The event organized by the Science and Technology Dissemination and Dissemination Team seeks to encourage new generations to ask questions, answers and increase their understanding of the phenomena of their daily lives, with a scientific approach.

The University of La Serena stands out for having public access to science and technology at the center of its mission. In this sense, the institution developed a series of guided tours for students from La Serena and Coquimbo, in order to bring the enjoyment and understanding of these topics closer.

For this, different initiatives were established in the Botany, Physiozoology and Microscopy laboratories, in the Department of Biology; Hydraulics in the Department of Civil Works Engineering; Educational Robotics in the Department of Mathematics; and Virtual Reality, application of the ULS Digital Campus, which simulates the skies of the Coquimbo Region.

These instances in which students visit different equipped spaces of the University, have the purpose of disseminating science and exciting new generations to ask questions, seek answers and increase understanding of the phenomena of their daily lives, with a scientific approach.

This was stated by Alejandra Leyton, coordinator of the Science and Technology Dissemination and Dissemination Team of the University of La Serena. "For the institution it is important to open its doors to the community and share the knowledge that is generated there. These interactive visits allow both things, through the initiatives presented to the students and professors who have visited us. We intend to carry out more activities like this, adding new academic units that allow us to expand the range of disciplines.

Benjamín Cuello, a student at the Horizontes School in Coquimbo, participated in the educational robotics initiative and highlighted how interesting and innovative it was for him and his course. “I was really struck by how to program robots and how wonderful the University is. It's the first time I've come and it's a place where you learn a lot and the robots we play today are fantastic.”

Rafael Tirado, teacher at the ULS Department of Mathematics, explained that the objective is to generate this type of innovative initiatives in the classroom. “Nowadays we can add different types of sensors to computers and carry out laboratory experiences, which are a bit difficult to carry out in schools because they are high cost. On the other hand, with these tools they can implement them in physics or biology, for example, and allow students to understand formulas in a better, more concrete way.”

In this way, the University of La Serena continues to work on sharing knowledge with the community in response to the institutional seal.

Written by Sergio Muñoz, Science and Technology Dissemination and Dissemination Team

The “5th Communication and Science Seminar: Demands of the Digital Ecosystem to Society, Culture and Contemporary Science”, organized by the ULS School of Journalism, will be held this Thursday, October 17 at the Andrés Bello Campus.

The initiative was born with the objective of strengthening the lines of work on research topics and, in addition, generating networks with different universities in the country. This activity will be carried out thanks to the award of the competition for the development of scientific events with funds from the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies (VIPULS), through the Research and Development Directorate (DIDULS) and the collaboration of the Universities of Concepción, Viña del Mar, Universidad de Los Andes and PAR EXPLORA CONICYT UCN Coquimbo.

It will also feature the participation of prominent speakers from the area of ​​social communication linked to science, including Dr. Tabita Moreno, from the University of La Concepción, Drs. Francisco Tagle Montt and Pedro Anguita, from the University of Los Andes, and the science, technology and investigation journalist from National Television of Chile, Daniel Silva.

The Director of the School of Journalism of the University of La Serena, Mg. Cristian Muñoz extended the invitation to all those who want to attend, pointing out that these instances serve to know “how the phenomenon is being carried out within the eventual media ecosystem that we have today, where we know that many profound transformations have been experienced that have “It changed the whole way communication and journalism was done before.”

The activity will take place this Thursday, October 17 in the TV Studio of the School of Journalism, located on the Andrés Bello Campus (Raúl Bitrán #1305). For more information you can visit the site https://5toseminariocomunicacion.wordpress.com/

Written by Consuelo Peña, School of Journalism

Giving thanks for the fiftieth anniversary and the commemoration of deceased academics and students of the University of La Serena was the central reason for the liturgical act.

The liturgical celebration took place in the hall of the Central House of the Andrés Bello Campus of the University of La Serena, and was attended by various authorities and academics from the Pedagogy in History and Geography career, who, accompanied by Father Fernando Castro, They appreciated the permanence of the discipline over time.

Likewise, the occasion allowed us to pray for the founding teachers, Dagoberto Campos Núñez, Juan Panades Vargas, Orlando Castillo and Iris Botarro Castro. Also, pray for the deceased academics, Roberto Páez Constela, Hugo Marín Varela, Edgardo Zelaya Caballero, Mario Ramírez and Héctor Carreño Latorre.

The liturgy is part of the week of activities for the 50th anniversary of the Pedagogy in History and Geography degree, which makes visible the commitment and leading role of the degree in favor of the training of well-rounded students in this subject.

Written by Paula Godoy, ULS journalist

On September 12, the editor of the magazine received the news from the Scopus Evaluation Committee, the prestigious scientific database of the publishing giant Elsevier, confirming its acceptance in the specialized catalog.

The magazine's mission Logos is to stimulate, disseminate and develop original scientific knowledge, generated by academics in the field of linguistics, philosophy and literature; as well as its countless points of contact.

Logos It is a scientific dissemination tool, developed at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of La Serena, in co-edition with the University of Giessen and is part of institutional history by becoming the first magazine of the study house to be indexed. in Scopus.

In this way, the magazine Logos, already indexed in Scielo since 2016, becomes the first humanities scientific journal to be accepted in Scopus (the most important scientific database dedicated to the humanities worldwide), associated with a university in the Coquimbo Region .

The importance of this achievement, as explained by the editor of the magazine and Director of the Department of Arts and Letters of the university, Dr. Omar Sabaj, is that the indexing reflects the prestige of the magazine and the quality of the work of its editorial board. This prestige, he points out, favors the University of La Serena in increasing its quality indicators; specifically, in humanities research. The editor emphasizes: “for the humanities, having a publication in a journal indexed in Scopus is equivalent to having a WOS publication in the first quartile.”

30 years of history

The current scientific prestige of Logos it's not by chance. 30 years of history of dedicated, rigorous and collaborative work have passed.

It was in 1989, when a group of academics from the Faculty of Humanities decided to start a publication that would bring together different research articles in linguistics, philosophy and literature for the preparation of the first volume of “Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literature". It was a publication that was promoted by the Interdisciplinary Master in Latin American Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies.

As time went by, the magazine increased its prestige among humanities intellectuals nationwide, becoming a showcase valued by authors for the high quality standards of their contributions.

Until 2009, its editors were the academics, Dr. Luis Soto Escobillana and Dr. Sergio Vergara Alarcón. The magazine was published in print and was published annually. In the same year, the current editor, Dr. Omar Sabaj, was tasked with starting the process of digitizing the magazine and increasing the periodicity, from one to two editions per year (one per semester). These innovations will remain in history as initial milestones in the indexing process of Logos in Scielo and, recently, in Scopus.

Thanks to the boost that the University of La Serena gave to its scientific journals, through the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies, by creating an online portal for access to these publications in 2012, Logos consolidated the path of sustained development of its prestige and reach in the national and international scientific community.

Consolidation is no coincidence

For Dr. Sabaj, this indexing in Scopus has been achieved thanks to the important work dedicated by the journal's editorial team. “The key to success has been coordinating a team with advanced knowledge in publications. One of the advantages of the editing team is that most of its members know the peer review process from research; Therefore, they have been able to apply the knowledge generated in the research to improve the system […] The process of editing a magazine is an activity in which it is impossible to estimate the workload. On the one hand, the number of tasks is very varied and, on the other, the pressure of deadlines and the continuous flow of quality content is a requirement to be able to be in the indexers,” added the academic.

Another characteristic that has increased the positive evaluation of Logos magazine is the fluid communication with the authors. This is according to Germán Varas, in charge of peer review for the magazine. “Nowadays, editors and magazines, in general, take a long time to respond to emails and carry out the process. Within national parameters, we are a super fast journal, which responds diligently to authors, which is always valued by researchers.”

The current work team is made up of its general editor, Dr. Omar Sabaj; associate editors, Dr. Sergio Vergara and Dr. Joachim Born, from the University of Giessen; editorial assistants, Dr. Miguel Fuentes and Dr. Horacio Simunovic; peer review manager, Dr.(c) Germán Varas; Paula Cabezas, in charge of layout and Pedro Palma, in charge of XML marking for Scielo.

The magazine turns 30 and celebrates it in the best way. In December, an event will be held at the Faculty of Humanities to celebrate this milestone of great institutional importance.

The event was aimed at head teachers, counselors, coordinators and management teams of educational establishments assigned to the University of La Serena program.

The Support and Effective Access to Higher Education Program (PACE ULS), in its line of work of the Preparation Component in Secondary Education (PEM), held the Seminar on Strengthening the Guidance Function: “Education and students of the Region of Coquimbo: A critical look and reflection for its future”, for the twelve educational establishments assigned to the government average, belonging to the house of higher education.

The central objective of the fourth version of the seminar was to develop reflective educational spaces aimed at revealing the importance of XNUMXst century competencies that are transversal to the students' curriculum, and recognizing the influential factors in the development of students' post-secondary expectations. belonging to the PACE ULS establishments.

Along these same lines, Jovanna González, academic manager of the PEM PACE ULS Component, explained that the fourth version of this seminar “was directly aimed at head teachers, counselors and/or management team. To achieve this, we program various activities associated with presentations by experts and the PACE team, collaborative work workshops and dialogue tables. I want to highlight the participation of the attendees, committed to the themes, collaborators and, above all, all empathetic with the situations raised in the seminar. I believe that we have once again met the goal and I hope that all those who participated in this new version of our seminar , replicate what they have learned in their educational communities.”

In this context, Juan Pablo Fajardo, PEM PACE ULS psychoeducational manager, pointed out that “within this instance we deliver didactic and methodological strategies that will allow teachers and directors to support the development of transversal competencies in students, in addition to promoting collaborative work between the professionals of the PACE program and the educational teams of the PACE ULS educational establishments.”

For María Alejandra Zúñiga, director of the Pedro Pablo Muñoz School in La Higuera, “this is our second year in the program and each year our expectations increase, I think it was a tremendous seminar. We have learned, remembered educational situations that we took with us to share in our establishment (…) I hope for a next opportunity to be present with more teachers from my team, so that they can share transversality, the sense of belonging with colleagues, peers, teachers and managers of the other PACE ULS establishments.”

While Eduardo Carvajal, PACE coordinator of the Raúl Silva Henríquez School in Ovalle, highlighted that “every exchange with the University is positive; Without a doubt, I have the same appreciation of this seminar, an enriching day. It is good to remember that we are working on the same path, our challenges as a school are to try to correct errors, try to adequately and timely inform our students of the processes necessary to enter tertiary education, and PACE is one more door that our students have to enter higher education.”

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program

The instance is a support for ULS academics who are interested in publication processes about teaching.

Great interest on the part of the academics of the University of La Serena has aroused the academic writing course: “The path towards academic publication on teaching in higher education”, organized by the Vice-rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies, which seeks to encourage and support professionals interested in publishing and researching teaching.

As in its first version, the course was aimed at academics who are beginning to prepare academic publications, with a topic focused on teaching in higher education.

This course, according to its rapporteur, Dr. Haylen Perines, from the ULS Multidisciplinary Research Institute in Science and Technology, emerged as an initiative of the Organizing Committee of the Congress of Teaching in Higher Education (CODES) “to promote the training of academics and their participation in said meeting. These courses were aimed at academics without experience in publications and who wanted to learn about writing a research article or an educational experience.”

In this instance, tools and knowledge were provided in this regard, so that academics can publish about their teaching, optimizing the professional work of each one, taking into consideration that “research and teaching must be united and our duty is to complement both areas,” stressed the academic.

It is worth remembering that the sessions of this course were held to prepare professionals who want to participate in the Congress on Teaching in Higher Education, which will have its first version on November 14 and 15 with the aim of generating an instance where work of academics on university teaching, an aspect so relevant in the professional work of universities.

Dr. Perines, who is part of the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee of CODES 2019, said: “we are very happy with the good reception of the congress, so far we have received more than 90 contributions and we trust that it will be a very positive event for all attendees and for our University.” 

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom