The keynote talk allowed us to learn about a historical approach to the academy, in addition to the opportunities and challenges that the institution faces today.

The Law degree of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the University of La Serena inaugurated its academic year for the third consecutive year, an event that was attended by the Director of the Judicial Academy of Chile, Mg. Juan Vargas Viancos, who gave the keynote talk “The challenges of training judges in Chile”.

The solemn activity took place in the Pentagon Room of the campus and was attended by the Academic Vice Chancellor, Dr. Jorge Catalán Ahumada, the Academic Secretary of the FACSE, Mg. Carolina Rodríguez Malebrán, the Director of the Law degree, Mg. Carlos Magna Rodríguez, the Race Coordinator, Mg. Christian Merino Álvarez, among other University authorities, students and special guests.

The Mg. Carlos Magna valued the importance of solemnly marking the beginning of a new year. “The inauguration of the academic year aims to highlight certain topics, we have the opportunity and the grace of having great people, and this occasion has not been the exception,” he stated.

The keynote talk allowed us to learn about a historical approach to the academy, and also the opportunities and challenges that the institution faces today. The academy is an institution concerned with the training needs of both the applicants to the Primary Rank of the Judiciary, as well as its members, and with the achievement and increase of those knowledge, abilities, skills and basic criteria necessary for the proper exercise. of the judicial function.

The Director of the Judicial Academy thanked the invitation and recognized the position that the Law program has at the country level, “The effort that the Law program at the University of La Serena has made with its students to instill in them an interest is very valuable. for public affairs, and there is no public function more attractive and important for our country than the judicial function,” he pointed out.

Written by Paula Godoy, ULS journalist

The study plan includes topics of integrated management of basins and water resources, geographic information systems, hydrological modeling, among others.

For several years now, the Coquimbo Region has been constantly experiencing water resource problems. There have been many studies that have revealed this, and without going any further, the Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones -CEAZA- has been emphatic in establishing that the situation is critical, especially in certain recognized sectors in the region.

For this reason, the University of La Serena, together with regional entities, defined in their strategies that the development of human capital for the good management of water resources was a central pillar for their development.

The need for good water management has been established in the Regional Development Strategy, in the Strategic Plan to confront Water Scarcity 2015-2025 and also in the National Policy for Water Resources 2015; All these instruments seek, ultimately, to create a high-level critical mass in the management of water resources.

With all these considerations, the ULS, as a public and regional university, decided to assume the commitment through the PROMMRA Laboratory of the Department of Agronomy, to raise a postgraduate training proposal that was awarded, becoming what is today called Diploma in Management. of Water Resources.

This diploma course hopes to improve the capabilities of students in various areas associated with water resources management, particularly in arid and semi-arid areas. The study plan includes topics on integrated management of basins and water resources, geographic information systems, hydrological modeling, applied hydrology and hydraulics.

A central and very important axis of this diploma is that it addresses the innovation of transformation processes for good management. Likewise, it contemplates project evaluation, and legislation and quality issues.

The program is structured on the basis of VI modules that account for a total of 11 courses and among them is what is called water operations, where we work on high-efficiency irrigation systems, water treatment techniques and planning. water, and that the professionals who today take the role of students have had the opportunity to learn in the field.

For Christopher Vivanco, Project Engineer at the Water Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAZALAC), agricultural engineer at the University of La Serena and current student of the diploma taught by the ULS, being part of this program study allows you to perfect yourself in areas of knowledge that directly affect your work performance. “Until now, the diploma has been a new opportunity to improve myself professionally; But it has also been a new opportunity to ask myself new questions, new challenges and new horizons in this very special line of water resources,” he indicated.

For her part, for Carolina Herrera, civil engineer and Provincial Head of DGA Limarí of the General Directorate of Water of the Coquimbo Region, the reason why she decided to take this diploma was to expand her knowledge about water management, expressing that “this way I can improve my own management and allows me to better support users and the various user organizations with which I have contact as Provincial Head of the DGA of Limarí.”

Furthermore, he added that in the regional context, the possibility of accessing a diploma such as the one offered by the University of La Serena is very important, pointing out that “this is a different and specialized diploma in an area where disastrous droughts have been experienced, such as "It is the Coquimbo Region, and where the experience of several professionals from the various productive areas of the region and water users is used, which is quite beneficial for those of us who develop in this area."

The Diploma in Water Resources Management program is taught in 11 courses lasting a total of 213 hours, distributed in 150 face-to-face hours and 63 hours of autonomous work, and is an opportunity for those who want to acquire solid knowledge, build capabilities and perfect themselves under a comfortable format from a work point of view.

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom

In the Techno Science sections of CNN Chile and Superscience of radio dna, journalist Andrea Obaid commented on the scope of Univrso, the first Chilean virtual reality app to educate the community about astronomy, developed by the University of La Serena. This application is part of the project: “Virtual Reality to reinvent Astrotourism”, executed by the ULS and financed by the Innovation Fund for Competitiveness (FIC-R) - Coquimbo Region.

In ADN, the journalist spoke with the head of the ULS Digital Campus, Humberto Farías, who provided details of Univrso, a new way of approaching astrotourism. The initiative also considers the website Universo.userena.digital and four free massive open online courses (MOOC).

See the note at CNN Chile here 

Listen to the interview on DNA here (from minute 36:50)

The University of La Serena participated in the launch of the Santiago - Temuco section of the High Speed ​​Fiber Optic Network, which has 850 kilometers and an initial capacity of 100 gigabits per second, promoted by the National University Network (REUNA) and which included with the presence of government authorities, the private sector and representatives of various universities, connected simultaneously from 4 cities in the center and south of the country.

The Director of the ULS Informatics and Computing Center was present at the inauguration of this second section; Mg. Andrés Moya, who highlighted that our institution has a year of experience, after the first section of this Fiber Optic Network was inaugurated in April 2018, enabled between Santiago and La Serena, for the use of the entire scientific and academic community. From Chile.

The inauguration of this new section and the participation of the University of La Serena was highlighted in the magazine Pulse (The Third) on Sunday, April 28.

His visit was part of the inauguration of the new academic year of the University's Law program, where he also shared with authorities from the university. 

The Director of the Judicial Academy, Juan Vargas Vivancos, visited the University of La Serena on the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year of the Law degree, an occasion in which he also held a meeting with the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Jorge Catalán, in representation of the Rector, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, together with the Vice-Rector for Economic and Administrative Affairs, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón, the Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Cs. Social and Economic, Mg. Carolina Rodríguez, the Director of the undergraduate program, Mg. Carlos Magna, and the Race Coordinator, Mg. Christian Merino.

At the meeting, the authorities discussed the work that the University carries out today regarding the academic training of future professionals in the region, highlighting the work that has been developed in the Law career.

After this meeting, the inauguration of the academic year of the Law degree took place in the Pentagon Hall of the University of La Serena, a space where the Director of the Judicial Academy gave the talk: “Challenges of the training of judges in Chile”, which was attended by authorities, academics and students.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

The meeting with Dr. Walter Kohan took place in the context of the inauguration of the academic year of the degree, where university authorities, academics and students participated.

With the premise that in society there is a contradiction in what is said and done in the area of ​​early childhood education, the academic Walter Kohan, philosopher from the University of Buenos Aires and Doctor in Philosophy from the Universidad Iberoamericana de México , visited the University of La Serena to give a keynote talk to the students of Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education, in the context of the inauguration of the academic year of the degree.

In the activity, which was attended by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Dr. Cristián Noemi, academics, students and special guests, the expert was emphatic in confirming that today, although there is a child protection policy, it remains a lot for early childhood education to be a priority and that, from that perspective, what can be done is to start talking about the topic, in spaces like those that the University of La Serena fosters.

“Childhood education is one of the most important in the world, although people do not realize it or do not want to believe it, and unfortunately since childhood is neglected and neglected, educational systems think that the most formed stages are the most important, But we neglect the lowest ones and even that has a lower economic reward, because people who work in early childhood education receive less, are less economically stimulated, and all of this reflects carelessness and inattention," said the philosopher.

Meeting with academics and talk

The expert also met with academics from the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education career, where they were able to analyze the different scenarios through which early education goes, as well as learn about what the ULS does with students, where the work in equipment and knowledge of realities, not only in schools, but in facilities such as hospitals and penitentiaries.

Dr. Kohan ended his visit to the University with the exhibition called “Biopolitics, school and resistance: Childhood for teacher training.”

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom