U. de La Serena shares knowledge with the community on National Science Day

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The institution opened the doors of the Andrés Bello Campus to receive a large number of children, young people and adults, who were able to tour its scientific laboratories and get to know the solar car and the mobile planetarium up close. 

With great enthusiasm and desire to learn, children, young people and adults visited the University of La Serena this Sunday to participate in the National Day of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation. The initiative of the State Universities (Research Network) was carried out for the second consecutive year, becoming an opportunity for the university to open its doors and show the community the importance of science, its study and contribution to society. .

science day4The day began with a talk on climate change and water resources, given by Dr. Pablo Álvarez, academic at the ULS and Director of the Laboratory for Prospecting, Monitoring and Modeling of Agricultural and Environmental Resources, PROMMRA, and the institutional greeting by the Vice Chancellor of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Eduardo Notte, who stressed the need to strengthen science at the regional level and research that seeks the development of the entire community.

Those who visited the ULS were able to tour the Botany, Physiozoology and Microscopy laboratories (Department of Biology), where they learned more about plant and animal biological diversity, as well as the use of technology to promote learning in biology.

The families present also enjoyed various chemical experiments and separation, distillation, extraction and chromatography techniques in the Department's laboratories. of Chemistry, and learned in detail about “The route of superfoods” presented in the Food Engineering offices.

Also attracting attention was “The Van de Graaff generator” (Department of Physics and Astronomy), which uses a moving belt to accumulate large amounts of electrical charge inside a spherical metal shell.

science day2Also part of this day were the teaching materials for learning mathematics (Department of Mathematics); the astrotourism virtual reality app and the online courses of the “Univrso Project” of Campus Digital; the Intikallpa solar car of the Department. of Mechanical Engineering, a prototype whose manufacturing uses the best sustainable technology available worldwide; and the functions of the ULS - CONICYT Mobile Planetarium, which combines astronomical knowledge with dissemination, bringing the mysteries of the universe and its most surprising aspects to the community.

The visitors were very happy to be able to get to know the University of La Serena and learn what the different academics, professionals and students do around science.

“This experience has been very entertaining, I really liked it. I came with my granddaughter and daughter, and I found that opening these instances to the community gives the option of knowing how everything works. One learns something new every day and today we have done it in a didactic way”, assured Patricia Gálvez, a visitor who made the tour on Science Day.

science day4Another of the people who came to the ULS to participate in the activity was the postgraduate student Maibys Jaime, who noted: “I brought my daughter with the intention that she become familiar with what the world of science is, learn and encourage the motivation in this topic. I thought it was super appropriate that the University carried out this activity, above all that it has been a very educational day and generates great bonding”.

The celebration of National Science Day was organized by the State Universities of Chile (Research Network) and the ULS, through the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies, and the Science and Technology Dissemination and Dissemination Team, with the support of various macro-units and units, who hope to continue promoting the importance of science in the area and the country.

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom

 

 

 

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