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The new issue of CentUM magazine, the publication with which the University of Murcia has commemorated its centenary throughout 2015 and 2016, is dedicated to another anniversary: ​​the Esteban Romero Foundation, an initiative that for 40 years has enabled hundreds Of researchers and scientists of the Region to expand studies and develop their work in other centers of international prestige.
The magazine is the sixth issue of a publication that has commemorated during the years 2015 and 2016 the centenary of the University of Murcia, highlighting its history, evolution, facilities and some of the best known characters of those who have paraded through this center, although The last issues have been monographs on various issues: among them a publication dedicated to the first Rector of the University of Murcia, José Loustau, or another designed to disseminate the work of the most prolific inventor in Spanish history: Jerónimo de Ayanz, who patented Between the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century fifty inventions, including the submarine and the steam engine.
Gratitude of the Murcia society to a family
The new publication dedicates its 64 pages to the work of the Foundation Esteban Romero, with which the Rector José Orihuela, says that "both the University of Murcia and the society of Murcia in general have acquired a debt of gratitude with the family Romero Martinez forever. "
According to the director of the publication, Pascual Vera, "the grants offered by the Esteban Romero Foundation were for many of our best researchers, the starting point of their research career and the beginning of a dedication that, in many cases, has been prolonged For decades, serving as an initial spur to brilliant teaching, scientific, and research careers. "
Pascual Vera underlines the anecdote that on April 1, 1976, the same day that was signed in California the act of constitution of which was then a small company, Apple Computer, was signed in Murcia the act of constitution of the Foundation Esteban Romero: "None of the signatories suspected that the first would become the most important company in the world, nor among those who constituted the Foundation, they imagined that in the next four decades they would be able to boost the studies of hundreds of people in some of the Places with more prestige of the international scene ".
40 employees
The magazine has articles and contributions of 40 collaborators, including Rector Orihuela, ex-Rectors José Antonio Lozano and José Antonio Cobacho, ex-Rectors Alberto Requena and Ángel Ferrández, as well as numerous professors and researchers, Foundation, who glossed with their writings the memories of their stays in other universities and study centers of numerous countries in which they developed their research activity and learned the latest techniques of their respective specialties thanks to the scholarships of the Esteban Romero Foundation.
The magazine will be presented next Monday, January 16, at 19:00 hours, in the Hemicycle of the Faculty of Letters (Campus de la Merced), in a seminar of the Rector in which Professor Salvador Martínez Pérez, Director of the Institute of Neurosciences of Alicante, lecturing: "The Neuroscience of the 21st Century: understanding the brain from genes to memory."
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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