Computed tomography (CT) is currently one of the most widely used techniques to diagnose various diseases for its excellent performance and speed in obtaining images or cross-sections of bones, blood vessels, and soft tissues of the body. It has also become one of the radiological procedures that involves the highest exposure to radiation, equivalent to six months to five years of unprotected exposure to the sun.
Vitamin D is a human hormone known mainly for its relevance in bone formation, as it is involved in calcium and phosphorus absorption at intestinal level. However, in recent decades it has been discovered that it also plays a valuable role in strengthening the immune system and in brain development, in addition to having an anti-inflammatory role.
In 2024 Carolina Manquian Villalobos became a doctor in Engineering Sciences, specializing in Materials Engineering Sciences at the University of Santiago de Chile. In her doctoral thesis she managed to adapt a type of metal-organic crystal with properties like those of a super capacitor, which could transform the way we store and generate energy, for example, for automobiles. This work led to an article published in the nanoscience magazine Nanomateriales.
“Blue Spaces for Recoleta”, is the name of the research carried out by Dr. Lucio Cañete Arratia (project director), from the Faculty of Technology; Enrique San Juan Urrutia, Victor Herrera Gonzalez, both from the Faculty of Engineering; and Rodrigo Vidal Rojas, current rector and professor of the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment. In this initiative, the academics of the Campus configured alternatives of free access water bodies (pools, fountains, tanks, etc.) present in the district of Recoleta.