The UASLP’s PMPCA celebrated 20 years of training professionals capable of solving current environmental problems, and as part of its celebrations, various activities were carried out such as think tables, poster exhibition, alumni and employers table, bicycle cinema, writing and publishing workshop. Texts, Entrepreneurship Workshop, as well as Unirodada.
Activity in the lecture hall of the Graduate Unit brought together the prominent founding professors of the program who were at the forefront of management for the creation of graduate studies; The event was led by the UASLP Minister for Research and Graduate Studies, Dr. Amaury de Jesús Pozos Guillén, who recognized the collective work of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences.
He thanked the Environmental Agenda, the community, and the administrators of colleges and institutes that had granted the facilities to run this postgraduate course through the use of facilities, libraries, laboratories and equipment that allowed it to operate during this time.
In her message to attendees, Dr. Paula Elizabeth Diaz-Flores, coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, emphasized that 20 years have passed since a challenging and satisfying history, which began in the 1990s, at the initiative of Dr. Pedro Medellin Milan and teacher Lucia Nieto Carrafeo with other eminent professors.
The goal was to create a postgraduate course with a curriculum that was not very traditional at the time, which had to be created from new high-quality academic models, but within the framework of a sustainable development plan.
The initial challenge on this journey involved different academic profiles to reach a meeting point that would contribute to an approach around problems involving the environment and society.
Dr. Paula Elizabeth Diaz Flores stated that by overcoming this challenge, through the first interdisciplinary exercise at the time, an innovative postgraduate course was created whose objective was and remains to train professionals in the field of sustainability.
“Initially this interdisciplinary program was foreseen by the faculties of engineering, medicine and chemical sciences; in 2022, the faculties of social sciences and humanities and the faculty of agricultural engineering and veterinary medicine are to be merged.”
After the integration of professors, colleges, and institutes, the areas of specialization moved from three to five: integrated environmental health, prevention and control, renewable natural resources, environmental management, and environmental assessment. There are three current programs bearing the category of “Unification before the National Postgraduate System”.
This postgraduate program has trained more than 552 professionals, of whom 111 correspond to a doctoral degree, 245 to a national master’s degree, and 196 to a dual master’s degree.
Another noteworthy point is the professional and cultural diversity of the graduate course, with about 30 percent of the total number of graduates coming from different countries: Germany, the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Argentina and Italy. Among other things.
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