With the UIS Ingenium challenge, UIS Málaga kicked off Agricultural Sciences Week 2025
With a welcoming message from the coordinator of UIS Málaga, engineer Sandra Díaz, the 2025 Agricultural Sciences Week was officially opened — an event that brings together a diverse agenda of academic, research, innovation, and community engagement activities. The program includes the UIS Ingenium Challenge, the First International Meeting on Biotechnology and Sustainability, the Entrepreneurship […]
With classroom projects, UIS Málaga sparked vocations at the García Rovira University Fair
More than 300 10th and 11th grade students from different municipalities in the province of García Rovira participated in the University Fair led by the Governor’s Office, where the Industrial University of Santander shared its academic offerings, tuition-free policy, and the many benefits of being part of the UIS family. During the event, teachers and […]
UIS School of Biology, among the best in the country at the Colombian Limnology Congress
With outstanding participation and multiple awards, the School of Biology at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) positioned itself as one of the most outstanding institutions at the First Colombian Congress of Limnology and the Tenth Seminar on Limnology, an event that brought together researchers, teachers, and students from across the country to share advances […]
UIS participated in the XV Latin American Pain Congress and Seedbed Meeting 2025
Professor Esperanza Herrera Villabona, director of the Pain Study Group and CPK Seed Group, affiliated with the School of Physical Therapy, participated in the XV Latin American Pain Congress Fedelat and XXXIII Colombian Pain Congress, held in Bogotá from October 16 to 18. At the congress, she presented a paper entitled: “Relationship between supra-threshold pressure […]
Positive outcome of the seminar workshop “Understanding the comprehensive management of chronic pain”
The Pain Study Group and CPK seedbed of the School of Physical Therapy developed the seminar workshop “Understanding the comprehensive management of chronic pain: movement and balance for its transformation.” This educational event, held for the second time at the Industrial University of Santander, was aimed at the university community and the general community facing […]
Professor at the School of Medicine presented research on maternal lineages of the Andean population
With her work entitled “Genetic characterization of maternal lineages in the Colombian Andean population,” Professor Adriana Castillo, a member of the Department of Basic Sciences at the School of Medicine and director of Research and Extension (DIEF) at the Faculty of Health, participated as a speaker at the 60th National and 11th International Congress of […]
UIS presented awards under the OVA and INNOVA-TIC 2025 Call
With the purpose of strengthening the projects developed within the framework of the calls that make up the 2025 ICT Portfolio, the Vicerrectoría Académica UIS presented the awards granted to the professors from the Departamento de Cirugía and the Escuelas de Geología y de Ingeniería Metalúrgica y Ciencia de los Materiales UIS, winners of the […]
The UIS receives a visit from academic peers for the purpose of renewing the accreditation of the Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics program.
The kick-off meeting for the visit by the peers appointed by the National Accreditation Council (CNA) for the external evaluation process for the renewal of accreditation of the UIS Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics program was held in the UIS Rector’s Council Room: Diego Miguel Escobar Uribe, academic peer, and Saulo Mosquera López, coordinating peer. This […]
UIS professors participated in the Biological Sciences Congress in Montería
Professors Clara Inés Sánchez Suárez and Olga Marcela Medina Pérez from the School of Microbiology attended the 60th National and 11th International Biological Sciences Congress held in Montería. Professor Clara Inés gave an oral presentation entitled: “Resistance to triazole drugs in colonizing Candida species isolated from ICU patients in Santander.” This presentation was part of […]
UIS Nutrition students participated in a conference on sustainable food security
Fourth-semester students from the Nutrition and Dietetics program at the Industrial University of Santander, along with intern Laura Giovanna Álvarez Ibáñez and professor of Food Legislation and Standardization Sandra Bueno, participated in the “Standardizing with Mankka” conference organized by the Buen Ambiente Corporation (Corambiente). Corambiente is an interdisciplinary organization committed to environmental conservation and strengthening […]