The UIS brought the Festival of Lights to a magical close with a concert that lit up the Christmas spirit
The Industrial University of Santander (UIS) experienced a memorable evening with the official closing of the UIS Festival of Lights, an event that brought together music, tradition, and the deep sense of community that characterizes the institution. On Thursday, December 11, the Luis A. Calvo Auditorium was filled with harmony with Luces de Adviento (Advent […]
UIS Rector participated in the panel discussion “Let’s Meet in the Regions”
The rector of the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Hernán Porras Díaz, participated in the panel “Let’s Meet in the Regions,” a space led by Radio Cadena Nacional, Canal RCN, and Diario La República, which brought together 26 regional leaders to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of the department in terms of competitiveness, sustainability, […]
New edition of ‘UISALUD Contigo’ highlights advances in healthcare infrastructure, quality, and innovation
The tenth edition of the UISALUD Contigo newsletter, the official publication of the Specialized Health Unit of the Industrial University of Santander, is now available. This issue highlights the main institutional achievements of 2025, including the historic expansion of infrastructure, outstanding results in quality audits, and the strengthening of biomedical innovation projects developed between academia […]
Art, a refuge for the creativity of artist Nicolás Cadavid
Nicolás Cadavid’s connection to art began at a very young age. He grew up surrounded by encyclopedias on painting and art history, thanks to his father, a book seller, who always kept copies of those that marked history, and among canvases, thanks to his mother, who gave him watercolors so he could capture the art […]
The School of Nutrition manages dual degree agreements with the University of Guadalajara
The School of Nutrition and Dietetics was delighted to welcome Dr. Elia Herminia Valdés Miramontes, an expert professor in functional food development and nutrition at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, who gave a keynote lecture entitled “Biofunctional potential of plant metabolites: the Milpa diet, a proposal for healthy eating” on Tuesday, December 9, 2025. The […]
Architect Daniel Bonilla led the First Colloquium on Bioclimatic Architecture at the Socorro Headquarters
The UIS Socorro Campus held the First Colloquium on Bioclimatic Architecture, an academic event aimed at students in the Architecture and Construction Engineering programs. The event included a lecture by architect Daniel Bonilla, who presented his lines of work and experiences developed over three decades of professional practice with the Bogotá Architecture Workshop. During the […]
RCN News took its set to the UIS and highlighted its educational impact
The Faculty of Health at the Industrial University of Santander (UIS) was the setting for the live broadcast of Canal RCN’s midday news program, which visited Bucaramanga as part of its “Encontrémonos en las regiones” (Let’s meet in the regions) series. One of the main focuses of this broadcast was to take a closer look […]
UIS researchers won first place in research from the Santander Ophthalmological Foundation
Residents and professors from the Ophthalmology postgraduate program won first place in the “Second Foscal Innovation and Research Meeting.” The work “Comparative results of Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty and automated Descemet’s peeling,” presented in poster format during the “Second FOSCAL Research and Innovation Meeting,” won first place in the secondary source research category in November […]
UIS resident wins third place in research at the III HUS Teaching and Innovation Forum
María Camila Velandia Avendaño, a third-year UIS pediatrics resident and member of the PAIDOS research group, won third place in the poster category for her research project entitled “Clinical, sociodemographic, and nutritional characterization of overweight or obese children between the ages of 2 and 12 treated at the Santander University Hospital.” as part of the […]
IPRED-UIS student wins bronze at the 2025 Bolivarian Games
Colombia and the UIS continue to fly high thanks to sports. This time, it was Melanie Gallego Uribe, a second-semester pharmacy student at the Institute for Regional Outreach and Distance Education (IPRED-UIS). She is captain of the Industrial University of Santander’s indoor volleyball team, but she shone at the 2025 Bolivarian Games, where she represented […]