20010601-Investigation of 152 new Ph.D.s at the University of Navarra

The classroom Magna of the University of Navarra hosted one of the most traditional events in university life, the investiture of the doctors who have achieved the maximum academic Degree in this academic year. They are 152 new doctors who received the doctor's cap from the hands of Vice President Luis Herrera.

Colleagues from School, family members and professors accompanied the new doctors in this ceremony that the University of Navarra celebrates every year on the first Friday of June. Thirteen Schools were represented at the ceremony with their new doctors. Philosophy and Letters and Medicine contributed 25 doctors each; Pharmacy, 18; Sciences, 16; Law, 13; Communication, 12; Theology, 12; Engineering, 11; Economics, 7; Ecclesiastics of Philosophy, 6; IESE, 3; Architecture, 2; and Canon Law, 2. Forty-four percent of the new doctors are women.

In this course, the sponsor of the graduating class of doctors was Professor Modesto Santos, from the EcclesiasticalSchool Philosophy , who reminded those present that "the Degree doctorate is not an award for services rendered, but a starting point that enables you to assume functions that you have to put at the service of others".

"As men and women of your time you are called to write history day by day, page after page with your work presided over and informed by the love of truth, that truth present behind any dimension of reality, however insignificant it may seem and which you have tried to unveil in the various branches of knowledge that you have made the object of your research".

The truth is not afraid to be known, but to be forgotten.

Going deeper into this idea, Professor Santos asked his sponsored children never to be afraid of the truth: "The truth does not fear to be known, what it fears is to be forgotten, marginalized, sacrificed for the sake of interests alien to the good that the knowledge of the truth provides by itself. I would dare to say that the main problem of our time is the oblivion of truth inspired by the distrust of the power of intelligence to reach it. The constant cultivation of that field of knowledge in which today you reach the highest academic rank will be your best response and contribution to our society, so much in need of wisdom for the correct use, at the integral service of man, of its great achievements in the field of science and technology".

For his part, Alejandro Rivas Nieto , PhD in Engineering, thanked the University of Navarra, on behalf of his colleagues, for the financial aid received to reach doctorate. "Our harvest, that of each one of us, consists of a tiny but honest and transparent precious stone capable of being inserted into a magnificent and great puzzle called wisdom".

The ceremony concluded with a speech by speech from Vice President Luis Herrera, who congratulated the new doctors and mentioned the purpose of intellectual work: "The university task requires a deep and constant inquiry into reality, an endeavor that, if undertaken with courage and honesty, commits one's whole life and makes the ideal of truth a noble aspiration worth sacrificing for.

The presence of professors from different Schools gave rise to the Vice President to talk about the multidisciplinarity, so fashionable today, but already mentioned in the Partidas of Alfonso X the Wise. "There are many initiatives in the fields of both research and teaching that are leading us towards the community of knowledge, but challenge is not easy. What is at stake is the ability to have an overall vision of the person and society that allows us to fully integrate the truths of our own scientific field".

TECHNICAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Juan Carlos Coll Barreu
Carlos Labarta Aizpún

School OF SCIENCES
Beatriz Apesteguía Goñi
María Elena Baigorri Arce
Eva María Bandrés Elizalde
Eduardo Domingo De Miguel
María Victoria Domínguez Muñoz
Carlos García Mateo
Javier Margareto Sánchez
Clemente Javier Palacios Díez
Miguel Angel Pelacho Aja
Raquel Pérez Barbachano
María Luisa Ramón Sáenz
Susana Ravassa Albéniz
María de las Mercedes Reboredo Prol
Ernesto José Sanz Arigita
María Begoña Vázquez Araujo
Natalia Zabalegui Merino

School OF COMMUNICATION
Mariángeles Artázcoz López
Noemí Batista Maymus
Marie Katharine De Mooij
Andrés Garay Albújar
Eileen Hudson Frías
José María La Porte Fernández-Alfaro
Luisa Peirano Basso
Julián Rodríguez Pardo
Fernando Javier Ruiz
María Teresa Sádaba Garraza
Alfonso Vara Miguel
Ernesto Villanueva Villanueva

School OF LAW
Inés María Arriaga Iraburu
Salvador Cárdenas Gutiérrez
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Leopoldo Juan García Ruiz
Luis Javier Larraya Ruiz
Elena Lasaosa Irigoyen
Olga López Vera
José Antonio Lozano Díez
Claudia Cecilia Morán Morales
Rafael Rodríguez Ocaña
Ángel María Ruiz de Apodaca Espinosa
Javier Sáenz de Olazagoitia Díaz de Cerio
María Blanca Torrubia Chalmeta

Canon Law
Wojciech Lipka
Zbigniew Tracz

technical school OF ENGINEERS
Roque José Berenguer Pérez
Edison Alfredo Bonifaz Conto
Alberto Echeverría Zubiría
Ainhoa Galarza Rodríguez
Aitor Galarza Rodríguez
Óscar Jesús González Alcántara
Isabel Marina González Farias
Rafael Muñoz Beltrán
Alejandro Rivas Nieto
José Ignacio Rodríguez Garrido
María Teresa Salustiano Esnoz

School ECCLESIASTIC OF PHILOSOPHY
Marcin Czajkowski
Santiago De La Cierva Alvarez Sotomayor
Euclides de Jesús Eslava Gómez
Mark Telford Georges
Ángel Gómez-Hortigüela Amillo
Alberto Nafarrate Susaeta

School OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS SCIENCES
José Luis Alvarez Arce
Justo Paul Iván Corcuera
Ramón Díaz Bernardo
Ignacio Falgueras Sorauren
Gonzalo Eduardo Gómez Betancourt
Maximilian Baron Torres
Manuel Jesús Vega Gordillo

School FROM Philosophy AND LETTERS
Miren Itziar Aragüés Cemboráin
Marta Braga
María de la Navidad Canga Armayor
Carlos Chocarro Bujanda
María Luisa Durán Los Arcos
Maria Rosa Escude Pont
Paulo Sergio Faitanin
María Ángeles García de Borbolla García Paredes
María Sonia Lara Ros
Raquel Lázaro Cantero
Juan López Tabar
Luis Xavier López Farjeat
Carolina Matellanes Marcos
Francisco Javier Miranda Martín
María Teresa Otal Piedrafita
Carlos Gustavo Pardo Vargas
Salvador Piá Tarazona
Rui Luis Braga Prisco Ribeiro
Guillermo Suárez Noriega
Marta Torregrosa Puig
Julia María Urabayen Pérez
Daniel Vela Valldecabres
Héctor Velázquez Fernández
Amparo Vélez Ramírez
Amaya Zulaica Orozco

School OF PHARMACY
Virginia Aguado Lorenzo
Mirian Aguado Sáez de Guinoa
Irene Aquerreta González
Lydia Del Río García
Anna Doliwa De la Iglesia
Mirian Fernández Alonso
Olga Gimeno Hernández
Mariona Josa Albiñana
Edurne Larrucea Uriarte
Mirian Latorre Izquierdo
Juan Lecanda Cordero
Juan March Noguera
Iva Marques López
Marta Merodio De La Quintana
Lara María Orus Sarasola
Ana Teresa Otano San Martín
María Puy Pérez Montero
Óscar Urrutia Sagardia

IESE
Steven Poelmans
Carsteen Syvertsen
Beulah Anchita D' Souza

School OF MEDICINE
José Javier Aristu Mendióroz
José Arribas Pérez
Ignacio Azinovic Gamo
Jorge Baixauli Fons
Alberto Benito Boillos
María Soledad Boleas Aguirre
María Nieves Bravo Delgado
Jesús Manuel Cires Bezanilla
Luca Denaro
José María Duque Alcorta
María Cristina Esteve Cornejo
Ginesa María García-Rostán Pérez
Beatriz Holgado Pérez
Alfonso María de Ligorio Iglesias Pereira
Alicia María Maceira González
Sonia Martín Almendros
María del Carmen Muñoz Turrillas
Yury Okruzhnov
María Amaya Puertas Ruiz
María Belén Sádaba Díaz de Rada
María del Carmen Sainz Gómez
José Esteban Salgado Pascual
Ignacio Sánchez-Carpintero Abad
Marta Simón Vázquez
Gustavo Eduardo Vásquez López

School OF THEOLOGY
Juan Alonso García
Magí Ballart Alarcos
Aldo Capucci
Eduardo Da Silva Santos
Miguel Vasco Costa De Salis Amaral
Manoel Augusto Santos Dos Santos
Manuel Pablo Olivares Molina
Jorge Luis Putnam Velando
Antonio Rodriguez LIzano
N' Datchin Honore Traore
Luis Fernando Valdes Lopez
Nuno Miguel Carvalho Vieira