The UIS puts at the service of the new and modern Museum of Natural History
On the morning of Friday, April 4, the community of Santander received the new Museum of Natural History, a project of the Industrial University of Santander (UIS) led by the rector, Hernán Porras Díaz. It is a new and modern space suitable for applied science and large-scale research in one place located in the heart […]
UIS Rector supervised the progress of the works being carried out at the central campus
Rigorous supervision means that the works are done well and on time, thus ensuring that public resources are used efficiently. Under these premises, Rector Hernán Porras Díaz, accompanied by Iván Rojas Camargo, head of the Physical Plant Division, made a tour to review the progress in the construction of the new building where the UIS […]
Students of the Genetics and Biotechnology Seminar stand out in a scientific dissemination event.
Biology students Diana Carolina Grimaldos González, María Andrea Caviedes Joya and Danna Valentina Morantes Estévez presented their research projects at the Ibero-American Contest of Student Science and Technology Projects (Infomatrix Colombia 2024). This event aims to promote scientific culture for social benefit through science outreach projects in which students from 5 to 25 years of […]
Biology Master’s student represents UIS in scientific event in Guadalajara (Mexico)
Daniela Johanna Mojica Candela, Master’s student in Biology at the UIS, participated in the XIX Latin American Congress of Genetics with the research work on the ‘Revision of the scope of conservation genetics in birds of the family Trochilidae’. This research was carried out together with Leidy Johanna Rueda and Professor Fernando Rondón González. There, […]
UIS researcher discovers two new snake species in Santander… An amazing find!
It took more than 10 years of research that led a group of scientists to discover 5 new species of eyelashed vipers (Bothriechis schlegelii) in Colombia and Ecuador. Of these species, 2 are unique to Santander and were described thanks to the Herpetology Collection of the Natural History Museum of the School of Biology of […]
UIS graduate discovered a new species of spiny mouse in Ecuador: ‘Neacomys Marci’.
A new species of spiny mouse called ‘Neacomys Marci’ has been discovered in Ecuador, which makes it the fourteenth of its genus identified in the last five years. A UIS graduate participated in the interdisciplinary research that began about four years ago. He is biologist Javier Colmenares Pinzón, who, together with Nicolás Tinoco, from the […]
Researchers from the colombian association of Biological Sciences to participate in scientific event at UIS
Communications Department Women in the Colombian Association of Biological Sciences’ is the name of the activity with which this Friday, February 25th will continue the commemoration of the Month of Women and Girls in Science at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS). The aim is to generate an academic space for interaction between researchers and […]
The Biological Integration Seminar begins on thursday 24th
Communications Department In order to share and exchange knowledge on advances in biological and related sciences, this Thursday, February 24th, the Biological Integration Seminar will begin, a face-to-face meeting between undergraduate and graduate students in Biology. The Graduate Advisory Committee of the Master’s Program in Biology, with the approval of the School Council, has prepared […]