Enkelé to represent Colombia at New Orleans Jazz Festival

Enkelé is full of news in this 2024. The most recent is to be one of the 100 groups invited to the New Orleans Jazz Festival in the United States, one of the most important in the world, where the Santander group Enkelé will be on stage. It will be the only women’s group that […]
Be a citizen of the world. UIS Language Institute will open enrollment this week.

The Language Institute of the Universidad Industrial de Santander opens registrations, starting this week, for children, adolescents and adults who wish to learn a language. From the age of 7, children can enroll in the English course and adults can choose between Portuguese, French, German, English and Italian. The youngest students will be able to […]
Julián Rodríguez Ferreira and Efrén Darío Acevedo Cárdenas will represent the UIS in the X Colombian Antarctic Expedition.

Professors Julián Rodríguez Ferreira and Efrén Darío Acevedo Cárdenas will travel next Thursday, January 25 from Bucaramanga to Antarctica to join the team of scientists that will work for two months on the white continent as part of the Expedition that Colombia carries out every year in the south of the planet. In this expedition […]
An alliance for competitiveness and quality improvement in Santander

With the aim of generating a research and extension alliance that puts knowledge at the service of the welfare of entrepreneurs and citizens of Santander, a meeting was held between the innovation team of the Bucaramanga regional Bank of the Republic and members of the Creative Intelligence Laboratory, Semiosis Lab, attached to the School of […]
UIS representatives excelled in the International Mathematics Olympiad OLIMPRI

Students from schools in Bucaramanga and its metropolitan area who were finalists in the UIS Regional Mathematics Olympics are medalists in the OLIMPRI International Mathematics Olympiad. This group of children and adolescents participated in this academic contest in representation of the project in the Third National Mathematics Olympiad, organized jointly with eight other public universities, […]
Sandra Milena Velasco Herrera is the new Food Services Coordinator.

Sandra Milena Velasco Herrera, professor and nutritionist UIS, assumed as the new coordinator of Food Services of Student Welfare. “It is an honor to be the coordinator of the service, I am a UIS graduate and we want to continue providing a good service for all students and thus support them from the different areas […]
UIS graduates reunited at their ‘alma mater’ during the Alumni Reunion

As a space for reunion, coexistence, integration and recreation among UIS graduates, the Alumni Meeting was held as part of the commemoration of 75 years of institutional life. “It has been a wonderful meeting, very well organized and especially to see the progress of the UIS. One is really astonished with all these new spaces […]
Meet MEI, the device created at UIS that protects and covers skin lesions caused by breast cancer treatment.

With the aim of providing quality of life to millions of women around the world who suffer from breast cancer, industrial designers Leydy Ariza and Jazmín Andrea Paredes, from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), created an innovative device that protects and covers the skin lesions produced by radiotherapy treatment. This project was possible thanks […]
UIS researchers warn about the use of vapes in society

A study conducted by UIS professors Jürg Niederbacher Velásquez and Álvaro Javier Idrovo Velandia, together with Jeadran Malagón Rojas and Yesith Toloza of the Environmental and Occupational Health Group of the National Institute of Health, showed that at least 59 people have died in the last 2 years due to the use of vapes and […]
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 […]