Mariana de la Garza de los Santos, from the academic program of Bachelor of Business Creation and Innovation, was co-winner of the first place of the call organized by the magazine Travel Impact Newswire, in which they invite young people to reflect on how tourism impacts in the 17 Sustainable Development Objectives proposed by the UN.

Mónica Itzel Guerrero Hernández, Walter Daniel Mata Martínez, María Carolina Bonilla Villarreal, Pedro Sergio Guajardo Reyes, Ana Sofía Ramírez Valdez and Francisco Sergio García Luna Vázquez, students of the Bachelor of Business Creation and Innovation program, participate in the final of the National Competition ENACTUS 2018.

The participating students are also members of the student chapter ENACTUS of the UDEM, whose objective is to work in favor of the communities most in need through different sustainable projects and the positive power of business.

Gerardo Andrés Cabriales Orozco, Francisco Javier Vargas de León, Claudia Fernanda Dovalina García and Adriana Zavala Treviño, students of the academic program of Bachelor of Global Business, obtained an outstanding result in the Ceneval professional exam.

As part of our efforts to promote entrepreneurship, at the Universidad de Monterrey we have obtained the following achievements:

Mayela Fernández Cantú and Paulina González Peña, students of the Bachelor of International Marketing program, as well as Karla Lizeth González Reyes, student of Business Management and Administration, and Frida Aizaneth Sevilla Medina, student of Engineering Business Management, were finalists in the Premio Santander de Innovación Empresarial. As the next phase of the contest, they will compete at a national level.

Eugenio Gerardo Garza Garza, student of the academic program of Bachelor of Economics, won the first place in the category "Poetry" in the 9th Literary Contest "Palabras que cuentan", with his work Montañas anónimas: poemas incompletos.

The contest, organized by the Department of Cultural Diffusion of the UDEM, had as juries the writers Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz, Carlos del Castillo and Merari Lugo Ocaña.

The eighth semester students Walter Daniel Mata Martínez, Bachelor of Business Creation and Business Innovation, and Francisco Sergio García Luna, Bachelor of Economics, won the Komenko Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.

The students demonstrated that it is possible to manufacture from blocks, walls and tiles, to floors, tiles and kitchens with the waste mixture that they have called polycrete, which is the combination of polymers and concretes in English.

The teacher Maritza Núñez Ramos, from the UDEM Business School, was awarded in the 8th Ibero-American Congress of Work Psychology and Human Resources for her workshop "Evaluation of skills for executives: leadership and conflict management", which was the best evaluated

The specialist in organizational psychology and human resources indicated that, in her workshop, a methodology of psychometric tests was used to measure the different styles in which a leadership can be exercised, according to the degree of maturity of the group.

Ana Sofía López, director of the academic program of Bachelor of International Tourism, is part of the board of directors of the Tourism Cluster of Nuevo Leon.

In her academic training, Ana has a postgraduate degree in Global Tourism Management from the School of Commerce of Troyes, France, and is certified as a specialist in Incentive Tourism by SITE Global and in Organization of Events by the AMDEMAC and CAT consultants.