from Chile's During the Summit, she gave a lecture on " e integration and photovoltaic Adolfo Ibáñez, Universidad de communities and educational organizations to Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz and the Dean of Transformative Potential of Technology". technologies, visited Chile where he Concepción and the Fundación Chile transform the design of school learning environments. Rodrigo Palma; Karen Poniachik, Director Santiago Student A airs at Columbia Journalism School, Ernest attended meetings with government technology transfer institute. During the Summit, Professor Center; and Vasilis Fthenakis Sotomayor. o cials, policy-makers and local Meier also led a workshop on Professor Ellen Meier also took researchers on solar energy development. CNIC and SERC Chile invited "Leading with Numbers: Using advantage of her visit to Chile to In his thesis, Matamala explores the relationship between Technology Responsibly to Inform participate in a workshop for over Professor Fthenakis to visit the site of sports and politics, looking at what voters' favorite sports Instruction" in which she was forty school principals and During his visit, Columbia Global the future Solar Platform of the Atacama can tell us about their political leanings and how this is accompanied by Rita Sanchez, academic coordinators at the Centers | Latin America (Santiago), in Desert (PSDA), a project being used to great e ect in election campaigns. He nds that - Coordinator of International Centro Politécnico de Ñuñoa in conjunction with the Solar Energy developed by Universidad de unlike soccer in Europe or Latin America which cuts Professional Development at Santiago. is activity was Research Center (SERC Chile) and Antofagasta and the Antofagasta Energy across social barriers - sports in the United States can be CTSC. At the hands-on sponsored and organized by Chile’s National Council on Innovation Development Center (CDEA) to create Daniel Matamala, Heraldo Muñoz and Ernest Sotomayor divided into "red" and "blue". workshop, local teachers, school Chile's Gabriela Mistral for Competitiveness (CNIC), hosted a a research facility and natural laboratory managers, trainers and NGO Educational Foundation. business workshop entitled "New for solar energy technologies in northern Developments in the Renewable Energy Chile. While in Antofagasta, Professor Seminar on the international Gonzalo Rivas, President, CNIC Drought Symposium Professor Meier at Universidad Católica Markets: A Solar Grand Plan for Chile". Fthenakis also visited the Coya Sur financial architecture e event, which targeted investors, was lithium mine where the sun's action is co-sponsored by the Chilean-North used to concentrate sodium nitrate Dean Pippenger in Santiago Thomas Trebat on the future e International Research Institute for Climate In an event co-sponsored with local Her presentation at the seminar, of Brazil American Chamber of Commerce solutions. and Society (IRI) of Columbia University's Earth think-tank CIEPLAN, Professor which took place last November, (AmCham), the Chilean Association of Institute was one of the organizers of the Stephany Gri th-Jones, Financial was followed by comments from In early November 2014, Michael Pippenger, Dean of On October 26, omas J. Trebat, an economist and Renewable Energies (ACERA), the local In Santiago, Professor Fthenakis visited International Expert Symposium “Coping with Markets Program Director at Manuel Marfán, senior fellow at Undergraduate Global Programs, visited Santiago to Director of Columbia Global Centers | Latin America Solar Energy Association (ACESOL), Fundación Chile and the Center for Droughts” which took place in Santiago last Columbia University's Initiative for CIEPLAN, and Pablo García, a November. Speakers at the event included Walter explore possible study abroad programs for Columbia (Rio de Janeiro), o ered a conference on " e Future of the Chilean Association of Energy Sustainable Energy Innovation and Policy Dialogue (IPD), spoke at the member of the Board of Governors E. Baethgen, Senior Research Scientist and leader Brazil and its Implications for Latin America" Generators and the Chilean Association Promotion (CIFES), the government seminar “ e New Role of China and of Chile’s Central Bank. University undergraduate students and other joint in which of the Latin America and the Caribbean Program of Electricity Distribution and agency responsible for advising the the BRICS Bank in the International academic projects with local universities. he analyzed Brazil's political and economic outlook at the IRI. following the election of President Dilma Rousse for Transmission Companies. Economic Development Agency René Muga, Executive Vice-President, Generadoras Financial Architecture". e new Founded in 2000 by Nobel Laureate (CORFO) and other public institutions de Chile; Paula Estevez, Head of International Joseph Stiglitz, the IPD is a global During his visit, he met with representatives of a second term. e event was organized jointly by e Symposium, which was followed by a two-day bank, whose creation was Fthenakis presentation was followed by on matters relating to renewable Division, Energy Ministry; Juan Somavía, network of leading economists, Universidad Católica, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Columbia Global Centers | Latin America (Santiago) training course for water-related stakeholders, was announced in July 2014 by Brazil, Government Relations and External A airs Manager political scientists and academic and Diego Portales and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He also and Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) as part of the comments from Rodrigo Palma, energies. designed to create a community of practice to Russia, India, China and South - Copper, Anglo American policy centers that seeks to broaden visited the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in two organizations' program of public policy meetings. support the development and use of water Africa, would nance infrastructure policy dialogue on major order to discuss possible internships and short courses for Ernesto Ottone, a lecturer at UDP and Director of its information tools. and sustainable development Workshop on Film Production international development issues. Columbia College students. Globalization and Democracy Program, also spoke at projects. the event. In 2014, Walter Baethgen was awarded funding In January, Michael P. Hausman, Adjunct Viña del Mar's municipal government, that from Columbia University's President's Global Professor of Film at Columbia's Faculty of seeks to promote audiovisual creation in the Innovation Fund (PGIF) for a project entitled the Arts and an important lm producer, Valparaíso Region and its insertion into "Fostering a Community of Practice around Drought o ered a workshop entitled "Fiction Films: international circuits. Information Tools". Its aim is to create a Drought Production, Creation of Networks and Information Community of Practice (DICoP) bringing together researchers and practitioners Collaborative Work" during the Film Festival During a long and distinguished career in who are working to improve the development and of Viña del Mar. the lm industry, Professor Hausman has delivery of drought information for worked as executive producer of lms that decision-making in Chile, Kenya and Jordan. e event was organized by Valparaíso include Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), Creativo, an initiative nanced by the Amadeus (Milos Forman) and Gangs of An IRI video on Chile's water challenges, "Managing Water in a Dry Land: Lessons from Michael Pippenger; Gisele Feldman, Program O cer, government's Economic Development New York (Martin Scorsese). Chile's Elqui Valley", can be seen on the Santiago Santiago Center; Ricardo Brodsky, Executive Director, Agency (CORFO) and implemented by Center's website Museum of Memory and Human Rights; and Rodrigo Ernesto Ottone, UDP’s Esteban Calvo and (http://globalcenters.columbia.edu/santiago/) Cabello, Education O cer at the Museum omas Trebat Stephany Gri th-Jones, Manuel Marfán and Pablo García Local Prospects for Solar Technology and Education Columbia Alumnus Presents Thesis on Sports and Politics Professor Ellen B. Meier, Director of the Center for representatives were guided in the design of responsible Energy Development Daniel Matamala, a journalist and news anchorman at Technology and School Change (CTSC) of Columbia responses to data and learned about data-informed In January, Professor Vasilis M. Director of SERC Chile, an initiative CNN Chile, presented the thesis "Power Games: How University's Teachers College, traveled to Chile in leadership. Fthenakis, Founder and Director of formed by Universidad de Chile, Sports Help to Elect Presidents, Run Campaigns and January to participate in the IV Inter-American Columbia University's Center for Life Universidad de Tarapacá, Universidad Promote Wars” with which he earned his Master of Arts in Educational Summit on School Management and e CTSC was established in 1996 in response to a Cycle Analysis and an international de Antofagasta, Universidad Técnica Journalism at Columbia University in 2012. e Leadership organized by Universidad Católica de Chile. growing need in education to understand the role of expert on renewable energy grid Federico Santa María, Universidad technology in the classroom. Today, it works with school presentation was followed by comments from Chile's During the Summit, she gave a lecture on " e integration and photovoltaic Adolfo Ibáñez, Universidad de communities and educational organizations to Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz and the Dean of Transformative Potential of Technology". technologies, visited Chile where he Concepción and the Fundación Chile transform the design of school learning environments. Rodrigo Palma; Karen Poniachik, Director Santiago Student A airs at Columbia Journalism School, Ernest attended meetings with government technology transfer institute. During the Summit, Professor Center; and Vasilis Fthenakis Sotomayor. o cials, policy-makers and local Meier also led a workshop on Professor Ellen Meier also took researchers on solar energy development. CNIC and SERC Chile invited "Leading with Numbers: Using advantage of her visit to Chile to In his thesis, Matamala explores the relationship between Technology Responsibly to Inform participate in a workshop for over Professor Fthenakis to visit the site of sports and politics, looking at what voters' favorite sports Instruction" in which she was forty school principals and During his visit, Columbia Global the future Solar Platform of the Atacama can tell us about their political leanings and how this is accompanied by Rita Sanchez, academic coordinators at the Centers | Latin America (Santiago), in Desert (PSDA), a project being used to great e ect in election campaigns. He nds that - Coordinator of International Centro Politécnico de Ñuñoa in conjunction with the Solar Energy developed by Universidad de unlike soccer in Europe or Latin America which cuts Professional Development at Santiago. is activity was Research Center (SERC Chile) and Antofagasta and the Antofagasta Energy across social barriers - sports in the United States can be CTSC. At the hands-on sponsored and organized by Chile’s National Council on Innovation Development Center (CDEA) to create Daniel Matamala, Heraldo Muñoz and Ernest Sotomayor divided into "red" and "blue". workshop, local teachers, school Chile's Gabriela Mistral for Competitiveness (CNIC), hosted a a research facility and natural laboratory managers, trainers and NGO Educational Foundation. business workshop entitled "New for solar energy technologies in northern Developments in the Renewable Energy Chile. While in Antofagasta, Professor Seminar on the international Gonzalo Rivas, President, CNIC Drought Symposium Professor Meier at Universidad Católica Markets: A Solar Grand Plan for Chile". Fthenakis also visited the Coya Sur financial architecture e event, which targeted investors, was lithium mine where the sun's action is co-sponsored by the Chilean-North used to concentrate sodium nitrate Dean Pippenger in Santiago Thomas Trebat on the future e International Research Institute for Climate In an event co-sponsored with local Her presentation at the seminar, of Brazil American Chamber of Commerce solutions. and Society (IRI) of Columbia University's Earth think-tank CIEPLAN, Professor which took place last November, (AmCham), the Chilean Association of Institute was one of the organizers of the Stephany Gri th-Jones, Financial was followed by comments from In early November 2014, Michael Pippenger, Dean of On October 26, omas J. Trebat, an economist and Renewable Energies (ACERA), the local In Santiago, Professor Fthenakis visited International Expert Symposium “Coping with Markets Program Director at Manuel Marfán, senior fellow at Undergraduate Global Programs, visited Santiago to Director of Columbia Global Centers | Latin America Solar Energy Association (ACESOL), Fundación Chile and the Center for Droughts” which took place in Santiago last Columbia University's Initiative for CIEPLAN, and Pablo García, a November. Speakers at the event included Walter explore possible study abroad programs for Columbia (Rio de Janeiro), o ered a conference on " e Future of the Chilean Association of Energy Sustainable Energy Innovation and Policy Dialogue (IPD), spoke at the member of the Board of Governors E. Baethgen, Senior Research Scientist and leader Brazil and its Implications for Latin America" Generators and the Chilean Association Promotion (CIFES), the government seminar “ e New Role of China and of Chile’s Central Bank. University undergraduate students and other joint in which of the Latin America and the Caribbean Program of Electricity Distribution and agency responsible for advising the the BRICS Bank in the International academic projects with local universities. he analyzed Brazil's political and economic outlook at the IRI. following the election of President Dilma Rousse for Transmission Companies. Economic Development Agency René Muga, Executive Vice-President, Generadoras Financial Architecture". e new Founded in 2000 by Nobel Laureate (CORFO) and other public institutions de Chile; Paula Estevez, Head of International Joseph Stiglitz, the IPD is a global During his visit, he met with representatives of a second term. e event was organized jointly by e Symposium, which was followed by a two-day bank, whose creation was Fthenakis presentation was followed by on matters relating to renewable Division, Energy Ministry; Juan Somavía, network of leading economists, Universidad Católica, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Columbia Global Centers | Latin America (Santiago) training course for water-related stakeholders, was announced in July 2014 by Brazil, Government Relations and External A airs Manager political scientists and academic and Diego Portales and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He also and Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) as part of the comments from Rodrigo Palma, energies. designed to create a community of practice to Russia, India, China and South - Copper, Anglo American policy centers that seeks to broaden visited the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in two organizations' program of public policy meetings. support the development and use of water Africa, would nance infrastructure policy dialogue on major order to discuss possible internships and short courses for Ernesto Ottone, a lecturer at UDP and Director of its information tools. and sustainable development Workshop on Film Prduction international development issues. Columbia College students. Globalization and Democracy Program, also spoke at projects. the event. In 2014, Walter Baethgen was awarded funding In January, Michael P. Hausman, Adjunct Viña del Mar's municipal government, that from Columbia University's President's Global Professor of Film at Columbia's Faculty of seeks to promote audiovisual creation in the Innovation Fund (PGIF) for a project entitled the Arts and an important lm producer, Valparaíso Region and its insertion into "Fostering a Community of Practice around Drought o ered a workshop entitled "Fiction Films: international circuits. Information Tools". Its aim is to create a Drought Production, Creation of Networks and Information Community of Practice (DICoP) bringing together researchers and practitioners Collaborative Work" during the Film Festival During a long and distinguished career in who are working to improve the development and of Viña del Mar. the lm industry, Professor Hausman has delivery of drought information for worked as executive producer of lms that decision-making in Chile, Kenya and Jordan. e event was organized by Valparaíso include Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), Creativo, an initiative nanced by the Amadeus (Milos Forman) and Gangs of An IRI video on Chile's water challenges, "Managing Water in a Dry Land: Lessons from Michael Pippenger; Gisele Feldman, Program O cer, government's Economic Development New York (Martin Scorsese). Chile's Elqui Valley", can be seen on the Santiago Santiago Center; Ricardo Brodsky, Executive Director, Agency (CORFO) and implemented by Center's website Museum of Memory and Human Rights; and Rodrigo Ernesto Ottone, UDP’s Esteban Calvo and (http://globalcenters.columbia.edu/santiago/) Cabello, Education O cer at the Museum omas Trebat Stephany Gri th-Jones, Manuel Marfán and Pablo García Hwang Yoon (SIPA) andAlexanderHazbun Columbia University alumni meeting with the support ofColumbiaGlobal Centers|LatinAmerica with thesupport the New York-based ColumbiaAlumni Association (CAA), (Law School)andGraciela Ibáñez School)and (Journalism go's Vitacura district.Organized by María delPilar Duarte took placelastNovember atthe Taringa restaurant inSantia- e latestgatheringofColumbiaUniversity alumniinChile Chile. Business atColumbia,togetherwithMarcelo Olivares, aprofessor ofIndustrial attheDepartment Engineering atUniversidad de A. Weintraub oftheColumbia-Chile Fund.with thesupport isproject isledby Gabriel , Sidney Taurel AssociateProfessor of took placeinthecontextof project “Public Procurement Mechanisms: From Practice toResearch (andBack Again)” implemented emphasisonlessonslearnedforpractitioners andpolicy-makers.Histo patientsfororgantransplants, withaparticular trip toChile Professor Leshnotalkedaboutsuccessfulapplications,rangingfrom theallocationofstudentstoschoolsmatchingdonors participants. problems inwhichmoneycannotbeusedtoincentivize in particular, ofmatchingmechanismsforallocation andpracticeofmarket design and, advances inthetheory and Other Applications" in which he discussed recent entitled Columbia University's Business Schoolgave alecture On December 22,Professor Jacob D.Leshnofrom Lecture by Professor Jacob Leshno Baytelman (LAW) andRobert Currie Bernardita Subiabre (SEAS),Andrés "Market Design: Lessonsfrom SchoolChoiceSystems (SIPA) (LAW) Phone: +56-2-22283600 - Email: [email protected] -Twitter:Phone: +56-2-22283600 -Email:[email protected] @ColumbiaChile Av. 3269,1st Floor, Chile7630000 - Hammarskjold Vitacura, Santiago Dag Contact Us | Columbia Global Centers | Latin America(Santiago) Contact Us | ColumbiaGlobal Centers María delPilar Duarte (LAW) andGraciela Hazbun (SIPA), RandalFahs (SIPA) and Jose na Consiglio(LAW), Alexander ©2015 Columbia University Ricardo Alvial(SIPA) Ibáñez (Journalism)
gthen theirties. networking amongColumbiaUniversity graduatesandstren- that more suchactivitiesshouldtakeplaceinorder tofacilitate and across di erent generations.At theevent, itwasagreed (Santiago), itwasattendedby alumnifrom di erent programs Gabriel A. Weintraub A. Gabriel Ignacio Montero (TC), Pamela López (Business) andIván Bertrand-Galindo Jaime Salas (LAW), Santiago Munita
(TC) andJorge Cifuentes(TC) Jacob D. Leshno D. Jacob
(LAW). Marcelo Olivares Marcelo ainlUiest fSingapore’s LindaJ.. Kenney National University of event University's aswell asHarvard David Claphamand E. postdoctoral researcher AndrésRivas Columbia University’s Professor Michael Sheetz and was co-sponsored by Chile’s Fundación Ciencia y Vida. Biological Sciences, Columbia’s of Department of Fernández Research project, led by (CONICYT). The Professor Julio M. National Commission for Scientific and Technological Columbia-Chile Fund, created by ColumbiaandChile's financed by that was the partly on mechanobiology hosted aunique symposium andworkshopAmerica (Santiago) On December 11-12, ColumbiaGlobalCenters |Latin Symposium &Workshop on Mechanobiology research activities. the University’s eight Global Centers for teachingmore of or for faculty wishing to use the ty's President Lee C.Bollinger, designed to provide support Fund (PGIF), launched inMarch2013by- ColumbiaUniversi project funded through the President’s GlobalInnovation with other universities andcompanies. Its launch ispart ofa ty will generate waste recycling andenergy recovery projects chapter of WTERT through which UDD's Engineering Facul - The event served asthe opportunity to launch the Chilean Ministry. Faculty, the EarthEngineering Center, andthe Chilean Energy (Santiago), Universidad del Desarrollo’s (UDD) Engineering organized byColumbiaGlobalCenters |Latin America workshop on"Sustainable WasteManagement inLatinAmerica" local authorities andexperts. He was the key speaker at a Council (WTERT), visited Chile lastSeptember to meet with University-based Waste-to-Energy Research andTechnology University's Earth Engineering Center andChairofthe Professor Professor Themelis Speaks on Waste Management Nickolas J.Themelis
resources or facilities of one or one or resources or facilities of , Director ofColumbia also participated inthe alsoparticipated Torrealba and Carolina Raúl Pérez-Jiménez Daniel Guerra, Christian Wilson, Michael Sheetz, Linda Keeney, Julio Fernández, David Clapham, Andrés Rivas, Pablo Valenzuela, also discussed aspotential clusters forpilot programs. Vitacura and La Pintana districts were in Santiago's efforts waste recycling and householdindustrial waste. Examples of separating the New York experience of City government's Sandwich, MA,aswell as histown of landfills andwaste of discussed the experience with theDuring meeting, Themelis waste into energy. Rodrigo Palma of , which focused onthe transformation SERC's Director, meeting chaired by ina participated institute, where he transfer technology Fundación Chile universities andthe by sixlocal formed (SERC Chile), Research Center Solar Energy also visited the Professor Themelis drug development. drug to mechanical forces, providing anentirely new perspective on proteins target discover compounds that affect the response of developing mechanopharmacology, anew field which aimsto products. workshop The sought to explore the possibility of translating it into beneficial research but alsothe of challenges Participants not only about the state of were able to learn its kindinChile. single-molecule levels, was the first of pioneered this new science at both the cellular and event, who haveThe which experts brought together seminar andthe workshop that followed the mainlectures. Faculty andstudents fromlocal universities alsoattended the Fernández with Julio y Vida, Ciencia Fundación Co-Founder of Director and Scienti c Valenzuela, Pablo emelis Nickolas
February 2015 | 003 participation. participation. that seeks to promote innovativeorganization urban development with citizen CiudadEmergente, an , alecturer at UDP andDirector of Manuela Garretón Health, and Portales (UDP), wereDiego Sebastián Pavlovic, Superintendent of other speakers The at this event,and economic growth. which was held at Universidad Wellbeing"Measure Experiences: ToolsIn addition,she spoke at the seminar "Visualizing toCope with Agingand reviewing Chile's pension system. David Bravo , which is currently Commission onPensions, led by to address the Presidential Advisory wasProfessor alsoinvited Staudinger Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs). the Association of President of and allChileans, of around three-quarters health insurerwhich isused by Health Fund (FONASA), thestate the National Vega, Director of on aging. included Jeanette They met with local authorities andexperts During her visit, Professor Staudinger Technological Research (CONICYT). ScientificCommission for and by ColumbiaandChile's National the Columbia-Chile Fund established Americans andChileans”, financed by Older Outcomes andHealthy of Behavior TimingonHealth Retirement of Effects Health? Causal Optimize Retirement Does the project “When framework of January. Her visit took place inthe of Center, was inChile at the beginning the Robert N. Butler ColumbiaAging M. Staudinger, Director of Ursula Director of Columbia’s Aging Centerin Chile Newsletter Africa Asia |East |Europe |Latin |Middle America |SouthAsia East |Turkey Rodrígo Mackenna Pérez ,
about the phenomenon of aging in a context of demographic change change demographic aginginacontext of about the phenomenon of
Addressing Pension Commission Pension Addressing UDP at Staudinger Ursula Local Prospects for Solar Technology and Education Columbia Alumnus Presents Thesis on Sports and Politics Professor Ellen B. Meier, Director of the Center for representatives were guided in the design of responsible Energy Development Daniel Matamala, a journalist and news anchorman at Technology and School Change (CTSC) of Columbia responses to data and learned about data-informed In January, Professor Vasilis M. Director of SERC Chile, an initiative CNN Chile, presented the thesis "Power Games: How University's Teachers College, traveled to Chile in leadership. Fthenakis, Founder and Director of formed by Universidad de Chile, Sports Help to Elect Presidents, Run Campaigns and January to participate in the IV Inter-American Columbia University's Center for Life Universidad de Tarapacá, Universidad Promote Wars” with which he earned his Master of Arts in Educational Summit on School Management and e CTSC was established in 1996 in response to a Cycle Analysis and an international de Antofagasta, Universidad Técnica Journalism at Columbia University in 2012. e Leadership organized by Universidad Católica de Chile. growing need in education to understand the role of expert on renewable energy grid Federico Santa María, Universidad technology in the classroom. Today, it works with school presentation was followed by comments from Chile's During the Summit, she gave a lecture on " e integration and photovoltaic Adolfo Ibáñez, Universidad de communities and educational organizations to Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz and the Dean of Transformative Potential of Technology". technologies, visited Chile where he Concepción and the Fundación Chile transform the design of school learning environments. Rodrigo Palma; Karen Poniachik, Director Santiago Student A airs at Columbia Journalism School, Ernest attended meetings with government technology transfer institute. During the Summit, Professor Center; and Vasilis Fthenakis Sotomayor. o cials, policy-makers and local Meier also led a workshop on Professor Ellen Meier also took researchers on solar energy development. CNIC and SERC Chile invited "Leading with Numbers: Using advantage of her visit to Chile to In his thesis, Matamala explores the relationship between Technology Responsibly to Inform participate in a workshop for over Professor Fthenakis to visit the site of sports and politics, looking at what voters' favorite sports Instruction" in which she was forty school principals and During his visit, Columbia Global the future Solar Platform of the Atacama can tell us about their political leanings and how this is accompanied by Rita Sanchez, academic coordinators at the Centers | Latin America (Santiago), in Desert (PSDA), a project being used to great e ect in election campaigns. He nds that - Coordinator of International Centro Politécnico de Ñuñoa in conjunction with the Solar Energy developed by Universidad de unlike soccer in Europe or Latin America which cuts Professional Development at Santiago. is activity was Research Center (SERC Chile) and Antofagasta and the Antofagasta Energy across social barriers - sports in the United States can be CTSC. At the hands-on sponsored and organized by Chile’s National Council on Innovation Development Center (CDEA) to create Daniel Matamala, Heraldo Muñoz and Ernest Sotomayor divided into "red" and "blue". workshop, local teachers, school Chile's Gabriela Mistral for Competitiveness (CNIC), hosted a a research facility and natural laboratory managers, trainers and NGO Educational Foundation. business workshop entitled "New for solar energy technologies in northern Developments in the Renewable Energy Chile. While in Antofagasta, Professor Seminar on the international Gonzalo Rivas, President, CNIC Drought Symposium Professor Meier at Universidad Católica Markets: A Solar Grand Plan for Chile". Fthenakis also visited the Coya Sur financial architecture e event, which targeted investors, was lithium mine where the sun's action is co-sponsored by the Chilean-North used to concentrate sodium nitrate Dean Pippenger in Santiago Thomas Trebat on the future e International Research Institute for Climate In an event co-sponsored with local Her presentation at the seminar, of Brazil American Chamber of Commerce solutions. and Society (IRI) of Columbia University's Earth think-tank CIEPLAN, Professor which took place last November, (AmCham), the Chilean Association of Institute was one of the organizers of the Stephany Gri th-Jones, Financial was followed by comments from In early November 2014, Michael Pippenger, Dean of On October 26, omas J. Trebat, an economist and Renewable Energies (ACERA), the local In Santiago, Professor Fthenakis visited International Expert Symposium “Coping with Markets Program Director at Manuel Marfán, senior fellow at Undergraduate Global Programs, visited Santiago to Director of Columbia Global Centers | Latin America Solar Energy Association (ACESOL), Fundación Chile and the Center for Droughts” which took place in Santiago last Columbia University's Initiative for CIEPLAN, and Pablo García, a November. Speakers at the event included Walter explore possible study abroad programs for Columbia (Rio de Janeiro), o ered a conference on " e Future of the Chilean Association of Energy Sustainable Energy Innovation and Policy Dialogue (IPD), spoke at the member of the Board of Governors E. Baethgen, Senior Research Scientist and leader Brazil and its Implications for Latin America" Generators and the Chilean Association Promotion (CIFES), the government seminar “ e New Role of China and of Chile’s Central Bank. University undergraduate students and other joint in which of the Latin America and the Caribbean Program of Electricity Distribution and agency responsible for advising the the BRICS Bank in the International academic projects with local universities. he analyzed Brazil's political and economic outlook at the IRI. following the election of President Dilma Rousse for Transmission Companies. Economic Development Agency René Muga, Executive Vice-President, Generadoras Financial Architecture". e new Founded in 2000 by Nobel Laureate (CORFO) and other public institutions de Chile; Paula Estevez, Head of International Joseph Stiglitz, the IPD is a global During his visit, he met with representatives of a second term. e event was organized jointly by e Symposium, which was followed by a two-day bank, whose creation was Fthenakis presentation was followed by on matters relating to renewable Division, Energy Ministry; Juan Somavía, network of leading economists, Universidad Católica, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Columbia Global Centers | Latin America (Santiago) training course for water-related stakeholders, was announced in July 2014 by Brazil, Government Relations and External A airs Manager political scientists and academic and Diego Portales and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He also and Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) as part of the comments from Rodrigo Palma, energies. designed to create a community of practice to Russia, India, China and South - Copper, Anglo American policy centers that seeks to broaden visited the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in two organizations' program of public policy meetings. support the development and use of water Africa, would nance infrastructure policy dialogue on major order to discuss possible internships and short courses for Ernesto Ottone, a lecturer at UDP and Director of its information tools. and sustainable development Workshop on Film Prduction international development issues. Columbia College students. Globalization and Democracy Program, also spoke at projects. the event. In 2014, Walter Baethgen was awarded funding In January, Michael P. Hausman, Adjunct Viña del Mar's municipal government, that from Columbia University's President's Global Professor of Film at Columbia's Faculty of seeks to promote audiovisual creation in the Innovation Fund (PGIF) for a project entitled the Arts and an important lm producer, Valparaíso Region and its insertion into "Fostering a Community of Practice around Drought o ered a workshop entitled "Fiction Films: international circuits. Information Tools". Its aim is to create a Drought Production, Creation of Networks and Information Community of Practice (DICoP) bringing together researchers and practitioners Collaborative Work" during the Film Festival During a long and distinguished career in who are working to improve the development and of Viña del Mar. the lm industry, Professor Hausman has delivery of drought information for worked as executive producer of lms that decision-making in Chile, Kenya and Jordan. e event was organized by Valparaíso include Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), Creativo, an initiative nanced by the Amadeus (Milos Forman) and Gangs of An IRI video on Chile's water challenges, "Managing Water in a Dry Land: Lessons from Michael Pippenger; Gisele Feldman, Program O cer, government's Economic Development New York (Martin Scorsese). Chile's Elqui Valley", can be seen on the Santiago Santiago Center; Ricardo Brodsky, Executive Director, Agency (CORFO) and implemented by Center's website Museum of Memory and Human Rights; and Rodrigo Ernesto Ottone, UDP’s Esteban Calvo and (http://globalcenters.columbia.edu/santiago/) Cabello, Education O cer at the Museum omas Trebat Stephany Gri th-Jones, Manuel Marfán and Pablo García Hwang Yoon (SIPA) andAlexanderHazbun Columbia University alumni meeting with the support ofColumbiaGlobal Centers|LatinAmerica with thesupport the New York-based ColumbiaAlumni Association (CAA), (Law School)andGraciela Ibáñez School)and (Journalism go's Vitacura district.Organized by María delPilar Duarte took placelastNovember atthe Taringa restaurant inSantia- e latestgatheringofColumbiaUniversity alumniinChile Chile. Business atColumbia,togetherwithMarcelo Olivares, aprofessor ofIndustrial attheDepartment Engineering atUniversidad de A. Weintraub oftheColumbia-Chile Fund.with thesupport isproject isledby Gabriel , Sidney Taurel AssociateProfessor of took placeinthecontextof project “Public Procurement Mechanisms: From Practice toResearch (andBack Again)” implemented emphasisonlessonslearnedforpractitioners andpolicy-makers.Histo patientsfororgantransplants, withaparticular trip toChile Professor Leshnotalkedaboutsuccessfulapplications,rangingfrom theallocationofstudentstoschoolsmatchingdonors participants. problems inwhichmoneycannotbeusedtoincentivize in particular, ofmatchingmechanismsforallocation andpracticeofmarket design and, advances inthetheory and Other Applications" in which he discussed recent entitled Columbia University's Business Schoolgave alecture On December 22,Professor Jacob D.Leshnofrom Lecture by Professor Jacob Leshno Baytelman (LAW) andRobert Currie Bernardita Subiabre (SEAS),Andrés "Market Design: Lessonsfrom SchoolChoiceSystems (SIPA) (LAW) Phone: +56-2-22283600 - Email: [email protected] -Twitter:Phone: +56-2-22283600 -Email:[email protected] @ColumbiaChile Av. 3269,1st Floor, Chile7630000 - Hammarskjold Vitacura, Santiago Dag Contact Us | Columbia Global Centers | Latin America(Santiago) Contact Us | ColumbiaGlobal Centers María delPilar Duarte (LAW) andGraciela Hazbun (SIPA), RandalFahs (SIPA) and Jose na Consiglio(LAW), Alexander ©2015 Columbia University Ricardo Alvial(SIPA) Ibáñez (Journalism)
gthen theirties. networking amongColumbiaUniversity graduatesandstren- that more suchactivitiesshouldtakeplaceinorder tofacilitate and across di erent generations.At theevent, itwasagreed (Santiago), itwasattendedby alumnifrom di erent programs Gabriel A. Weintraub A. Gabriel Ignacio Montero (TC), Pamela López (Business) andIván Bertrand-Galindo Jaime Salas (LAW), Santiago Munita
(TC) andJorge Cifuentes(TC) Jacob D. Leshno D. Jacob
(LAW). Marcelo Olivares Marcelo ainlUiest fSingapore’s LindaJ.. Kenney National University of event University's aswell asHarvard David Claphamand E. postdoctoral researcher AndrésRivas Columbia University’s Professor Michael Sheetz and was co-sponsored by Chile’s Fundación Ciencia y Vida. Biological Sciences, Columbia’s of Department of Fernández Research project, led by (CONICYT). The Professor Julio M. National Commission for Scientific and Technological Columbia-Chile Fund, created by ColumbiaandChile's financed by that was the partly on mechanobiology hosted aunique symposium andworkshopAmerica (Santiago) On December 11-12, ColumbiaGlobalCenters |Latin Symposium &Workshop on Mechanobiology research activities. the University’s eight Global Centers for teachingmore of or for faculty wishing to use the ty's President Lee C.Bollinger, designed to provide support Fund (PGIF), launched inMarch2013by- ColumbiaUniversi project funded through the President’s GlobalInnovation with other universities andcompanies. Its launch ispart ofa ty will generate waste recycling andenergy recovery projects chapter of WTERT through which UDD's Engineering Facul - The event served asthe opportunity to launch the Chilean Ministry. Faculty, the EarthEngineering Center, andthe Chilean Energy (Santiago), Universidad del Desarrollo’s (UDD) Engineering organized byColumbiaGlobalCenters |Latin America workshop on"Sustainable WasteManagement inLatinAmerica" local authorities andexperts. He was the key speaker at a Council (WTERT), visited Chile lastSeptember to meet with University-based Waste-to-Energy Research andTechnology University's Earth Engineering Center andChairofthe Professor Professor Themelis Speaks on Waste Management Nickolas J.Themelis
resources or facilities of one or one or resources or facilities of , Director ofColumbia also participated inthe alsoparticipated Torrealba and Carolina Raúl Pérez-Jiménez Daniel Guerra, Christian Wilson, Michael Sheetz, Linda Keeney, Julio Fernández, David Clapham, Andrés Rivas, Pablo Valenzuela, also discussed aspotential clusters forpilot programs. Vitacura and La Pintana districts were in Santiago's efforts waste recycling and householdindustrial waste. Examples of separating the New York experience of City government's Sandwich, MA,aswell as histown of landfills andwaste of discussed the experience with theDuring meeting, Themelis waste into energy. Rodrigo Palma of , which focused onthe transformation SERC's Director, meeting chaired by ina participated institute, where he transfer technology Fundación Chile universities andthe by sixlocal formed (SERC Chile), Research Center Solar Energy also visited the Professor Themelis drug development. drug to mechanical forces, providing anentirely new perspective on proteins target discover compounds that affect the response of developing mechanopharmacology, anew field which aimsto products. workshop The sought to explore the possibility of translating it into beneficial research but alsothe of challenges Participants not only about the state of were able to learn its kindinChile. single-molecule levels, was the first of pioneered this new science at both the cellular and event, who haveThe which experts brought together seminar andthe workshop that followed the mainlectures. Faculty andstudents fromlocal universities alsoattended the Fernández with Julio y Vida, Ciencia Fundación Co-Founder of Director and Scienti c Valenzuela, Pablo emelis Nickolas
February 2015 | 003 participation. participation. that seeks to promote innovativeorganization urban development with citizen CiudadEmergente, an , alecturer at UDP andDirector of Manuela Garretón Health, and Portales (UDP), wereDiego Sebastián Pavlovic, Superintendent of other speakers The at this event,and economic growth. which was held at Universidad Wellbeing"Measure Experiences: ToolsIn addition,she spoke at the seminar "Visualizing toCope with Agingand reviewing Chile's pension system. David Bravo , which is currently Commission onPensions, led by to address the Presidential Advisory wasProfessor alsoinvited Staudinger Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs). the Association of President of and allChileans, of around three-quarters health insurerwhich isused by Health Fund (FONASA), thestate the National Vega, Director of on aging. included Jeanette They met with local authorities andexperts During her visit, Professor Staudinger Technological Research (CONICYT). ScientificCommission for and by ColumbiaandChile's National the Columbia-Chile Fund established Americans andChileans”, financed by Older Outcomes andHealthy of Behavior TimingonHealth Retirement of Effects Health? Causal Optimize Retirement Does the project “When framework of January. Her visit took place inthe of Center, was inChile at the beginning the Robert N. Butler ColumbiaAging M. Staudinger, Director of Ursula Director of Columbia’s Aging Centerin Chile Newsletter Africa Asia |East |Europe |Latin |Middle America |SouthAsia East |Turkey Rodrígo Mackenna Pérez ,
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