UIS graduate is the new president of the Colombian Association of Faculties and Schools of Nursing

On March 20, 2025, during the 72nd version of the General Assembly of ACOFAEN, Colombian Association of Faculties and Schools of Nursing, which brings together all the deans and directors of Faculties, Schools and Nursing programs in the country affiliated to the association, the new president was elected for the period 2025-2028. This is Wilson […]
UIS students, won first place in the Global Game Jam

Five UIS students from different academic programs, and a graduate of the Audiovisual Arts program UNAB, participated in the Global Game Jam. It is the largest videogame creation event in the world. It is an international, annual, collaborative event in which participants try to create video games from scratch.The team called “Frutiger Team” represented Bucaramanga […]
Mental Health: How to have a healthy mind (part I)

Continuing the informative activities of the space “Health and Learning”, the Faculty of Health, with the support of Professor Luis Orlando Pedraza Martínez. Nurse, UIS. Master in Mental Health: Research in Psychiatry, Neurotoxicology and Psychopharmacology, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain), professor of the School of Nursing, invite the community to III informative sessions on the […]
Students of the School of Nursing participated in the International Congress

Camilo Andrés Parra Portilla, student of the School of Nursing, and member of the research seedbed GRINFER, participated in the VII International Congress of Nursing and Health: Challenges faced by health professionals and VI Meeting of Research Seedbeds – Santa Marta, organized by the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia from October 2 to 4. Camilo Andrés […]
Professor of the School of Nursing participated in the Pan-American Colloquium on Nursing Research 2024

Diana Carolina Tiga Loza, professor at the School of Nursing and member of the GRINFER research group, presented a poster at the XVIII Pan-American Colloquium on Nursing Research 2024, held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The poster presented was entitled “Development of an application to support adherence to tuberculosis treatment”. This work presented […]
Two Spanish universities award UIS professor with honors in doctoral degree

Carolina Vargas Porras, a tenured professor attached to the UIS School of Nursing, School of Health, officially received her doctoral degree in Nursing and Health a program accredited by the University of Barcelona and Rovira i Virgili University, last Friday. The Auditorio Graus of the Universitat Rovira I Virgili also awarded her doctoral thesis with […]
Cytology tests for free
Communications Department The initiative of nursing student Elisa María Marulanda Moreno, who is currently developing her clinical practice in Bienestar Estudiantil through the Programa Docente Asistencial (PDA), was the incentive that prompted the organization of a day of free cytology tests without appointment for the students of this house of studies. Promoting the use of […]