The fair is a means for young people to stimulate their own learning capacity and to link the course contents with their field of specialty.

In the vicinity of the tunnel that connects the Isabel Bongard and Ignacio Domeyko campuses, the Materials Innovation Fair was held, organized by the students of the "Material and Structure" course of the Design major and their professor Marco Gutiérrez Cocq.

The academic explained that the fair is an entertaining means for young people to stimulate their own learning capacity and link the contents of the course (properties of materials and operation and analysis of structures) with their field of specialty.

The activity allowed second-year students to exhibit their work and dialogue with the university community.

The activity, which is expected to be attended by a significant number of researchers, aims to foster a space for debate, multidisciplinary updating and encouragement of scientific and technological research.

On November 6, 7, 8 and 9 of this year, within the framework of the Agua Negra Pass Integration Committee - Higher Education Institutions Commission, the II Chile - Argentina Binational Scientific Research Congress will take place.

This congress aims to promote a space for debate, multidisciplinary updating and stimulation of scientific and technological research in a wide spectrum of areas of knowledge, promoting exchange and integration between Argentine and Chilean researchers, thus generating opportunities for academic development. related to regional, national and international interests.

This is how to date almost a hundred investigations have been received to seek to be selected to be presented in the context of this meeting.

“We are working to promote scientific exchange, which enables the enrichment of research experiences generated by young researchers from different scientific-academic institutions in Chile and Argentina, in addition to being an inspiration to increase vocational interest in the study and development of the sciences, as a source of knowledge and development”, explained the president of the Commission for the Integration of Higher Education Institutions, Adriana Ledezma.

Activity Details

The meeting is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of various university and higher education careers, who are developing or have recently completed research activities in their respective houses of study in both Chile and Argentina; and researchers and research teachers from universities and Higher Education institutions in both countries.

A call for close to 200 attendees is expected, from both countries, who will participate in master classes, presentations and posters, the thematic axes being: Binational Economic Development; Education and culture; Turistic development; Social development; State, Society, Power and Politics; Medicine and health; Present and Future Energy; and Geoscience, Environment and Environmental Sustainability.

In this II Binational Congress of Scientific Research, the regional organization will be in charge of the Higher Education Commission, belonging to the Paso Agua Negra Integration Committee - made up of the University of La Serena, Universidad Católica del Norte, Universidad Central, Universidad Santo Tomás, Technological University of Chile INACAP, Pedro de Valdivia University, Aconcagua University, Bolivarian University, IPChile Professional Institute of Chile, AIEP Professional Institute and Central Valley Professional Institute-, through the Subcommittees: Research and Postgraduate, Links with the Environment, Academic and Communications. In addition, the National University of San Juan and the Catholic University of Cuyo are incorporated into the organization.

The activities of the meeting will take place in the Gabriel González Videla Conference Room of the Regional Administration, in the Gabriela Mistral Regional Library and in the offices of the U. de La Serena, the U. Central, the Santo Tomás University and Inacap.

This plan is an annual program that was prepared based on the survey carried out in January 2018.

In an extraordinary meeting, the Bipartite Training Committee and the Human Resources Department of the University of La Serena decided to reschedule the training scheduled for this last semester of the year, in such a way as to give all officials the opportunity to participate in said courses.

In this regard, Pablo Sánchez, president of the Bipartite Training Committee, highlighted that "the mobilizations generated a significant delay in carrying out the plan; however, the Human Resources area has made a significant effort to maintain all the committed offer, the which will be executed in this last semester.In this sense, as a Committee, we have met to support the diffusion and logistics that allow to facilitate the information for all the officials of our University”.

In addition, the professional took the opportunity to "invite officials to participate in said training, reminding them that they are free opportunities for staff, where our institution gives them the chance to improve their job skills."

People interested in learning about this training program can download the plan here or consult with the person in charge of Internal Training, María Graciela Zúñiga Leblanc, by phone 2 204526 or by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Municipality of Canela will provide its infrastructure so that students in the health area can make use of them, learn about primary care and acquire fundamental experiences for their professional training.

The students of the Nursing, Kinesiology, Odontology and Psychology careers of the University of La Serena will be able to carry out their basic practices and professional internships in the Community Health Network of Canela, thanks to a teaching assistance agreement signed by the state university and said municipality.

Thanks to this agreement signed by the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro, and the mayor of Canela, Juan Bernardo Leyton Lemus, the municipality, through the Department of Health, will provide its infrastructure (clinical fields) so that students can make use of them, get to know primary care on the spot and acquire fundamental experiences for their professional training. Likewise, municipal officials will be available to contribute to this training, which will be of relevant importance in the development of their future professions.

The university institution, for its part, will develop face-to-face training for municipal officials, according to the Annual Training Program (PAC) prepared by the Department of Health.

The signing of the agreement was valued by the Rector of the U. de La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, who pointed out that the agreement will strengthen the training of students, "promoting spaces for the development of professional practices in other communes and localities of the Coquimbo Region, where young people can perform differently, knowing the other reality of the Health system”.

The highest university authority also highlighted that the alliance established with the Municipality of Canela is one more example of the strengthening of the Link with the institutional environment, "assuming the social responsibility that falls to us as an educational institution committed to the development of the region and its community.

While the mayor of Canela thanked the will of the University of La Serena to sign this collaboration agreement "in which students, mainly from the health area, will be able to carry out their internships in our family health centers, in the posts of our commune. We all benefit from this: the people who will have more professionals working in our commune, and the students of the university institution”.

For the Dean(s) of the Faculty of Sciences, Dr. Héctor Fabián Reyes, this is a great opportunity that is opening up for macro-unit careers "because it allows participation in the training process of our students." And he added that from this agreement "we seal a working relationship and commitment that we hope to maintain for a long time, and also expand it to other areas that have to do with the development of the commune."

University authorities, directors and academics of the ULS participated in the signing ceremony of the agreement held in the offices of the Central House of the state campus, as well as councilors and officials of the Municipality of Canela.

The event was held at the Gregorio Cordovez High School and several establishments participated.

With a large call, the IV Hermann Niemeyer Fernández Regional Science Congress was held, an event that had the participation of different educational establishments from the Coquimbo Region and where they had the opportunity to present their research projects.

The activity took place in the conference room of the Liceo Gregorio Cordovez and also included presentations by special guests, such as the journalist and lawyer specializing in astronomy, Hernán Julio, who spoke about the Solar Eclipse 2019, and the academic from Department of Biology of the University of La Serena and Executive Director of the Laboratory for Research and Technological Innovation for Science Education, Francisco López, who presented the talk "Cellfie-ULS System for capturing, labeling, managing and publishing photographs taken through of an optical microscope using a mobile device”.

For the rector of the high school, Mario Rojas, it was a great opportunity to learn about the experiences of young people in the world of science, highlighting the high-level research carried out by the participating schools.

The establishments that were present were the American School, the Catholic English School, the María de Andacollo School, the Jorge Alessandri High School, the Samuel Román Rojas High School in Combarbalá, the Andrés Bello Pampa School, the Andrés Bello Centro School and the Miguel de Cervantes School in Coquimbo.

The educator, who recently accepted the retirement incentive law, delivered this material to the university library.

In an emotional ceremony, the PH.D. in Education from Stanford University and former tenured professor at the University of La Serena, Carlos Calvo, who recently benefited from the retirement incentive law, made an important donation of 380 books from his collection to the Irma Salas Central Library of the ULS.

This donation, which is part of a new stage in the life of Doctor Calvo, from his perspective, will allow students and teachers to nourish themselves with the knowledge of the texts that accompanied him for so many years in his life of teaching, research and impetus for reading in general. “The books are a bridge between my research study work and the university, and the logical thing is that they stay here, where they can be used,” he said.

Dr. Carlos Calvo's presentation was preceded by his biography, presented by professor Ken Matsuda, who took the opportunity to thank the professor for the years he gave to the institution, as well as the dynamic way in which he captivated his students.

Professor Calvo was born in Valparaíso and studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Valparaíso. He is internationally recognized and has published books and academic articles in various countries, where he is also invited to give workshops, talks and conferences, amply demonstrating -as his peers say- the intellectual level that the investigator.

The academic worked for 30 years at the ULS, belonging to the Education Department of the same, where he taught Educational Sociology classes. His interests led him to research, publish and teach Educational Anthropology, Comparative Education, Ethnoeducation, Indigenous Education, Informal Education, School Culture, Adult Education, Literacy, Chaos Theory and Complexity Theories, Cognitive Sciences, Relationship between Oriental Thought and Occidental, Good Teachers, among others.

On the occasion, the head of the ULS Library System, Héctor García, thanked Dr. Calvo for the generous gesture for delivering the more than 300 books, and highlighted his human quality, since this commitment to reading goes beyond of what the collection of books means, but that it delivers and allows the transfer of knowledge.

The books are now available at the Irma Salas Central Library and can be requested by students and teachers.