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This afternoon has taken place the act of nomination of a street in the University Campus of the Muralla del Mar, dedicated to the scientist, researcher and Daughter of Cartagena, María Cascales Angosto.
In the simple act, which has been words of the mayor and the honoree, has been discovered a plaque with the name of the street, on the north facade of the Antigones Barracks.
In her speech the mayor highlighted the role played by women in the history of Cartagena and the need to reflect their work more and more in the street, where most of the references are "virgins or saints."
For Castejón, Cascales was a case worth mentioning because in a group of men she knew how to build a future as a researcher, being the first woman to enter the Royal Academy of Pharmacy.
For his part, the honoree, has thanked Cartagena for this new recognition that comes to join the title of Favorite Daughter.
Since then, she explained, there have been numerous times when she has returned to the city to collaborate on all the questions she has requested and she was very happy that this recognition came to her in life, since it is customary to grant them once she is dead.
He also had words of thanks to the current mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, and his predecessors, José López and Pilar Barreiro.
Among the attendees were diverse members of the Municipal Corporation, such as the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, the spokespersons of the PP, Francisco Espejo;
MC Cartagena, José López, and of Ciudadandos, Manuel Padín;
along with representatives of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, friends and family.
The street that bears the name of María Cascales Angosto is located next to the north facade of the Antigones building, today the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), which had no name until now.
The condition of Maria Cascales' Favorite Daughter, allowed the Local Government Board to adopt this nomination directly, in order to promote more names of women in the street of the City;
as they have also been the case of the Adoptive Daughter, Rosario Juaneda, to which also in September the name of a street will be placed in this same area.
María Cascales Angosto, born in Cartagena in 1934, was the first Spanish woman to gain access to a scientific academy: specifically, in 1987, to the Pharmacy Academy.
PhD in Pharmacy and scientific researcher from the a CSIC has published numerous research papers and books, and directed doctoral theses.
Throughout his prestigious professional life he has made numerous stays abroad and has to his credit the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise and the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UNED, among others.
The City Council of Cartagena gave him in April 2010 the title of Favorite Daughter of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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