Students from the different educational establishments assigned to the Support and Effective Access to Higher Education Program, PACE ULS, are part of the initiative.

The Accompaniment Program (PACE) of the University of La Serena, within the framework of the area of ​​Secondary Education Preparation (PEM), implemented the so-called “PACE ULS Academy”, in its line of work to generate actions to reinforce transversal skills in the Academic Area and the Vocational Guidance Area of ​​the educational establishments assigned to the Program.

The general objective of the PACE ULS Academy is to prepare young people in 3rd grade for the first years of Higher Education, seeking to enhance the development of their transversal skills, with emphasis on those related to their areas of interest and also allowing them a early approach to university life.

The PEM PACE ULS academic manager, Jovanna González, explained the operation of this instance: “the work of the Academy is being carried out through reinforcement cycles, which seek to provide support to students interested in continuing Higher Education studies at universities. o Technical Training Center, prioritizing areas of reinforcement that can bring them closer to a potential career, once they graduate from high school.”

In this same context, the PACE ULS Secondary Education Preparation Coordinator, Loreto Garrido, indicated that “the two years of admission to Higher Education, an early leveling program has been carried out in the Higher Education Support Area, AES PACE ULS. , and in the diagnosis it is evident that the students know in a very general way the careers to which they have applied, in addition that they are unaware of the competencies associated with the graduation profile and the labor field of the areas they have chosen. Therefore, the Academy helps to reinforce these lines and also motivate students to continue studying.”

Regarding the operation of the PACE ULS Academy, it is operational in the three provinces of the Coquimbo Region, in order to be able to work more expeditiously with the students of the educational establishments assigned to the Program: in the Province of Elqui , at the University of La Serena for the Gabriela Mistral High School, Marta Brunet High School, Pedro Aguirre Cerda School in La Serena, Pedro Pablo Muñoz School in La Higuera and Pedro Regalado Videla High School in Andacollo.

In the Province of Limarí, on the Lamarí ULS Campus, for the Estela Ávila Molina High School in Perry, the Raúl Silva Henríquez School, the El Ingenio School of Administration and Commerce in Ovalle, and the Alberto Gallardo Lorca High School in Punitaqui. And in Choapa, at the CEDUC UCN headquarters in Los Vilos, for the Liceo Municipal Polivalente Salamanca and Liceo Federico Lohse de Los Vilos. There are 180 students benefiting from the initiative.

The PEM Coordinator specified that “any action that allows our students to arrive better prepared and informed about their vocational option, both at the level of basic competencies and transversal academic and socio-educational skills, is already a step to enter Higher Education in a better way.” way and that is what we are looking for as an area and as a Program.”

The director of the Gabriela Mistral High School, Lorena Rodríguez, referred to the action created by the PACE ULS Program. “Wonderful for my students is the opportunity they have to feel that they still have a long way to go, when there is no link between the University and the students, they do not realize what lies beyond secondary education; However, when the path is shown, it is demonstrated with experiences and experiences, it is shown that there is still a long way to go and that it is the most beautiful thing to enter Higher Education,” she stated.

For the student of the El Ingenio College of Administration and Commerce, Alison Barraza, participant of the PACE ULS Limarí Academy, it is “a challenge for all of us who participate in it, because it is a challenge to apply the subject delivered by the teachers Immediately, it scares me personally, but it's wonderful that they motivate you so much to keep going and work hard to learn.”

Regarding this project, the Academic Vice Chancellor of the University of La Serena, Dr. Jorge Catalán, delivered a message to the students of the PACE ULS Academy, pointing out that “fortunately the University has formed an excellent team for the PACE Accompaniment Program , a group of young people who have known how to handle the different implications that appear along the way; This Academy is an articulated part of actions that are in operation, which have highlighted the vocational difficulty of students in selecting a career in the first instance and entering Higher Education, due to different variables, age or other personal situations. This Academy is a complementary task of a general plan, we must feel proud that our University is starting a new way of realizing this commitment, cooperating to shorten the gap in education and I can only say enjoy, take advantage of these opportunities and welcome to the University of La Serena.”

Source: Press PACE ULS Accompaniment Program

The activity, intended for School Directors and Career Coordinators, was carried out by professionals from the Office of Institutional Studies.

The Teaching Directorate, together with the Institutional Studies Office belonging to the Institutional Studies and Planning Directorate, successfully developed the Workshop for School Directors and Career Coordinators called: “Use of Indicators and Reports for Curriculum Management.”

The meeting held at the Technology Center of the Faculty of Engineering (CETECFI), had the objective of internalizing them in the use of the institutional platform of indicators and all the information products that the Studies Office makes available to the academic and administrative units. , to promote curriculum management.

The Office of Institutional Studies, on the occasion, officially launched its website, which contains open and updated information available to the entire university community.

This time, the day included the faculties of Humanities, Social and Economic Sciences, Engineering and Sciences, whose representatives received a copy of the pocket book "ULS Figures", and an induction to the web application DataULS App. In addition, some practical exercises were carried out, which included an evaluation at the end of the day, to become familiar with the institutional indicator dashboards, available on the Phoenix platform.

For two years we have been working together with “La Brújula” Cowork, where students in their final year of law school guide entrepreneurs and advise in different areas.

In the Auditorium of the Law program, belonging to the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the University of La Serena, the closing keynote talk of the Legal Clinic subject was held, called: “Basic obligations of a taxpayer” , by the teacher and Director of the Department of Economics and Business Sciences, Mg. Alberto Hernandez.

In the talk, organized by the Law major, the teacher gave a complete presentation of the different aspects that an entrepreneur must take into account when forming a company, as well as maintaining up-to-date obligations for the proper development of the organization. .

Entrepreneurs assigned to “La Brújula” Cowork were present at the meeting, who received advice throughout 2018 from the final year students of the Law degree and their tutors. The Director of the Law degree, Mg., also participated. Germán Solís, and the teacher, Mg. Elizabeth Escobar, in charge of the Legal Clinic chair, who throughout the academic year has accompanied the students in this work of linking with the environment.

It should be noted that through this type of advice, the students maintained direct contact with those who required real help, and thus put into practice everything they learned during their years of study.

The management with “La Brújula” Cowork was carried out through the Management of the degree, achieving an associative work agreement, maintaining rules and establishing deadlines that both parties have respected, thus allowing a good development of the interventions that the students have carried out. with your real clients.

For the Director of the degree, this type of work is of special relevance, since it allows his students to connect with the world of real work, in addition to having a clear visualization of what is done in the work field. Likewise, he highlighted the relationship they have with “La Brújula”, classifying it as “an agreement that has borne excellent results, where they are very satisfied with the work of our students and with the Clinical professor. Cowork has provided us with these entrepreneurs, so that our students can put their knowledge into practice.”

The subject of Legal Clinic is within the study program of the Law degree, and for the year 2019 it will continue to be developed with advice to the entrepreneurs of La Brújula” Cowork, also strengthening the connection with the environment and the purpose of establishing networks support and contact with the community.

The initiative has allowed ULS students to develop their reports, theses and practices in strategic areas of knowledge.

The original idea, which gave life to the Multidisciplinary Research Group in Energy and Environmental Management, GIMEGA, bore its first fruits. The student Sofía Saldívar, with a degree in Laboratory Chemist, became the first student to qualify for 100% Ineergias, an initiative that aimed to bring together various forms of work to condense knowledge and develop studies for the students and the University of La Serena. .

The commitment of the professionals in charge of this group has been to carry out studies in multidisciplinary areas, where chemistry and physics are mixed, associated with energy efficiency and sustainability, and where students were able to develop their knowledge in reports, theses and practices.

In this context and after several months of continuous and systematic work, Sofía Zaldívar carried out different actions aimed at studying how the properties of zinc sulfide (ZnS) change by modifying certain parameters in the process of obtaining the material. What she achieved with this study was the optimization of the process of obtaining and standardizing the parameters. Thus, it was shown that the material under certain manufacturing conditions is an excellent candidate to be used in solar cells (devices that transform sunlight into electric current).

For the Director of Institutional Studies and Planning of the University of La Serena, Mg. César Espíndola, “it is a relevant milestone, a commitment that the Rector entrusted three years ago, to position an area of ​​energy efficiency and sustainability as an area of ​​development for the University. Today we have research teams, assigned researchers, online Master's programs, Doctorate programs and today we can see how a student graduates after having gone through the systematic work plan of this Institutional Improvement Program.

Likewise, Espíndola highlighted the preparation of two students who will represent the institution in an international Congress. These are the students of Environmental Civil Engineering, Nicole Muñoz and Luis Felipe Galleguillos, who will present at the ''3rd Colombian Congress of Advanced Oxidation Processes''. 

“This accounts for the creation of a school, a group where researchers and more than 30 students come to participate and work on topics related to the work of Ineergias. Although they are indicators of the performance agreement, the most relevant thing is that today they give life to an area of ​​development. There are students who are doing their professional practices, their degree reports and that allows us to predict that at least from this group, there will be several scientists who are going to contribute in this or another part of the country in these areas of development," he indicated.

The Multidisciplinary Research Group in Energy and Environmental Management, GIMEGA, belongs to the Multidisciplinary Research Institute in Science and Technology of the University of La Serena and Ineergias (PMI 1401), and develops research activities focused, mainly, on studying materials that can capture solar radiation for two reasons: (i) to generate electricity and (ii) decontaminate water.

“They have managed to form a school of students from different careers, they have managed, from their fields, to do research on the topics developed by the Ineergias project, which is very good for us as an institution. The issues of energy and environment are very important for the country and the University, here we are promoting it and we believe that it is an excellent way for students to have continuity within their areas of work," said the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies. , Eduardo Notte

Managers, researchers Dr. Adriana Mera and Dr. Carlos Rodríguez, students and guests participated in the presentation of the memory work.

The registration platform is now open and those interested in participating can register at www.egresados.userena.cl.

On Thursday, December 13, the ball will begin to roll at the Andrés Bello Campus of the University of La Serena, when the fourth version of the “ULS Titled Cup” begins, a soccer championship that will bring together schools made up of undergraduate students. and postgraduate, graduates and graduates of the university.

The purpose of this activity is to maintain the bond with the students and graduates of the ULS, as well as for the participants to reaffirm their contact networks, around sports and healthy competition.

After the successful experiences of previous years, the Alumni Follow-up Office, belonging to the Institutional Studies and Planning Directorate, organizer of the event, once again calls on all foot ball lovers to meet on the grass courts of the institution.

The tournament year after year captures great interest in the community of ULS students and graduates, who are preparing to face the competition in the best way, valuing the instance not only from the sporting point of view, since it is an opportunity to meet up with former colleagues and acquaintances. of the institution.

Teams that are interested in being present at this event can enter www.egresados.userena.cl and register their participation or call the event organizer, Viviana Vásquez, at 51-2-204436 or write to her email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

opening day

On December 13, at 18:30 p.m., the draw will be held to form groups A and B, which will give life to the first stage of the tournament. Immediately after that, the first four duels will be played. The matches will have 2 halves of 25 minutes each, with 5 minutes of rest.

All details are available on the website http://egresados.userena.cl/.

The exhibition on parasites of human beings and their pets linked students, teachers and researchers with the school and general community of the Coquimbo Region.

A large number of people participated for three days in the “Educational Exhibition in Sciences: Parasites of human beings and their pets”, an activity organized and carried out jointly by the Pedagogy in Biology and Natural Sciences, Nursing and Journalism careers of the University of La Serena. On the occasion, around 30 students, professors and researchers collaborated, who attended the public in the tent set up for the exhibition and were in charge of the different talks that were held around the same topic.

For its main manager, academic Jorge Cepeda, this instance sought to “educate people a little, school children and adults on the subject of the human-pet relationship, especially since there are many poorly cared for dogs, and the possibility of "The fact that there are parasites in these dogs is quite big." Likewise, the teacher added that "the idea is, on the one hand, to help promote the accreditation process of these three careers, and on the other, to educate people, starting from small children to the elderly, in relation to good treatment and good care, mainly of dogs and cats, due to the possibility that if they are neglected they transmit some diseases and parasites, and there are some of those parasites that are quite dangerous for human beings.”

The fair included three components: a tent presentation with collection material, specimens kept in formalin; a second part in the laboratory, on the risks of eating raw fish and shellfish; and the third, a series of talks given by professors from the University, nurses, professionals from the Department of Biology and the Ministry of Health who are working, for example, on the topics of Hydatidosis.

For the Seremi de Salud, Alejandro García, this activity “is very important because it is bringing research and knowledge to the community in general and specifically schools (…). It is important that education leaves universities and works together with the community, and especially on these types of issues that are very important, such as parasites, how they are transmitted, how they are prevented, what the control mechanisms are. that can be done, because there is a lack of knowledge.”

Seniors, students, and the general community came to the Andrés Bello Campus to be part of this educational exhibition, among them, the differentiated Science elective of the third year of Saint Mary El Milagro School. “We found it interesting to come, since in any science investigation we try to give them the perspective of the three sciences, so although we did an activity for them, they then have another complementary activity where they can direct it to Chemistry, Physics or Science. Biology. The idea is to make an articulation of the three sciences,” said one of the teachers in charge of the group.

Finally, the organizers and the attendees were very satisfied and amazed by the knowledge delivered and acquired in these three days of continuous exhibition, which also had the positive integration of these three university courses.

This activity corresponds to one of the awarded Environmental Linkage projects promoted by the Academic Vice-Rector's Office and DIVEULS.

Source: DIVEULS press

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