Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in Hubei, the region where Wuhan City is located, in late January, China mobilized 346 medical teams from 29 provinces in the country. A total of 40,000 support doctors and nurses, who worked closely with local medical personnel. In one week, the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus …
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Defining the general guidelines of the Chile-Sweden Forum, for the years 2020 and 2021, was the objective of the meeting of the steering committee of the Chile-Sweden Academic Collaboration Platform (ACCESS), held on March 9th and 10th at the University of Magallanes (UMAG). This meeting, which seeks to promote and strengthen joint research between 14 …
The next steps of the Chile Sweden Forum are taken in Punta Arenas Read More »
“Artificial Intelligence: Data, Ethics and Privacy” was the first “must-see” of the Future Congress at UC, given by David Carroll, promoter of the lawsuit against Cambridge Analytica about violation of privacy to social network users, which inspired the documentary ” The Great Hack “(Netflix). Carroll emphasized the interest of Chileans in discussing issues such as …
How was the abandonment of girls and boys in 15th century Barcelona is the subject of the doctoral thesis of the Institute of History professor, Ximena Illanes, and which gave rise to the book published by Ediciones UC, which addresses three moments: the scene of abandonment, the care of infants in the hands of wet …
“It is a pleasure for me to receive a great friend from France and to pass her on an acknowledgment by way of gratitude on behalf of my country,” Ambassador Roland Dubertrand began at the award ceremony to María Elena Boisier, Director of the Research Affairs Office at the Catholic University, where she was awarded …
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An academic delegation from the UC arrived in Spain to participate in the COP25 Madrid-Chile Climate Summit, despite the change of country due to the social outbreak that occurred in our nation. UC has had an active participation early in preparations of the event, with professors who have been part of the scientific tables, and …
In order to contribute to the creation of successful business strategies in the region, the Universidad Católica de Chile, the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico) and the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) launched the first specialized massive, open and online program, “Doing Business in Latin America”. A program made up of …
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What do Galapagos and Las Cruces have in common? In both places there are research stations, specifically, the Galápagos Science Center and the Coastal Marine Research Station – ECIM. The first is in a privileged ecosystem due to its biodiversity, declared a World Heritage Site of Humanity; while the second is located in an intensive …
Technologies capable of decoding the information we have in our brain and literally reading our thoughts, is the scenario raised by the Spanish neurobiologist Rafael Yuste. Although they seem like situations taken from the science fiction series “Black mirror”, it is an increasingly closer panorama, in fact companies like Google are already moving in that …
Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste proposes protecting the rights of the mind Read More »
About eighty Chilean academics are expected to meet in Uppsala and Stockholm between December 2 and 5, at the Chile-Sweden Academic Forum – ACCESS. To fine-tune the details, a delegation of representatives from Chilean universities traveled to Sweden to discuss the next steps in this valuable instance of academic collaboration. On behalf of the Catholic …
