Thought and Society

Understanding why gaps persist even among students with high academic talent is the focus of the research led by Andrés Barrios, an academic at the School of Economics and Business Administration and director of the Human Development Lab, which was recently awarded a Fondecyt Regular 2026 grant.

In a global context of rapid growth of Pentecostalism, especially in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, a study seeks to unveil its growing influence in the political arena.

The permanent use of the smartphone during conversations or face-to-face interactions has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon in everyday life, which, despite being more socially accepted every day, is having noticeable effects on the quality of interpersonal bonds.

The growing presence of symptoms of alterations in the mental health of university students is a concern that has spread around the world and in whose research a Uandes academic has actively participated.

Universidad de los Andes participated in the preparation of the book edited by the Inter-University Center for Development (CINDA), which addresses the current state of doctorates in Chile and proposes approaches to align them with the national industry.

Bringing together areas such as innovation, marketing or even fashion is one of the purposes of a recent collaborative project by a Uandes academic.

How do employment subsidies affect female labor participation and how can they be corrected in order to have better public policies?

The way in which the media narrated the social outburst defined public understanding of one of the most complex social and political episodes in the country's recent history, according to an investigation on the journalistic coverage of these events.

The selected initiatives address issues related to public, private, labor and criminal law, with an impact on the functioning of institutions, the protection of workers' rights, investment and economic development.

The Universidad de los Andes signed a collaboration agreement with the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society of the University of Notre Dame (USA), with the purpose of promoting data science oriented to the common good.