lunes, 25 de enero de 2010

Cronology of IPICYT's conflict against Professors Terrones

[ version en Español ]

Alineación al centro
December 2005:

June 2006

June 2008

July 2008

December 2009

  • In December 3, a Comision (formed, among others, by Dr. Miguel A Vidal) ordered to evacuate the "Thermal Treatment" and "Mesoporous Materials" labs (in 5 days) (used by the Terrones group).
  • Letter of José Luis Rodríguez, Román Sandoval y Haret Rosu to several members of the scientific community of Mexico (personal communication, December 18, 2009)
  • All personal, publications, research projects and other information of the Terrones group was removed from IPICYT's webpage (December 18) withour previous notice.
  • In December 21, Dr. Humberto Terrones was prohibited to access IPICYT's facilities as "he was not longer a worker there". Patricia Hidalgo supervised those actions.

January 2010

  • Dr. Mauricio Terrones tried to enter to IPICYT in January 6, but was prohibited as "he was not longer a worker there".
  • That same day, a general email was sent to IPICYT announcing the firing of professors Terrones, without any further information on the reasons. Their offices were sealed, and their names removed from ther former labs.
  • A public protest letter was sent by several IPICYT's graduate students denouncing the irregular firing of Drs. Terrones and their worries about their academic and research future there.
  • In January 7, the students were received by the IPICYT administration (Rios, Bonilla and Vidal), but no information on the reasons for the firing where commented; they were unpleased with the public protest letter of the students, and were asked to stop their dissemination. In that meeting, it was cited as a cause of the firing the innecesary evacuation of furnishing from the research labs, which were previously ordered to evacuate (sic).
  • In January 8, the students recieved an statement from the direction about than the "Thermal Treatment" lab will be relocated again in their former site; because the Comission that ordered the evacuation and relocation didn't know about the need of special electrical installations, which already exists at the former place.
  • In January 20, the graduate students send a second letter on the irregularities that caused the firing of the Terrones and the stress put on the colleagues of the Nanosciences group.

jueves, 21 de enero de 2010

Nueva carta de denuncia de estudiantes del IPICYT sobre las acciones cometidas por las autoridades del IPICYT

Una nueva carta y un nuevo blog se han hecho públicos por parte de los estudiantes de posgrado en el IPICYT, sobre las acciones irregulares e injustificadas cometidas por la administración del instituto, alrededor del despido arbitrario de los doctores Mauricio y Humberto Terrones y las presiones ejercidas sobre los colaboradores del grupo de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología (NyN) que aun laboran ahí.
La carta está disponible en:

jueves, 7 de enero de 2010

Carta abierta de estudiantes del IPICYT a la comunidad nacional e internacional

Con la autorización de los autores, reproduzco las versiones en español e inglés de una carta escrita por estudiantes del IPICYT y enviada a la comunidad científica internacional y nacional sobre el conflicto laboral que afecta al grupo de los Doctores Mauricio y Humberto Terrones Maldonado en el IPICYT (with permission of the authors, here you cand find the spanish and english version of an Open Letter sent to the International and National Scientific community on the conflictive issues going on against Terrones's group at IPICYT):

- Aquí está disponible la Carta en Español.

- Here you can find the Letter in English.

NUEVA CARTA DE DENUNCIA DE LOS ESTUDIANTES (new)



(Updated, January 21, 2010)

lunes, 4 de enero de 2010

Bienvenido 2010

Estimados e-nanos:

Este promete ser un año lleno de retos. Por muchas razones. Esperemos que podamos compartir muchas noticias de nanociencias y nanotecnología, como es la tradición de cada año.

Mientras tanto, un abrazo solidario a Mauricio Terrones y Humberto Terrones. Que desde donde se encuentren, continuen su excelente labor científica, que sigan impactando de manera tan importante el desarrollo de la nanotecnología nacional y la educación científica, pero mas importante, que sigan denunciando los problemas nacionales que existen en política científica.

Para todos, un excelente 2010.-