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

Universidad de los Andes registered 21 selected projects out of a total of 65 applications, reaching an award rate of 32.3%, a result consistent with the historical performance of the national Fondecyt system.