Research
The university has a long tradition in research that can be traced to its origins. It is home to an excellence research center, 6 research centers, 3 research institutes, and 276 groups, of which 122 are recognized by COLCIENCIAS. In 2007 276 research projects were carried out, with an investment totaling $8.84 billion COP provided by fifteen national and international entities.
The Excellence Center for Novel Materials (Spanish: Centro de Excelencia en Nuevos Materiales, CENM) is part of a high-priority national effort, supported primarily by COLCIENCIAS and implemented by 19 recognized multidisciplinary research groups in 10 universities across the nation. Additionally, it gets international support from four world-renowned institutions: The Nanotechnology center from Northwestern University, the Thin Film and Nanoscience Group from the University of California at San Diego, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, and the Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research on Materials from the University of Chile. Research work at CENM is organized around 4 Interdisciplinary Research Themes (IRT), which are: Advanced Coatings, Composite Materials, Nano-magnetism, and Solid State Devices, Sensors, and Mesoscopic Systems. The center acquired in 2008 an Atomic force microscope, the first in South America, with a cost of $620 million COP.
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