Unilasallista Corporacion Universitaria
 

Research Group Applied to the Environment – GAMA

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Head: Alvaro Arango Ruiz 
Contact: alarango@lasallistadocentes.edu.co 
Objective:  
Lead, manage, execute research, consulting and advisory activities, aimed at generating new knowledge that provides solutions for technological development and innovation in the basic and applied areas of environmental engineering, emphasizing the efficient use of resources. natural resources, in the diagnosis and control of pollution and in the design, construction and implementation of new technologies for the sustainable use of biodiversity and the development of the environment. 
Investigation: 

• Environmental Pollution: diagnose and control environmental pollution as a strategy for efficient monitoring of the natural balance.

• Environmental Management: study and analyse the dynamics of ecosystems to assess their environmental status and that of their resources, directing actions that allow achieving sustainable development, guiding the processes associated with the preservation, conservation, defence, protection and restoration of the environment. 

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Research Group on Agricultural Production, Development and Transformation (GIPDTA)

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Head: Carlos Arturo David Ruales 
Contact: cadavid@lasallistadocentes.edu.co 
Objective:  
To generate projects that are aimed at solving problems in the agricultural and agro-industrial sector of the country. 
Investigation: 

• Agricultural biotechnology.

• Agricultural production and industrialization. 

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Seedbed of Research in Management and Environment (SIGMA)

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Coordinator: Gloria Correa Restrepo 
Contact: glocorrea@lasallistadocentes.edu.co 
Objectives: 

• Promote formative research in the environmental area. 

• Encourage the participation of students within the research seedbed. 

• Strengthen the research processes in the different lines that are established. 

• Promote the development of extracurricular activities to promote research. 

• Create spaces for interaction between students and teachers that contribute to interdisciplinary work and academic improvement. 

• Establish an exchange of knowledge and experiences with other research hotbeds, both at the regional and national levels. 

• Contribute to the solution of community problems and improve their quality of life. 

Investigation: 

• Water research line 

• Soil research line (includes solid waste management) 

• Air research line 

• Research line in environmental management 

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Agricultural Production Research Seedbed (SIPRA)

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Coordinator: Marilza Piedad Ruiz 
Promotes research activities of a formative nature of students in the area and seeks to develop research capacity through the formulation, presentation and execution of research projects. Their basic activities are the review of topics in the agricultural area, training in bibliographic searches, consultations in databases, training for the preparation and presentation of research projects, use of laboratory facilities for experimentation, development and product innovation. 
It is made up of students and professors of the Program, who throughout these years have developed different investigations in areas of agricultural production, biotechnology, genetics, reproduction, with which several recognitions have been obtained in research conferences at the regional and national level. 
Objectives: 

• Promote formative research in the area of Zootechnics, in the lines of aquaculture, nutrition and food, silvopastoral systems, industrial microbiology and livestock and agro-industrial transformation processes, linked to generating projects and graduate jobs at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

• Encourage the participation of students within the research seedbed and in other academic spaces (academic sessions, INCIETEC, Red Colsi, among others). 

• Strengthen the research processes in the different lines that are established. 

• Promote the development of extracurricular activities to promote formative and applied research. 

• Create spaces for interaction between students and teachers that contribute to interdisciplinary work and academic improvement. 

• Establish exchange of knowledge and experiences with other research hotbeds, both at the regional and national levels. 

• Contribute to the solution of community problems and improve their quality of life.

Investigation: 

• Livestock Biotechnology 
  It aims to handle biological systems and living organisms or their metabolites to create, modify or produce specific results; not only investigative but also industrial, in order to improve the quality of life, allowing the human being to make better use of the biological resources involved in their vital and productive activities, favoring the coverage of their nutritional, medical, investigative requirements, environmental and recreational. 

• Agricultural Production and Industrialization 
  Its purpose is to understand the biological processes of the individuals with whom we work and establish reference standards to improve processes, likewise, diagnose the current situation of the agricultural sector and the transforming companies involved and generate a commitment to continuous improvement of the observed processes , not only from science but also from humanities, achieving innovation and added value to all products and by-products that are derived from this sector, so that in this way it is possible to recognize and consolidate as a productive chain in which each link have a clear and defined role to achieve stakeholder benefit and sustainability,coupled with interdisciplinary and inter-institutional work that allow greater efficiency and strengths when it comes to obtaining results for the benefit of this productive sector.

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Research in Diverse Dialogues (GRINDIS)

 
Coordinator: Lucía Mercedes De la Torre Urán 
Contact: ldelatorre@unilasallista.edu.co 
The Research Group in Diverse Dialogues - GRINDIS fosters spaces for academic debate regarding social needs, as a way to promote research with academic and social relevance, which strengthens the capacity of the Institution in a comprehensive manner. 
Lines of investigation: 

• Diversity and Society: with which it is sought to enrich political, economic and social analyses from the contribution of the difference in unity between human beings. 

• Philosophy and Science: which addresses the centrality of the human being in social, political, economic and cultural development 

• Hermeneutics, Religious Fact and Contemporary Problems: to analyze the expressions around the spiritual and transcendent dimension of the human being from the individual, sociocultural and intercultural expression, with the symbols present in language and narrative. Likewise, those problematic situations in the environment that affect social development: globalization, migration, forced displacement, neoliberalism, consumer society, liquid society, new poverty, alternative musical expressions, among other contemporary problems.