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RCN News took its set to the UIS and highlighted its educational impact

Noticias RCN en la UIS.

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

Investigadores UIS

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

Premiación durante el foro HUS

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

Melanie Gallego Uribe junto a su entrenador de l selección nacional

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 […]