Dr. Rodolfo Figueroa, the director of the Center for Medical Physics and Engineering of the Universidad de la Frontera, was distinguished as VEBLEO-Fellow, a recognition awarded by international scientific peers for his contribution to innovation.
The Universidad de La Frontera starts this year with 36 new FONDECYT (“Chilean National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development”) Projects (14 Regular, 10 Initiation in Research, and 12 Post-Doctoral Projects).
Academic staff of doctorate in natural resource sciences got four regular fondecyt projects approved
The projects of Jacquelinne Acuña, Carolina Merino, Cledir Santos and Francisco Matus, who are part of the agronomy group, will each have a duration of four years.
Two papers of Dr. Pablo Riquelme, an academic of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) were cited in Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021, where the arguments are given that allowed Dr. Giorgio Parisi of the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) to be distinguished with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021.
Teams of future engineers of both universities are working on different projects to find business-oriented solutions.
This Ranking analyses the performance of the universities in Chile. UFRO is ranked fifth overall, and fourth in the category “Innovation and Technology Transfer”.
- Representatives of Ufro and the U.S. Embassy in Chile met to strengthen collaborative ties
- First 300,000 doses of CanSino vaccine arrived in Chile after clinical trials led by Universidad de La Frontera
- International Scientific Community gets together at Workshop organized by Felacc and Ufro
- Students Establish IEEE Women in Engineering group at Ufro
- Opinion of The Rector Dr. Eduardo Hebel Weiss: University Students in times of covid-19
- Felacc and ufro brought experts in microbiology and related fields together at international workshop
