Engineer Luis Orlando Aguirre elected as representative of Colombian university professors to Cesu

With 31 votes in favor, out of a total of 35, the professor attached to the School of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science of the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), is re-elected as representative of university professors to the Consejo Nacional de Educación Superior (Cesu). “For the process, 23 public and 12 private universities registered. […]
UIS graduates winners of the e-Hackathon on water and sanitation in informal settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022

With the creation of a portable water purification module that seeks to benefit communities living in informal settlements in large cities in Colombia and Latin America, graduates of the Universidad Industrial de Santander won the e-Hackathon on water and sanitation in informal settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022. This competition, promoted by the […]
Learn about all the details of the institutionalization program for research seedbeds and the support to research groups of the VIE 2022 program portfolio.

Communications Department With the commitment to maintain a permanent and constructive dialogue with the research community of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, the Vice Rector’s Office for Research and Extension invites you to participate in a new virtual meeting, ‘UN ESPACIO CON LA VIE’, which will be held next Friday, March 11th, 2022 at 9 […]
Vie launches “Movie”, the Whatsapp channel to attend to mobility program requests

Communications Department The Vice Rector’s Office for Research and Extension (VIE) offers a new channel of attention via WhatsApp for professors, students, and visiting researchers interested in the mobility program, which offers the possibility of presenting and comparing research results in national and international academic and scientific scenarios. MOVIE is the WhatsApp line where personalized […]
UIS Library will be open 24 hours a day during final exams season

In order to offer services and spaces that facilitate students’ preparation for final exams, the UIS Central Library will remain open 24 hours a day. This reinforces the strategy of the Sistema de Apoyo a la Excelencia Académica (SEA). The additional schedule will begin on Friday, March 11, from 6:00 a.m. until Saturday, March 19th, […]
UIS Central Research Laboratory has processed more than 2,450 RT-PCR samples during 2022

Communications Department The Universidad Industrial de Santander is committed to the diagnosis and care of the university and the Santander community in general and has continued its efforts to reduce the effects of the pandemic with a strategy to identify positive cases of SARS-CoV-2. Since January 2022, UIS has offered weekly spaces for taking and […]
The entire community is invited to participate in the awards ceremony of the XII Concurso Nacional de Libro de Cuentos UIS

Communications Department This Wednesday, March 16th, the Award Ceremony of the XII Concurso Nacional de Libro de cuentos UIS 2022 will take place. The event will be held at the Aula Máxima of Mechanical Engineering at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) from 4:00 p.m. onwards. On this occasion, the winner of the XII Concurso […]
The Coco Bags with didactic material from “La Casa de Coco” arrived in Bosconia

Communications Department The Bosconia Rural Educational Institution and its branches A, B and C already know Coco and have in their classrooms the didactic material (Coco Bags) that will accompany them during the following months and in the implementation of the Second Season of La Casa de Coco. A total of 145 elementary school students […]
Bulletin no. 45 – green light! The pandemic in Colombia completed two years and begins to show a downward trend

According to the Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, the country shows a decrease in the so-called fourth peak of the SarsCov2 pandemic, with a favorable epidemiological situation and the consolidation of the downward trend in positivity and deaths. To date, more than 6 million Colombians have been infected with the virus. In the case […]
“With these donations our classrooms can be improved and our classes will be more dynamic.”

Communications Department There are efforts that bring great satisfaction, such as the one given by the students of San Luis Gonzaga School, in El Carmen del Chucurí, to the delegation of the Donaciones con responsabilidad Social program of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, which arrived there to deliver school furniture and equipment that will allow […]