UIMP Medals

The UIMP Medal of Honour from the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo was designed in 1983 by the sculptor Julio López Hernández. It is a beautiful bronze tabletop sculpture, measuring 15x14 cm.
Every piece is an original multicast creation from the sculptor’s workshop. The medal contains a relief of a woman’s face with a poetry book in her hands, as well as her reflection in a mirror. The words of Mr Pedro Salinas, former Secretary General of the University, are engraved around her: ‘Las sombras que forjamos en este inmenso lecho de distancias’ (The shadows we cast in this immense bed of distances). The name of the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo is on the back, alongside an engraving of La Magdalena Palace and Santillana del Mar Collegiate Church.

Award Rules

The UIMP Medal of Honour is granted for institutional recognition of Spanish and international individuals, corporations or organisations that stand out in the field of scientific research, education and the development of the arts and humanities, as well as for having provided services to the nation’s culture. The Medal is awarded by the Governing Board of the university, upon proposal of the Vice-Chancellor.

UIMP Medal 2021

Margarita del Val

Margarita del Val holds a PhD in Chemical Science in the specialisation of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Autónoma University of Madrid. Her research is focused on studying the immune response to viral infections and, therefore, aspects that form the basis of how vaccines work.
Del Val has represented Spain at the European Medicines Agency for medicine marketing, and is a member of the National Royal Academy of Pharmacy, as well as the Expert Advisory Committee for Vaccines in the Region of Madrid.

UIMP Medal 2019

Ana Bella Foundation

The mission of the Ana Bella Foundation is to save human lives by contributing to building an equal society free from violence against women and, through positive testimonies, ensuring victims of gender-based violence become survivors, who are able to break the generational chain of violence and act as multiplying agents for social change towards equality. 

The main aim of the Ana Bella Foundation is to represent, defend and provide support to female victims and survivors of gender-based violence and their children, in order to achieve personal empowerment for a decent life and equality.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg

Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Santander, Cantabria, 1939) is a Spanish architect, painter and sculptor. He graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture at the Politécnica University of Madrid in 1965 and, in 1969, was awarded a PhD from the same institution. Between 1969 and 1971, he won an IBM grant that enabled him to develop his research area at the Madrid Centre for Computing. Here, he focused on transferring technological processes to social spheres and urban planning, further advancing his original PhD research topic.

Navarro has been a guest lecturer in Philadelphia, Yale, Princeton, at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University—at the Kenzō Tange Lecture—and in Barcelona. He studied engraving at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Art between 1959 and 1960. He is a full tenured professor in the Department of Architectural Projects at his alma mater, where he has introduced metaphorical perspectives on architecture in comparison to the material vision of Professor Javier Carvajal and the tectonic approach of Professor Vázquez de Castro.

UIMP Medal 2018

Aurora Egido

Aurora Egido Martínez (Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, 1946) is a Hispanic philologist and Full Professor at the university of Zaragoza.  Her research focuses on the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, especially in the field of Aragonese literature. She is one of the leading specialists in Baltasar Gracián and, more broadly, in Spanish baroque literature. She has obtained, among other awards, the 2005 Medal of the Aragon Parliament, the 2009 Ramón Menéndez Pidal National Research Award and the 2017 Gold Medal of Castilla-La Mancha.

Egido has been visiting professor at the Universities of Barcelona, Autónoma de Barcelona and León, Cardiff, Westfield College in London, University of California-Los Angeles, and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. She was also appointed Distinguished Professor at New York University and professor at Cambridge University. She has served as Vice Rector of Humanities at the  Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo.

UIMP Medal 2017

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Menéndez Pelayo International University has awarded the University's 2017 Medal of Honour to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Chidambaram, India, 1952) an American scientist of Indian origin, president of the Royal Society, and Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for his studies on the structure and function of the ribosome at the atomic level. The UIMP thus recognizes his outstanding research accomplishments, "a path that can be summarized as a successful movement from Physics to Biology" in the words of the then rector of the university, César Nombela, during the award ceremony. UIMP thus recognizes the scientist's career, as well as his contributions at the Molecular Biology laboratory that he leads at the University of Cambridge.

Ramakrishnan began his research in the field of ribosomes in 1978 through a postdoctoral research fellowship at Yale University (USA), following his PhD in Physics from the University of Ohio in 1976. From 1983 to 1995 he continued his research as a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and then moved to the University of Utah as Professor of Biochemistry. He finally attained his current position at the University of Cambridge in 1999.

SINCE 1980 UIMP HAS PAID HOMAGE TO PERSONALITIES AND INSTITUTIONS WITH ITS MEDAL OF HONOUR. RECIPIENTS INCLUDE:

• AGUILERA, Ignacio
• ALONSO, Dámaso
• ÁNGELES LÓPEZ, Victoria de los
• ARIAS Y DÍAZ DE RÁBAGO, Carmela
• AROZARENA DOBLADO, Rafael
• AYALA, Francisco
• AYUNTAMIENTO DE SANTANDER
• BARDEM, Juan Antonio
• BARRAL, Carlos
• BECERRIL, Soledad
• BELTRÁN DE HEREDIA, Pablo
• BENEDETTI, Mario
• BETANCUR, Belisario
• BLECUA TEIJEIRO, José Manuel
• BOBES NAVES, Carmen
• BORBÓN, Juan Carlos de
• BORBÓN Y BATTEMBERG, Juan de
• BORRELL FONTELLES, José
• BOSCH, Juan
• BOTELLA LLUSÍA, José
• CALVO SERRALLER, Francisco
• CALVO SOTELO, Leopoldo
• CAMPS CERVERA, Victoria
• CARANDE, Ramón
• CARO BAROJA, Julio
• CARR, Raymond
• CARRILLO SALCEDO, Juan Antonio
• CASTILLA DEL PINO, Carlos
• CELA, Camilo José
• CELIBIDACHE, Sergiu
• CHUECA GOITIA, Fernando
• CIORANESCU, Alejandro
• COBO DEL ROSAL, Manuel
• CORAL SALVÉ DE LAREDO
• CORTÁZAR, Julio
• CRESPO DE LAS CASAS, Ana
• DIEZ ALEGRÍA, Manuel
• DÍEZ DEL CORRAL, Luis
• DOMINGO, Plácido
• DOMÍNGUEZ ORTIZ, Antonio
• ELLIOT, John H.
• ESPERT, Nuria
• ESPRIU, Salvador
• EULER, E. Von
• FERNÁN GÓMEZ, Fernando
• FERNÁNDEZ ALBA, Antonio
• FERREIRO, Celso Emilio
• FERRER RODRÍGUEZ, Eulalio
• FONTAINE, Nicole
• FOSTER, Norman
• FRENK, Margit
• FROMM, Eric
• FUENTES MACÍAS, Carlos
• FUENTES QUINTANA, Enrique
• FUSTER, Valentín
• GALLEGO MORELL, Antonio
• GARCÍA-BERLANGA, Luis
• GARCÍA DE LA CONCHA, Víctor
• GARCÍA DE ENTERRÍA, Eduardo
• GARCÍA DELGADO, José Luis
• GARCÍA GÓMEZ, Emilio
• GASSMAN, Vittorio
• GIMÉNEZ MARTÍN, Carmen
• GINER DE LOS RÍOS, Francisco
• GÓMEZ ORBANEJA, Emilio
• GONZÁLEZ MÁRQUEZ, Felipe
• GONZÁLEZ SEARA, Luis
• GONZÁLEZ VICEN, Felipe
• GRANDE COVIÁN, Francisco
• GUERRA, Alfonso
• GUILLÉN, Jorge
• GULLÓN, Ricardo
• GUTIERREZ MELLADO, Manuel
• GUZMÁN OZÁMIZ, Miguel de
• HAYASHIYA, Erike
• HERRERO GARRALDA, Ignacio
• HERZOG, Jacques
• HUERTA CASTILLO, Manuel
• IONESCO, Eugene
• JORDÁ, Juan José
• JOVER ZAMORA, José María
• KRAUS, Alfredo
• KWASNIEWSKI, Alexander
• LAGO CARBALLO, Antonio
• LAÍN ENTRALGO, Pedro
• LÁZARO CARRETER, Fernando
• LEÓN-PORTILLA, Miguel
• LLEDÓ IÑIGO, Emilio
• LLUCH, Ernest
• LÓPEZ ARANGUREN, José Luis
• LÓPEZ GARCÍA, Antonio
• LÓPEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Julio
• LÓPEZ MENÉNDEZ, Joaquín
• LÓPEZ VÉLEZ, Segundo
• LORENZO CRIADO, Emilio
• MADARIAGA DE LA CAMPA, Benito
• MALEFAKIS, Edward
• MARÍAS AGUILERA, Julián
• MARICHAL, Juan
• MARIÑAS, Luis
• MARTÍN MATEO, Ramón
• MARTÍNEZ, José Luis
• MATUTE, Ana María
• MAYOR ZARAGOZA, Federico
• MENÉNDEZ MENÉNDEZ, Aurelio
• MENÉNDEZ PIDAL, Jimena
• MERCOURI, Melina
• MERINO, Victor
• MEURON, Pierre de
• MOLINA, Mario
• MONLEÓN BENNÁCER, José
• MOTA CHAMÓN, Ángel Luis
• MORIN, Edgar
• MOVILLA ÁLVAREZ, Claudio
• MUÑOZ ROJAS, José Antonio
• NADAL OLLER, Jordi
• O'SHEA, Paloma
• OCEJO GARCÍA, José Luis
• OLLERO, Carlos
• OREJA, Marcelino
• ORTEGA Y DÍAZ AMBRONA , José A.
• PAZ, Octavio
• PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ, Francisco
• PÉREZ MINIK, Domingo
• PÉREZ PRENDES, José Manuel
• PÉREZ VERA, Elisa
• PERPIÑÁ GRAU, Román
• PINILLOS DÍAZ, José Luis
• PINTO GROTE, Carlos
• PIÑEIRO, Ramón
• PIÑÓN, Nélida
• PLAZA, Saturnino de la
• PRADO Y COLÓN DE CARVAJAL, Manuel
• PRAT, José
• PRIBRAM, Karl
• PRIGOGINE, Ilya
• RADIO 3 - RNE
• RICO MANRIQUE, Francisco
• RIQUER MORERA, Martín de
• RODERO, José María
• RODRIGO, Joaquín
• RODRÍGUEZ DORESTE, Juan
• ROJO, Luis Ángel
• ROLDÁN LÓPEZ, Santiago
• RUBIO SACRISTÁN, José Antonio
• RUIZ-GIMÉNEZ, Joaquín
• SÁBATO, Ernesto
• SALAS FALGUERAS, Margarita
• SALINAS, Solita
• SALVADOR CAJA, Gregorio
• SAMPEDRO SÁEZ, José Luis
• SANGUINETTI COIROLO, Julio María
• SARAMAGO, José
• SAURA ATARÉS, Antonio
• SEARA, Modesto
• SECO SERRANO, Carlos
• SEMPRUN, Jorge
• SENABRE SEMPERE, Ricardo
• SERRANO, Pablo
• SOLANA, Joaquín
• SOLANA MADARIAGA, Javier
• SOPEÑA IBÁÑEZ, Federico
• SUÁREZ GONZÁLEZ, Adolfo
• SUÁREZ NÚÑEZ, José María
• TIERNO GALVÁN, Enrique
• TORRENTE BALLESTER, Gonzalo
• TUÑÓN DE LARA, Manuel
• TURECK, Rosalyn
• UNIVERSIDAD JOSÉ SIMEON CAÑAS
• URÍA GONZÁLEZ, Rodrigo
• VARELA MOSQUERA, Gregorio
• VARGAS LLOSA, Mario
• VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA, Juan Antonio
• VELARDE FUERTES, Juan
• WESTERDHAL ORANAS, Eduardo
• ZAPATERO, Virgilio
• ZOBEL DE AYALA, Fernando