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The UMU approves awarding the Medal of Honor to the tennis player Carlos Alcaraz and the cyclist Alejandro Valverde

MURCIA, 15 Dic.

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The UMU approves awarding the Medal of Honor to the tennis player Carlos Alcaraz and the cyclist Alejandro Valverde

MURCIA, 15 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The University of Murcia has approved this Wednesday to award the Institution's Medal of Honor to Carlos Alcaraz, current number one in world tennis and the youngest player in history to reach this position, and Alejandro Valverde, one of the best Spanish cyclists in all time, with 133 victories, and winner of classics and stage races.

The distinction has been proposed to the faculty of the University of Murcia by the Department of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and the Faculty of Sports Sciences of the UMU through Vicente Morales Baños, for standing out in the development of activities that enjoy recognition by society and entail the achievement of significant merits in sporting, human, and representation and image terms of the Region of Murcia.

"Both embody remarkable human values ​​in line with the qualities inherent to the university spirit, among which respect, the capacity for sacrifice, perseverance and the spirit of improvement stand out," according to sources from the educational institution in a statement.

In the Senate, it was also reported that the Gold Medal was awarded to Professor José Orihuela Calatayud, the sixteenth rector of the University of Murcia in its 107-year history, who held the position between 2014 and 2018. The Gold Medal of the UMU is a distinction that is granted to the rectors of the institution when they have concluded their mandate and a legislature of their mandate has elapsed.

In this Wednesday's session, the granting of the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to the German chemist Rainer Streubel and the Dutch Mieke Bal, Dutch cultural theorist and critic, video artist and rector of the Institute of Cultural Studies in Amsterdam was also approved. .

The proposal for both distinctions came from the departments of Organic Chemistry and Spanish Literature, Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, through professors Arturo Espinosa Fereo and José María Pozuelo respectively.

The awarding of the Gold Medal to the CajaMurcia Foundation has also been approved for its long and fruitful period of collaboration with the University of Murcia. Specifically, for his "efforts over several decades in favor of the University of Murcia and its academic and research development", first as Obra Social y Cultural de CajaMurcia, then through the Fundación CajaMurcia, later framed in the agreement signed by the Fundación with Bankia, and finally with Caixabank.

In all cases "it has promoted both the development of its own activities, as well as activities carried out in collaboration with other institutions and entities framed in the area of ​​Teaching and Research, Dissemination of Culture and Historical-Artistic and Natural Heritage and Social Assistance The proposal has come from the Department of Business Organization and Finance through the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Samuel Baixauli Soler.

Finally, it has been agreed, at the request of the Social Council, to grant the Patronage Medal to the Centrofama Ophthalmological Clinic, having been defended by Francisco José Cámara, manager of the UMU.

The Centrofama Ophthalmological Center has distinguished itself by making altruistic donations of goods to the University of Murcia to promote research and enable better training for students and University staff.

Since the beginning of the Diploma in Optics and Optometry and the creation of the Clínica Universitaria de Visión Integral (CUVI), there has been a close relationship between the Centrofama Ophthalmology Clinic (COC) and the University of Murcia, making it possible through the donation of their teams to carry out clinical practices for students of the Optics and Optometry degree, facilitating the students to put into practice the optometric management of patients and to learn to use the devices used in ophthalmological diagnosis, this being one of the primary functions of the and opticians-optometrists when they work in ophthalmology clinics, according to the same sources.