It is the personal appreciation of the astronomer regarding a reflection of the importance of science in this pandemic.

The Universe, Earth and Poetry Project ULS-1995 has generated a streaming talk program where academics from the University of La Serena have the opportunity to disseminate the work of the academic units in a digital environment dedicated to the general community. On this occasion, the Research and Development Directorate, with the participation of academic José Luis Nilo, addressed the topic “Stars, humans and a pandemic. What do they have in common?".

In the activity, José Luis Nilo began by raising concerns regarding space and other images related to science and later detailed the stages of the scientific method to reflect on a premise that he heard previously “The main weapons of this pandemic are science and the arts.” ”, the academic specifically took the scientific method to explain some forms of work in science and above all how with a detailed process in stages, one can avoid falling into the so-called Fake News – False News, or for him “Lies”, during this pandemic period.

After explaining and exemplifying each of the stages, he stopped and mainly emphasized the stage of communicating the results “Communication helps other scientists who carry out experiments like the ones we are doing.” Furthermore, he added “Once I find the results, that I determine them, I must make them public, I must share the data with which I obtained those results, and most importantly, I must share all the mechanics that allowed me to achieve those results. That is the only way that others will be able to replicate my experiment, and if my experiment has been rigorous they will find the same results as mine.”

For those who want to see the full talk, you can go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkPiCzeQ7HQ

Cycle of Dissemination Talks of the ULS Universe Earth and Poetry Project – 1995

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Written by Jenifer Araya, Diveuls

These instances have been replicated in 4 of the 12 PACE ULS Educational Establishments (EE) to date.

The team of the High School Preparation Component (PEM) of the Access to Higher Education (PACE) program, belonging to the Accompaniment Office (OAME) of the Institutional Academic Vice Rector, is executing a talk: Special PDT, for the and the students of 4th grade, belonging to the different Educational Communities attached to the program of our university.

These instances are part of the cycle of talks framed in the University Transition Test (PDT), which aim to provide updated information on the 2022 Admission process, including the data to carry out the process, emphasizing the review of the agendas of each of the compulsory and elective tests.

So far, the PDT talks have been held in 4 of the 12 Educational Establishments (EE) PACE ULS: Liceo Pedro Regalado Videla de Andacollo; Estela Ávila Molina de Ovalle High School; Gabriela Mistral High School in La Serena and the Multipurpose Municipal High School in Salamanca; which have had an important participation of the student communities, with which it has been possible to review some model questions published by the Demre.

When inquiring about the holding of these talks, Patricia Rodríguez, counselor at the Salamanca Municipal Polyvalent High School, stated: “the expectations lie in providing our students with information instances aimed at strengthening decision-making, highlighting that being informed constitutes a strategy of active coping in the face of this process of transition to higher education”.

For her part, Marcela Altamirano, PEM PACE ULS Teaching Professional, explained that after this process of general information on the PDT, the PEM PACE ULS Academy will be held, which will be focused on the development and strengthening of academic skills and also on the preparation of each of the tests that students must take: “our expectations are that they actively participate in each of the sessions that are part of the academy, both synchronous and asynchronous. As a team, we hope and believe that this will be the case, as there has been a good attendance and very favorable comments on the activities that have taken place so far."

It is expected that this virtual instance will be repeated in the remaining Educational Establishments (EE), therefore, the PEM PACE ULS team is already managing, together with the management teams of the communities attached to the program, the new dates for the execution of these talks.

Written by PACE OAME ULS Communications.

The activity is aimed at Graduates and Graduates of the University of La Serena and will be carried out via Zoom with streaming through YouTube.

The Graduate Monitoring Office (OSE), in its line of strengthening skills, invites you to participate in the talk titled “New ways of working. Post-pandemic work challenges”, which will be given by Psychologist, MBA and Ontological Coach, Carlos Díaz Lastreto, on Thursday, July 8 at 15 p.m. virtually.

Regarding the topic of reflection, the Psychologist – Master Maximiliano Jiménez, coordinator of the activity and in charge of the Skills Strengthening Area at the OSE, announced: “The focus of this activity is to talk about the skills and competencies that students have to develop. professionals to adapt to the change brought by the pandemic. We are facing a possible return in person after more than a year with different routines and this will require a new process of learning the new presence.”

For his part, the rapporteur Carlos Díaz highlighted the perspective from which the topic will be discussed “it is aimed at people who are interested in having a look at the ways of working and the great ideas about how to look for work. My intention is that we can talk with the participants about how a professional is an offer to the world, in terms of what has been called human capital and relational capital.” Furthermore, Díaz referred to some changes in the current work modality, “in this line I would like to tell you that, of course, one has the somewhat old idea, at this point in life, that a job is full-time, 45 hours, from Monday to Friday, from 9 to 5 in the afternoon, but what has been called - the typical forms of work - today is quite atypical, in fact today a lot of work is created that does not have exactly that form, a shift job, for example, 4 by 4 and work 12 hours a day, or work systems of part-time on one side and half-time on the other or people who work on projects or ventures (...) so in this sense I I would like the reflection we do in the conversation to be to think about what offer I can be to the world, in terms of typical employment or atypical employment and, therefore, how I can increase my human capital, or my relational capital to be able to make a “A good offer that means I have a job and invent work and position myself professionally that way.”

The talk is aimed at professionals from the University of La Serena, however, it will be open to the general community. To participate, you can contact us directly through social networks @egresadosuls or by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Written by Jenifer Araya, Diveuls

Sustained meeting between the rector and the rectors of the regional universities with the elected constituents was a first meeting point, where the study houses offered them support and collaboration in capacities, critical mass and infrastructure to carry out the important work that they will carry out within the framework of the Constituent Process that will give life to our new Magna Carta.

“We want you to know of the will of the regional universities to be able to help and support the constitutional process, through the work that each of you must perform as elected constituents, the role that you must fulfill is of the highest value, yours. A good part of the future of our country depends on it, therefore, as regional universities we want to offer you all the collaboration that we can provide within the framework of this work, in terms of research, improvement, publications, infrastructure, links with the environment with the communities and territories, in short all the work we have done to determine territorial realities and study the problems that a country as unequal as Chile has,” said rector Patricio Sanhueza, President of AUR in the framework of this meeting.

Natacha Pino A., Vice President of AUR and Rector of the University of Aysén, in her speech thanked the conventional members for their willingness to participate in this activity, and reiterated the importance of the link between university and territory. “We should be able to take care of the needs of each of our regions, therefore, it is important to visualize the connection between university and territory, between university and local governments so that the key issues for the regions are in the discussion, these issues are raised. and that, as constituents, you can bring to the plenary session of the convention, issues that have to do with the region, with the localities, with the universities, variables that we have to identify and keep in view to design a new Constitution," said the Rector Pino.

The rector Diego Durán J. of the Catholic University of Maule and Vice President of AUR, along with offering the collaboration of the regional schools gathered at AUR, highlighted how transcendental and significant the participatory construction of a new Constitution is and, in This context maintained that, “all the dialogues, all the decisions that are going to take place, mark a particular period of time in our history, because it is going to mark a new course, therefore, I want to congratulate you for being the protagonists of this change, and I would like to put all the regional universities that are present here at your service, since the work they are going to do will require collaboration and critical reflection, complementary work that can be used to make decisions. In this sense, there are our institutions with quite significant territorial experience and links with communities and localities that we offer, in a voluntary and open gesture, through the work that can be developed in our institutions,” he argued.

The university authority of UCM also announced that, as this Constituent Process progresses, the regional universities will contribute to the national discussion with key topics for the territories, material that they hope will be collected by the different constituents.

For their part, the conventionists who were part of this meeting recognized as fundamental the contribution that universities located in the territories can provide to the process and, therefore, they were grateful for the offer and the opportunity for collaboration offered, showing interest in continue linking with the academy to support its management.

Within the framework of this meeting, Yanela Gómez, constituent of district No. 27, in her speech stressed the importance of advice and links with universities since they are institutions that form citizens from the territories and promote decentralization and legitimize processes, "We are in a task where we will have new forms of political mediation, new forms of participation, where the legitimization of the process will be given by the level of transparency and impact that people hope to achieve in this Constituent Process and in that sense, it is very It is important what universities can systematize, and therefore legitimize in this process,” he pointed out.

Raúl Celis, constituent for District No. 7 said, “thank you very much for the invitation to the Group of Regional Universities, the support that you can give us is relevant because it represents independent support from partisan interests or interest groups, which "It will allow us to collect local realities, their main concerns and have a better knowledge of educational problems at their various levels."

Likewise, Fuad Chahín, constituent for district No. 22, thanked the excellent willingness of the participating universities, stating, “I appreciate being able to meet with you when you deem it necessary to be able to listen to you, receive your valuable contributions in the different areas of the debate that we are going to discuss.” to have at the convention”, he specified.

The meeting held via zoom on Thursday, July 01, was convened by the Group of Regional Universities AUR, was attended by rectors, elected constituents from various regions, who as the conventional work advances hope to continue linking to contribute with different perspectives and experiences to the democratic and participatory process that will give life to our new fundamental charter.

Source: AUR Communications

The activity organized by the ULS Department of Legal Sciences, was inaugurated by the National Prosecutor, Jorge Abbott Charme.

“The challenges in the prosecution and prosecution in the criminal process against organized crime and the crime of money laundering: Are some adjustments to the system required?” was the name of the seminar organized by the Department of Legal Sciences and the Law degree, attached to the Faculty of Social, Business and Legal Sciences, and which included the participation of the National Prosecutor of the Public Ministry of Chile, Jorge Abbott Charme.

The seminar was inaugurated by the National Prosecutor, who thanked the invitation and noted on the subject that “20 years after the reform began, many adjustments are evidently required. From the point of view of the Public Ministry, we have been able to address this issue until now mainly by taking administrative measures. And we have tried to address the investigation and prosecution of this type of conduct through decisions aimed at assigning prosecutors specialized in this matter, in the different regions. But they do not have exclusive dedication, consequently, they do not have the possibility of permanently working in the area, having criminal organizations at the helm that do have the resources to improve their actions more and more every day. That is why we believe that it is necessary to take measures in the order of procedural law.”

Lawyers and professors from various areas related to the subject also presented, such as Professor Juan Carlos Manríquez, from the law firm Manríquez, Benavides & Compañía, who presented the topic “Economic crime committed by legal entities, businesses evading the law and money laundering.” assets: fact of connection and circle of authors. “Firewalls to criminal prosecution.” Secondly, lawyer Marcelo Contreras Rojas, belonging to the Financial Analysis Unit, presented the topic “Role of the UAF. within the framework of Law 19.913, its relationship with the Public Ministry. Work done and pending challenges.”

During the second block, it was the ULS professor's turn. and lawyer, Mg. Carlos Esperguen, who is a member of the Coquimbo Region Criminal Defender's Office and presented the topic "Trafficking of cultural property as a modern manifestation of the crime of money laundering." Then it was the turn of Dr. Carlos Del Río Ferretti, from the Catholic University of Maule, who presented the topic “Notes on procedural law on the criminal prosecution of the crime of money laundering.” Finally, Dr. Mario Durán, from the University of Atacama, ended the day with the topic “Liability of legal entities in Chile. Prevention system and model. Observations and criticisms.

Finally, the Dean of the Faculty of Social, Business and Legal Sciences, Dr. Luperfina Rojas Escobar, thanked the speakers and noted that “it is a privilege that this academic debate and legal and social reflection can be generated in our University, more even because our house of studies houses a Law School with a seal of public service, ethics and commitment to the common good. This seminar also has the close collaboration of the Criminal Defense Office of the Coquimbo region, headed by its Defender Inés Rojas Varas, an institution with which we have worked together since the Law Degree of our Faculty was born, an alliance that, Starting this year, it is formalized through a framework collaboration agreement.”

If you want to relive it, you can visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swne-YX5qu8

Written by Consuelo Peña Gamboa - FACSEJ

The activity was carried out within the framework of the Scientific Inquiry Deepening Course, with the purpose of bringing participants closer to the topics worked on in the classroom in an experiential way.

One of the commitments of the ICEC Program is to ensure that teachers can reflect on the learning obtained in their training sessions and, above all, apply this knowledge in their local environment. Therefore, one of the actions contemplated by the initiative is to carry out field trips somewhere in the region, where participants can directly contemplate the socio-scientific problems that affect the natural environment.

“What is more significant than the classroom moving to a local space, which is part of our daily lives, where we can observe and analyze the various factors that intervene in the dynamics of this landscape, this geography, natural phenomena, population dynamics , anthropic intervention, which are factors that shape and modify it over time,” said academic Gloria Núñez.

However, given the health situation caused by COVID-19, this year an extraordinary outing was carried out virtually in the Elqui River Mouth Wetland.

On this occasion, the activity was carried out by the Biodiversity advisor, Elizabeth Villalobos, who, through recordings previously made in person at the Desembocadura del Río Elqui Wetland together with the ICEC-ULS team, managed to explain the topics to be worked on related to the generality, biodiversity and socio-scientific problems.

“As a reflection, human beings are not inherently bad, but the problems arise from the need to learn to live together in a way in which we can all meet the needs of people, animals, and other living beings, and thus having the space to develop their activities,” said Professor Villalobos.

It should be noted that field trips constitute a didactic strategy that allows one to verify in one place what was learned in the classroom or to gather information in an experiential way on a topic worked on. This allows learning to be contextualized in a specific place and time, and thus be able to work on scientific inquiry in the local space.

“It is important to consider for the teaching of science, the geographical space and socio-scientific aspects, which are strategies that link teachers and students with places in their city or context, promoting knowledge of the territory through identification, knowledge and/or or resolution of socio-scientific problems, developing scientific skills and contributing to citizen education,” concluded Professor Brayan Omar Castillo, coordinator in Field and Logistics.

Virtual Terrain activities can be reviewed at http://icecregiondecoquimbo.cl/terreno-virtual/

Written by Daniela Ledezma, ICEC