This Thursday, the President of the Republic inaugurated the Dr. Humberto Fernández Morán University for Sciences, located at the IVIC headquarters in the state of Miranda. “We give it to the brilliant youth who show their abilities to the world,” he said.
He recalled that the University was inaugurated on a historic date and that it bears the name of the distinguished Venezuelan scientist born in Maracaibo, while urging that it gather the best scientific professors “in our America. “They want to come and teach this generation of young Venezuelans interested in science and technology.”
Maduro announced that the sector vice president Gabriela Jiménez will be the rector of this study house and will work together with the board of directors made up of: Roberto Antonio Betancourt Arocha, as secretary; Diana Josefina Carrillo Parra, academic director; David Santiago Paul Gómez, research director; Irving Alberto Acevedo Baptista, student director; Naima Magdalena Fernández Rosas, as administrative director.
Education, culture, art, science and technology
The national leader said that based on all the steps that are being taken for education, culture, art, science and technology, they have to aim at the construction of a new civilization and modernity. “Because the modernity that Western culture expresses does not serve human happiness and life.”
Maduro acknowledged that it is gratifying to see how, at the end of the year, the goals are being met and in this case with the delivery of this new University for the entire scientific community.
For her part, the Minister for Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, said that the university campus was built by “presidential mandate on April 10 when the great Science Mission was announced and rescue the legacy of the most important scientist in Latin America and the Caribbean. in the 20th century.” The head of this portfolio reported that in this higher education institution “16 courses will be taught as training programs”, of which 13, she explained, are new in the country. He also revealed that there will be more than 160 curricular specialists in cooperation with Iran, China and Russia.
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Jiménez mentioned that the courses that will be taught include nanotechnology, cybersecurity, biotechnology, materials engineering, atomic engineering, data engineering, oceanology, biomedicine and philosophy, as well as artificial intelligence, electromedicine, automation and petrochemistry.
The head of state paused and highlighted that the study and management of artificial intelligence is one of the greatest study priorities in the country, at the same time as other nations use it to “destroy humanity with the management of moods and behaviors through social networks.”
“Artificial intelligence must be developed to build a human society, a civilization of peace,” he said.
However, bachelor’s degrees in nuclear, molecular physics, and computational chemistry are also offered; physics and mathematics.
Maduro pointed out that the so-called scientific seedbed program, “almost 400 thousand boys and girls, about 100 thousand of them are dedicated to robotics, programming free software, but with the expectation of creating equipment for electrocardiograms, tomographs and other medical equipment.” , which the country requires.
Scientific community
The authorities highlighted that in the country there is currently an articulated community of scientists that is around 54 thousand throughout the national territory “and is growing, committed to the country, its national development and Latin America,” said Maduro.
The presidential event was attended by the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez; sectoral vice president of Science, Technology and Health, Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez; sectoral vice president for Social and Territorial Socialism, Héctor Rodríguez; Minister for Health, Magaly Gutiérrez Viña. In addition to special guests such as Johnny Delgado, Dr. Fernández-Morán’s last laboratory partner.
As part of the inauguration of the University of Sciences, President Maduro announced the upcoming premiere of the film about the life of Dr. Humberto Fernández Morán. This renowned Venezuelan scientist participated in large-scale projects. “There are now declassified documents and reports where it is very clear that the head of the investigations was Humberto Fernández Morán. “In the International Atomic Energy Agency he is recognized as the Father of the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy,” said writer Gloria Carballo.
