This type of observation seeks to counteract the effect of the earth's atmosphere, which greatly limits the sharpness of the objects being observed.

Adaptive optics is a technique that allows us to correct in real time the effects produced by our atmosphere, allowing us to obtain much sharper, high-resolution images, without the need to observe from space.

With the aim of making known the functionality of this astronomical technique, the talk “Observing the Universe in high resolution with Adaptive Optics” will be held, which is part of the AstroSerena cycle “Exploring the cosmos from the Coquimbo Region”, organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of La Serena and the Gemini Observatory, with the collaboration of the Gabriela Mistral Regional Library and the financing of the ALMA-CONICYT Project #31180047.

This talk will take place on Friday, April 26 at 18:30 p.m. at the Regional Library, and will be taught by Rodrigo Carrasco, astronomer responsible for the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager at the Gemini South Observatory, who will present the basic concepts of adaptive optics and some scientific results obtained with this technique, which rival the quality of images obtained from space.

Admission to this activity is free and for all audiences interested in astronomical work in the region within the framework of the next solar eclipse.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

The meeting aims to foster a convergence of leaders and activists of social transformation who, through various alternative pedagogical practices, seek to forge more just, equitable, sustainable and participatory societies for Our America.

Representatives from different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will meet at the University of La Serena in the Fifth Meeting of “Our America” (ENA 2019), an event supported by the Rector's Office and whose purpose is to generate a deep dialogue and reflection on different topics linked to education, conceived as a channel for human development.

The ENA was born in Puerto Rico with the challenge of getting closer to the southern countries. The next meetings were planned there: in Bolivia 2013, El Salvador in 2015, Brazil 2017 and, finally, Chile 2019. It is a meeting space between peers; a search to build, through education, alternative forms for Our America.

“Our Latin America is populated by stories of oppression that pulse active resistance, founded on the bond of love, on the mutual care of those below, and from below. That is one of the meanings that we want to share from the ENA organization, largely based on our work and feelings during the event, but we also understand that something else is needed, something that reflects the harshness of our situation. "It begins a fabric that transcends nationalities and is found in the nuances of Latin American cultures to build a platform that contains us and gives us impetus," said the organizing committee, which on the part of the ULS is led by academics from the Department of Education, Silvia López de Maturana and Yanola González, and the former academic Carlos Calvo.

The organizing committee added that “a clear decision emerges to establish the Nuestra América Network, a meeting space in different spaces for views, conversations and mutual enrichment. A network that has not yet shown its shape, but is present in the links, by recognizing us as peers, by taking us into account in this path of 'our American' emancipation through education. Education that is just another space for struggle and action, which is only accompanied by the diverse and innumerable causes that advance for that same emancipation of the region.”

ENA 2019 is held under the slogan “Decolonization, transformation and emancipation” and is open to the entire community through prior registration on the website: http://www.encuentrodenuestraamerica.org/encuentros/chile-2019/.

According to the schedule, an intimate session will be held between May 6 and 8, while a massive meeting will be held on May 9 and 10 at the ULS open to the entire interested community. Finally, on May 12, a festival will be held in Santiago to disseminate successful experiences in favor of the common objectives of the organization.

The classes included stories in Kreole explained in Spanish, Chilean idioms, songs and various performances.

Happy and grateful with the University of La Serena and their community were the Haitian citizens residing in the Tierras Blancas sector who participated in the workshops Intercultural Literacy, taught by students of the career of Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education from the ULS, with the support of their teachers.

The pedagogical proposal was based on the Freirian methodology (Paulo Freire), which consists of learning through dialogue and didactics. “We had 10 very diverse, dynamic and dialogue classes, we read stories in Kreole for them to explain in Spanish, we saw Chilean idioms, we did skits, we sang songs from their country and Chile, etc.,” explained Fernanda Ramírez, a student at the career that was part of the group of young people in charge of the workshops that were given at the ULS Education Department and at the Tierras Blancas sports center.

“We do not have enough words to express the happiness and satisfaction we feel. We don't know how to describe the importance of this workshop in our lives here in Chile. It brings us many new things such as knowledge, friendship, animation, technique and others,” said Santo Accade, who participated in the workshops with Carmène Jn Exumé, Alix Colot, Donald Nelson, Youdeline Derival and Gary Pierre.

During the closing ceremony of the program, the Haitian citizen also thanked those who supported them and were always there to help them and shared the Chilean culture, “especially Clara Tirado, Carlos Calvo and Silvia López de Maturana and the students of Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education, who were always available and willing to support us with dedication.”

For academic Clara Tirado, coordinator of the Community Pedagogy Project of the same degree and within which this initiative was framed, she stated that it was “a milestone within the University, it is a tremendously important instance. It is the closing of a workshop, but it is also a new beginning. And this is what corresponds to a State university, which has a fundamental role in social inclusion and in the training of committed citizens.”

The academic also congratulated the students, “future teachers, protagonists of this process, for participating committedly as Cultural Literacy Teachers, from an intercultural perspective.”

Written by Gonzalo Lozano and Claudia Farías, DirCom

The purpose of the call is to finance projects that aim to contribute to the improvement of academic quality through the line of student entrepreneurship.

The Directorate of Institutional Studies and Planning of the University of La Serena invites all regular undergraduate students of the ULS to apply for the Annual Call for projects of the Student Development Fund of the Ministry of Education.

The purpose of the call is to finance projects that aim to contribute to the improvement of academic quality through the line of student entrepreneurship and promote the development of learning, comprehensive training and the improvement of the quality of life of students.

The application period runs from Monday, April 15 to Friday, May 17, 2019.

For more information and to withdraw bases, contact Lucy Bugueño to the mail lbugueno@userena or to the phone 51-2-334668.

We share an opinion column by the astronomer and researcher at the University of La Serena, Dr. Guillermo Damke, about the astronomical event of the decade in the Coquimbo Region: the total solar eclipse on July 2.

This publication is part of the actions promoted by the institution to explain this phenomenon to the national and regional community.

See the column published by El Día newspaper (Saturday April 20)

One of the scheduled activities is the certified training of the corporation's teachers to serve as scientific-educational monitors of the astronomical phenomenon.

A series of joint actions aimed at the community will develop the University of La Serena and Gabriel González Videla Municipal Corporation, with the purpose of educating and delivering relevant information about the total solar eclipse next July 2nd.

In a meeting in which the Rector of the state campus, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, the president of the ULS Board of Directors, Ernesto Velasco, the general secretary of the Municipal Corporation Gabriel González Videla de La Serena, Patricio Bacho, the Director of Research participated and Development, Dr. Sergio Torres Flores and the Director of Strategic Communication of the University, Mg. Carola Espinoza, it was agreed to develop various activities, including certified training for the corporation's teachers so that they can serve as scientific-educational monitors of the astronomical phenomenon.

The municipal corporation will also make its establishments and health centers available for the University to hold educational talks for students and staff, within the framework of the dissemination activities that the institution is carrying out in the territory as an educational-scientific partner of this event of global interest.