University authorities, directors, academics, officials and students participated in the presentation of both publications.

As part of the program to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the U. de La Serena, the launching ceremony of Volume 19 - No. 2 (2017) of the Ruta University Magazine and the monograph “Development of geographical thinking: contributions to the link between research and teaching.”

Present at the presentation of both publications were the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Jorge Catalán; the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Eduardo Notte; the Director of Postgraduate and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Jorge Rojas; the Dean of FACSE, Dr. Luperfina Rojas; the Faculty Secretary, Mg. Carolina Rodríguez; directors of Departments and Schools, academics, officials and students of said Faculty.

Ruta Magazine, whose latest issue is available at http://revistas.userena.cl/index.php/ruta, is an academic publication of the Department of Economic and Business Sciences of the FACSE, which brings together original scientific research articles related to business management from the perspective of strategic, economic and legal studies. Its objective is to stimulate the publications of research work in the three main areas of organizational management of companies, as well as to promote academic exchange between researchers and teachers of these subjects.

The director of the magazine, Mg. Mauricio Castillo stressed that this publication “has a long tradition, since it has been published since 1998, since 2011 it is already in digital format and since 2013 we have been working on a process that seeks its indexing in international catalogues. and thus contribute to the development of research not only of the Faculty, but of the entire University.”

The academic also indicated that this year the results of the journal's indexing in Latindex and CLASE are expected, and that 2019 will be a year of preparation to undergo indexing in the SciELO catalog and for the Conicyt contest.

For its part, the monograph “Development of geographical thinking” (Editorial ULS) attempts to link undergraduate research and teaching, considering the development of geographical thinking for the teaching-learning of geography as a fundamental thematic axis.

The researcher responsible for this monograph, Dr. Fabián Araya, stated that this publication, selected in the DIDULS Monograph Contest and in which academics from the state university and foreign institutions participate, is the fruit of a process which has been developed between 2011 and 2017 at the University, specifically in the context of the Didactics, Research and Educational Practices Program. Within the framework of this program - he added - various investigations have been generated, the results of which are synthesized in this monograph "designed for Pedagogy students at the University, future teachers of History and Geography."

Two of its co-researchers participated in the presentation of the monograph: the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Jorge Catalán, and the Director of the School of Pedagogy in History and Geography, Dr. Sandra Álvarez, who shared details of their articles with the attendees. .

On the occasion, copies of the magazine and the monograph were delivered to the authorities and directors present. In addition, a group of History and Geography Pedagogy students received certificates for their participation in the Applied Pedagogical Research Center (NUCIP).

The benefited students belong to the ninth level of the career.

In order to support the students who are ready to graduate, the students of the ninth level of the Pedagogy in Biology and Natural Sciences degree at the U. de La Serena participated in the workshop on “Conflict resolution at interior of the classroom”, dictated by the Graduate Monitoring Office and which allowed future professionals to receive guidelines on how to face conflicting issues within the classroom in a school context.

During the meeting, which was attended by around 10 students of the level about to graduate, the students acquired knowledge regarding practical tools in order to identify, detect and address possible conflicts within the classrooms, as well as in educational organizations. .

They also addressed what it means to understand the consequences and impact of the climate within the classroom on pedagogical results, and the identification of critical competencies that teachers must possess to address conflictive issues within the classroom.

In relation to what was stated above, the workshop presented a work methodology focused on the discussion, analysis and addressing of events that students with a graduation profile experienced within their practices, combining them with theoretical and practical elements of the profession. In this sense, topics such as focusing the teacher's attention in the classroom, understanding the characteristics, benefits and difficulties that positive climates present as obstacles, both for students and for the teachers themselves, were discussed. Likewise, definitions were provided regarding conflicts, their types, roles and strategies to effectively address these events.

It should be noted that the ULS Graduate Monitoring Office, together with the Degree Coordination, interact to offer institutional opportunities aimed at improving the capabilities of students who will soon graduate from the undergraduate program, particularly in a complex topic such as conflict management in the classroom.

Source: DEIP Press

The Confederation of Higher Education Environmental Sciences Students (CECADES) of the ULS and UCN participates in the organization.

With a night trekking, which will culminate with an astronomical observation and the delivery of native trees to attendees, Earth Day will be celebrated this Sunday, April 29 in La Serena, an activity that begins at 17:00 p.m. and will end at 22:00 p.m. in the Cerro Grande of this city.

Those interested in participating must be at the foot of Cerro Grande on Sunday at 17:00 p.m., with appropriate hiking clothing, water, and a flashlight to illuminate the descent path.

This is the second version of the walk and last year more than 700 participants attended, so the organizers expect this year to exceed a thousand people.

The day is organized by the regional ministerial secretariats of the Environment and Energy, the Cerro Tololo Astronomical Observatory, the Department of the Environment of the Municipality of La Serena, the Confederation of Students of Environmental Sciences of Higher Education (CECADES) of the ULS and UCN, the National Institute of Sports, the National Forestry Corporation, NGO Red Aves and the Regional Board of Education for Sustainability.

The inauguration of the remodeling of this university space was part of the commemoration of the eighteenth anniversary of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences.

The students of the Journalism program at the University of La Serena now have a renovated Room 112, a remodeling carried out within the framework of the institutional policy of continuous improvement of the spaces that host teaching-learning activities.

The inauguration of the remodeling of this room was part of the commemoration of the eighteenth anniversary of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, and was attended by university authorities, headed by the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés; the Dean of FACSE, Dr. Luperfina Rojas; managers, academics, officials and students of the career. On the occasion, attendees were able to appreciate the work to improve the space, which included changing the floor, ceiling, curtains and lighting, painting and new furniture and technological equipment.   

Rector Avilés highlighted that these types of actions seek to “deliver, every day, better conditions to our young students, who are the reason for the institution's existence.” He also emphasized that the progress achieved by the university, in the most diverse areas, has had the commitment of the university community, “where the work of the students has been very important. "They have expressed their needs and requirements, and we have been able to respond to them."

The authority also assured that another clear example of the policy of developing new buildings and systematically improving the facilities for students is the construction of the Study Workshops - Reading Room of the Andrés Bello Campus, a work that is added to other improvements to be made in this facility and that will directly benefit the students.  

The Director of Teaching, Mg. Laura Vega, meanwhile, highlighted that this remodeling is part of “a great project, which is our Educational Model. She declares that the institution must be concerned with ensuring the quality of the training processes, which is our fundamental task.

In this sense, the Director of the School of Journalism, Mg. Cristian Muñoz, along with thanking the institution for its support in all the quality assurance processes of this degree, stated that having an adequate space “dignifies the teaching-learning process and, above all, delivers a message to teachers and students. students, that the University has a policy that has been consistent and coherent with the guidelines that have been drawn up in the Educational Model to ensure quality.”

For the president of the Journalism Student Center, Felipe Muñoz, the remodeling of the room and the implementation of this type of initiatives “is very important for us students because it allows us to improve the study spaces, places where we spend a large part of the day and week. "We need spacious and pleasant places, with good lighting to facilitate and enhance our studies."

The improvement of Room 112 of the Andrés Bello Campus was carried out thanks to the management of the Teaching Directorate, the School of Journalism and various units of the institution, and the financing of the Ministry of Education through the Framework Agreement ULS-1655 " Installation of the Multi-Annual Plan 2016-2020" (implementation of year 1 of the Plan).

The activity was carried out jointly with actors and employers from the public and private sectors, with the aim of knowing the main characteristics, challenges and demands required for students with a graduation profile and graduates from the ULS.

“Demands and challenges in the Labor Market” was the name of the workshop held on the third floor of the Technology Center of the Faculty of Engineering, which brought together employers from different fields and teachers, directors and career coordinators from the macro-unit of the University of La Serene.

The objective of the meeting, organized by the ULS Graduate Monitoring Office, was to establish links and collect relevant information between the companies and institutions belonging to the Liaison Network for Employability and the representatives of the invited Faculty. The professional training of graduates, the transversal skills of professionals, technological and communication skills, and the relationship with the institution that trains professionals, were some of the topics discussed in the activity.

The meeting, which brought together professionals from the area, managed to establish broad criteria regarding what the professionals who graduate from the University are like and what are the recurring problems they face in the development of their profession.

In turn, the person in charge of the OSE, Mg. Luis Carrasco Castro, had the opportunity to present the new platform that is related to the System for the Management of Information and Indicators of Graduates, SIGIT, an integrated and scalable tool that allows linking the University with the graduate and the world of work, through from various employers, key agents in the environment, as well as integrating students with a graduation profile, allowing them to foster early ties with future employers.

“For us as an institution, these types of activities are fundamental, since they represent our third mission of linking with the environment and where teaching and research can be nourished with highly relevant information from the work environment, and they serve as a basis for the processes of continuous improvement that is carried out by the campus,” said Carrasco.

During the meeting, practical actions were carried out that allowed an open dialogue between the different actors in order to understand the characteristics, abilities and skills that the professionals of the Faculty of Engineering of the University should possess to insert themselves and perform effectively in a highly fluctuating current context. and plaintiff.

For the representative of the Regional Ministerial Secretariat of Mining, engineer Francisco Velásquez, “this type of meeting is very good, since it allows feedback and an analysis of how graduates who work in both the public and private spheres perform. enhance your skills and help eliminate your weaknesses; These work tables are a favorable meeting to express what we want as employers and the way in which we want to work together.”  

The dynamics of the workshop were led by the organizational psychologist, Mg. Rodrigo Davanzo, who through a playful dynamic demonstrated what teamwork means and its importance when entering the job market. In the message delivered to those present, it was emphasized that this type of instance is carried out with the purpose of being able to provide information to the various careers in order to provide relevant information in the education of students, so that in this way they can effectively enter the world of work.

This meeting, which is part of the committed activities of 2018, seeks to strengthen communication and learn about current trends and employability projections.

Source: DEIP Press

Given the situation of permanent water deficit in the Coquimbo Region, this initiative arises as a way to adapt to the consequences of climate change and better manage the existing water.

The permanent water deficit faced by the Coquimbo Region has acquired greater relevance in the territory as a result of the increase in the periodicity and prolongation of phenomena such as drought, which affects human and forestry and agricultural systems.

In the case of agriculture, efficiency in the use and management of water is key to consolidating the sustainability of existing resources, adapting to the challenges presented by climate change.

Thanks to the joint work between the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation, FIA, an institution dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Elqui River Surveillance Board, and the University of La Serena, through the Resources Prospecting, Monitoring and Modeling Laboratory Agricultural and Environmental, PROMMRA, attentive to this reality, began its work on the creation of a hydrological modeling interface to improve the management of the existing water resource in the Elqui River basin.

The project was launched at the seminar “Hydrological modeling, a management tool for the Elqui River basin in the context of climate change.” On the occasion, it was explained that through the WEAP (Water Evaluation And Planning) software, the water information of the basin can be modeled to generate new hydroclimatic scenarios.

"Water scarcity and drought have taught us great lessons, among which we must learn how to have more information for decision-making, take advantage of science and technology, and work collaboratively with different institutions to address common objectives, to improve the effectiveness of a resource that is scarce, but very necessary for the development of agriculture, and this is why President Sebastián Piñera's program is focused on supporting with resources the sectors that have had a very bad time due to this water situation,” explained the Seremi of Agriculture, Rodrigo Órdenes.

 “Management processes are required that consolidate the sustainability of the territory's water resources, ensuring the availability and access to resources, to guarantee the best productive use of our region of Coquimbo,” said the FIA ​​representative of the regions of Coquimbo and Atacama, Francisca Martínez.

An interface platform will be designed between the user and the water management model. “The central objective is to generate a tool so that organizations, in this case the Elqui River Surveillance Board, can, using the data that they themselves generate, define the allocation of water in each season, in such a way as to have a tool that allows us to anticipate with good decisions the water supply, and therefore, that there is a good planning of the agricultural or productive development of the region, this is where the most significant contribution is focused,” indicated Dr. Pablo Álvarez Latorre, project coordinator. and academic at the University of La Serena.

Another point that this project will contemplate is related to installing these capacities in the communities and, in this case, in the Surveillance Board associated with this project. For Dagoberto Bettancourt, water distribution manager of the Elqui River Surveillance Board, he pointed out that “this tool will allow us to carry out, structure and document what have been the post-learning administration practices of the drought in the area, for example. Therefore, for the organization it is the opportunity to provide continuity. Furthermore, this will remain as a heritage of the organization, being a structural practice and promoting the transfer of research knowledge to the operational processes of the board.”

“Faced with this water scenario, the challenge is for our economic, environmental and social systems to adapt to the context of climate change in a sustainable way, and for us to be more efficient in the management of the resources we have,” concluded Francisca Martínez.