Austral University of Chile

The Austral University of Chile (Universidad Austral de Chile, UACh) is a Chilean research university based in Valdivia, with campuses in Puerto Montt and Coyhaique, and is one of the country's eight original traditional universities.智利奥斯特拉尔大学（Universidad Austral de Chile，简称 UACh）是智利一所以瓦尔迪维亚为主要基地的研究型大学，在蒙特港与科伊艾克设有校区，也是该国最早的八所传统大学之一。

Founded by decree on 7 September 1954 and inaugurated on 12 March 1955, it operates as a nonprofit self-owned corporation under private law while receiving significant state funding.该校于 1954 年 9 月 7 日依法令创办，1955 年 3 月 12 日举行落成典礼，以私立非营利自治法人的身份运营，同时获得大量国家资助。

With about 18,000 students, 66 degree programmes and more than 53,000 graduates, it sits in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and holds six-year accreditation in all its components.该校约有 18,000 名学生、66 个学位项目与逾 53,000 名毕业生，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，各组成部分均通过六年期认证。

History

• In 1942 the Sociedad de Amigos del Arte was formed in Valdivia, and alongside promoting culture, one of its central aims was to establish a university in the city.1942 年，瓦尔迪维亚成立了「艺术之友协会」，除推广文化外，其核心目标之一便是在当地创办一所大学。
• In the 1950s the senator for Valdivia, Carlos Acharán Pérez de Arce, presented the idea of founding a university to the national congress and succeeded in consolidating the project.1950 年代，瓦尔迪维亚选出的参议员卡洛斯·阿查兰·佩雷斯·德·阿尔塞向国会提出创办大学的构想，并成功推动了该项目。
• At a meeting on 16 February 1954, supporters of the plan created a directory and proclaimed Eduardo Morales Miranda as its president.1954 年 2 月 16 日的一次会议上，计划支持者组建了筹办理事会，并推举爱德华多·莫拉莱斯·米兰达为主席。
• The university was founded by decree on 7 September 1954, its initial financing depending on donations from private individuals, including some industrial businessmen.该校于 1954 年 9 月 7 日依法令创办，初期经费依赖私人捐赠，其中包括若干实业界人士。
• On 12 March 1955 the university was inaugurated by President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, with the rectors of the University of Chile and the State Technical University among the guests.1955 年 3 月 12 日，总统卡洛斯·伊瓦涅斯·德尔坎波主持了学校的落成典礼，智利大学与国家技术大学的校长亦到场。
• Ambassadors of Venezuela and Argentina and representatives of the Netherlands, Germany and the United States attended the inauguration, marking the university's early international links.委内瑞拉与阿根廷的大使，以及荷兰、德国与美国的代表出席了落成典礼，标志着学校早期的国际联系。
• The first degree programmes taught at the university were fine arts, agronomy, forestry engineering and veterinary medicine, each of which had its own faculty from the start.该校最早开设的学位课程为美术、农学、森林工程与兽医学，每个专业自始便设有自己的学院。
• On 3 June 1968 UACh was granted autonomy from the University of Chile when Law 16.848 was enacted, allowing it to decide its own plans and study programmes.1968 年 6 月 3 日，随第 16.848 号法律颁布，UACh 从智利大学获得自治，从而可以自行决定培养方案与课程。
• During the military regime's restructuring of higher education in the 1980s, UACh incorporated the Instituto Profesional de Valdivia, the regional successor of the State Technical University.在 1980 年代军政府重组高等教育期间，UACh 合并了瓦尔迪维亚职业学院，即国家技术大学在当地的继承机构。
• By absorbing that institute, which corresponds to today's Campus Miraflores, UACh prevented the creation of an offshoot university and began granting bachelor's degrees in engineering.通过并入该学院，即今日的米拉弗洛雷斯校区，UACh 阻止了衍生大学的出现，并开始授予工程类学士学位。
• The university's Cine Club, founded in 1963, later gave rise to the Valdivia International Film Festival and remains a cultural landmark of the Isla Teja campus.该校的电影俱乐部创立于 1963 年，后来孕育了瓦尔迪维亚国际电影节，至今仍是伊斯拉特哈校区的文化地标。
• In 1993 the university held the Valdivia International Film Festival for the first time, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of its Cine Club.1993 年，学校为庆祝其 1963 年创立的电影俱乐部成立三十周年，首次举办瓦尔迪维亚国际电影节。
• With the arrival of the Centro de Estudios Científicos in Valdivia in 2000, the city was further established as a research centre for biophysics, glaciology and climate change.2000 年，科学研究中学（CECS）进驻瓦尔迪维亚，进一步把这座城市确立为生物物理、冰川学与气候变化的研究重镇。
• In 2007 the university and CECS became involved in a controversy over regional research funding, in which a deputy accused CECS director Claudio Bunster of using his political influence to secure resources.2007 年，该校与科学研究中学卷入地区科研经费争议，一名众议员指责中研所所长克劳迪奥·邦斯特尔利用政治影响力获取资源。
• On 3 December 2007 a fire destroyed the Emilio Pugín building of the Faculty of Sciences on the Isla Teja campus, where chemicals and scientific equipment could not be saved.2007 年 12 月 3 日，一场大火烧毁了伊斯拉特哈校区理学院的埃米利奥·普金楼，其中的化学品与科学设备未能抢救出来。
• The fire forced the evacuation of 10,000 people from Isla Teja and caused damage estimated at 5,000 million Chilean pesos, about 10 million US dollars, of which 22 per cent was not covered by insurance.大火迫使伊斯拉特哈的 10,000 人撤离，损失估计达 50 亿智利比索，约合 1,000 万美元，其中 22% 未获保险赔付。
• On 13 May 2008 the student federation of UACh went on strike, judging the administration's response to its demands too loose, and the strike and occupation ended in late June.2008 年 5 月 13 日，UACh 学生联合会因认为校方对诉求的答复过于含糊而发动罢课，罢课与占领于当年 6 月底结束。
• In April 2010 the competitive bidding to rebuild the Emilio Pugín building began, and Rector Víctor Cubillos won the 2010 election with 229 votes, his second term ending in June 2014.2010 年 4 月，埃米利奥·普金楼的重建招标启动；同年校长维克托·库比略斯以 229 票赢得选举，其第二个任期于 2014 年 6 月结束。
• In 2021 Hans Richter Becerra was elected rector for the period 2021-2025, taking 294 votes in the second round against 271 for Maite Castro, and he was succeeded by Egon Montecinos.2021 年，汉斯·里希特·贝塞雷拉当选 2021 至 2025 年任期校长，在第二轮选举中以 294 票击败获 271 票的玛伊特·卡斯特罗，其后由埃贡·蒙特西诺斯接任。
• The university marked its 70th anniversary in 2024, and in September 2026 it celebrated its 72nd at the Teatro Regional Cervantes with an academic procession and the Gaudeamus Igitur.该校于 2024 年迎来七十周年校庆，2026 年 9 月又在瓦尔迪维亚地区卡夫察剧院庆祝七十二周年，校庆以教师方阵与《大学生之歌》开场。
• The university is today one of the eight traditional universities, legally a nonprofit self-owned corporation under private law but significantly financed by the state.学校今天是智利八所传统大学之一，法律上为私立非营利自治法人，但获得大量国家经费支持。

Academics

• The rector stated in September 2026 that the university has about 18,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, 46 master's programmes, 15 doctorates and 66 degree programmes integrated into national life.校长在 2026 年 9 月表示，该校约有 18,000 名本硕学生、46 个硕士项目、15 个博士点，以及 66 个已融入国家生活的学位专业。
• Its 2025 enrolment figures record 17,439 undergraduates, of whom 13,661 were at Valdivia, together with 1,061 postgraduate students, and it offers 71 undergraduate programmes, 48 at Valdivia, 17 in Puerto Montt and 6 at Campus Patagonia in Coyhaique.该校 2025 年的在校生数据为本科 17,439 人，其中瓦尔迪维亚本部 13,661 人，另有研究生 1,061 人；学校开设 71 个本科项目，其中瓦尔迪维亚 48 个、蒙特港 17 个、科伊艾克的巴塔哥尼亚校区 6 个。
• Its 69 active postgraduate programmes comprise 13 doctorates, 40 master's degrees and 16 medical specialities. and Research is conducted across faculties in the sciences, engineering, medicine, veterinary science, forestry, the humanities and the arts.其 69 个在办研究生项目包括 13 个博士、40 个硕士与 16 个医学专科。该校科研覆盖理学、工程、医学、兽医学、林学、人文学科与艺术等各学院。;}-;}-
• Archaeology is a noted field, where the university's scientist Tom Dillehay led the excavations at Monte Verde, one of the earliest archaeological sites in the Americas.考古学是其知名领域，该校学者汤姆·迪勒海主持了蒙特维德遗址的发掘，那是美洲最早的考古遗址之一。
• Another site investigated by its researchers is Chan-Chan, which gives its name to the Archaic Chan-Chan Complex identified in southern Chile.该校研究者考察的另一处遗址是昌昌遗址，智利南部被辨认出的「古代昌昌文化」即以此命名。
• Scientists at the university's Dendrochronology Laboratory set up the longest tree-ring chronology in the Southern Hemisphere, reaching back 5,666 years.该校树木年代学实验室的学者建立了南半球最长的树木年轮序列，可上溯 5,666 年。
• Researchers there reconstructed temperatures for the last 3,622 years from Fitzroya tree rings and used a beech network spanning Talca to Navarino Island to study recent warming.研究人员利用智利柏树轮重建了过去 3,622 年的气温，并以从塔尔卡到纳瓦里诺岛的山毛榉网络研究近期的变暖趋势。
• The Veterinary School and the Medical School anchor its agricultural and health teaching, while UACh is a main centre of Mapudungun linguistic studies, associated with Professor María Catrileo Chiguailaf, who received a provincial prize for the conservation of national monuments in 2009.兽医学院与医学院支撑其农业与健康教学，UACh 同时是马普切语语言学研究的重镇，与 2009 年获省级纪念物保护奖的玛丽亚·卡特里莱奥·奇瓜伊拉夫教授关系密切。
• In palaeontology, its scientists helped excavate the Quaternary fossil site of Pilauco Bajo in Osorno, where remains of a Gomphotherium species were found, and its virology researchers studied the transmission of Hantavirus between rodents and humans, finding Hanta antigens in the salivary glands of deceased patients in 2005.在古生物学方面，该校学者参与发掘了奥索尔诺的皮劳科巴霍第四纪化石遗址，并发现了嵌齿象类遗骸；其病毒学研究者研究汉坦病毒在鼠类与人之间的传播，并于 2005 年在死者唾液腺中发现汉坦病毒抗原。
• Work at its Laboratory of Virology contributed to bringing initial mortality from pulmonary Hantavirus in Los Ríos down by 60 per cent, below the national average of 37 per cent.该校病毒学实验室的工作促成河流大区肺型汉坦病的初始死亡率下降 60%，低于全国 37% 的平均水平。
• The Centro Tecnológico de la Leche, the university's milk technology centre, has been credited with raising dairy productivity in the Los Ríos Region above that of the neighbouring Los Lagos Region.该校的乳品技术中心被认为把河流大区的乳业生产率提升到高于邻近的湖大区。
• The university publishes scientific journals including Bosque, Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria and Estudios Filológicos, which are indexed in ISI's bibliographic database.学校出版《Bosque》《兽医学文献》与《文献学研究》等学术期刊，均被 ISI 文献数据库收录。
• Bosque, devoted to forestry science, first appeared in 1975, was issued twice a year from 1985 and three times a year from 2003, and entered the ISI database in 2009.专注林学的《Bosque》于 1975 年创刊，1985 年起改为每年两期，2003 年起每年三期，2009 年进入 ISI 数据库。
• In literature, communication science and linguistics the university has published Documentos Lingüísticos y Literarios since 1977, one of the few journals carrying native Mapudungun literature.在文学、传播学与语言学方面，学校自 1977 年起出版《语言与文学文献》，是少数刊载马普切语本土文学的期刊之一。
• Research indexed by OpenAlex records 22,145 works and 747,370 citations for the university, reflecting a strong scientific output for a regional institution.OpenAlex 收录该校 22,145 篇研究成果与 747,370 次引用，对一所地方院校而言科研产出可观。

Campus

• UACh's main Isla Teja Campus occupies the whole north-west of Isla Teja in Valdivia and houses the university's administration, the Cine Club, the botanical garden and most faculties.UACh 的主校区伊斯拉特哈校区占据瓦尔迪维亚伊斯拉特哈岛的整个西北部，设有学校管理层、电影俱乐部、植物园与大部分学院。
• The botanical garden is both a recreational area and a place of study, with around 950 plant species growing in its 12 hectares, most of them from the Valdivian temperate rain forest.植物园既是休闲场所也是研习之地，12 公顷范围内生长着约 950 种植物，其中多数来自瓦尔迪维亚温带雨林。
• The Cau-Cau River crosses the northern part of that garden and supports a section of wetland species within its twelve hectares.考考河流经该园北部，在其十二公顷范围内滋养了一部分湿地植物。
• The Engineering School operates at Campus Miraflores, along the Valdivia River south of the city's Plaza de Armas, alongside the university library工程学院在米拉弗洛雷斯校区办学，该校区沿瓦尔迪维亚河、位于城市武器广场以南，学校图书馆亦设于此；
• A third campus exists in Puerto Montt, where business administration, speech and language pathology and aquaculture are studied.学校在蒙特港设有第三个校区，教授工商管理、言语与语言病理学以及水产养殖。
• A much smaller campus known as Campus Patagonia is located in Coyhaique, serving Chile's far south.一处规模小得多的巴塔哥尼亚校区位于科伊艾克，服务智利极南地区。
• The university holds further properties across the Los Ríos and Los Lagos regions, including the Parque Arboretum on northern Isla Teja, the Calfuco field station near Niebla and the forests of San Pablo de Tregua in the Andean foothills.学校在河流大区与湖大区还拥有其他地产，包括伊斯拉特哈岛北部的树木园、涅布拉附近的海滨野外站，以及安第斯山麓圣巴勃罗-德特雷瓜的森林。
• The Isla Teja Campus was rebuilt in part after the 2007 fire, when the Emilio Pugín building was reconstructed from 2010 onwards.2007 年大火之后，伊斯拉特哈校区得到部分重建，埃米利奥·普金楼自 2010 年起重建。
• Located on a river island, the university has a distinctive waterfront setting among Chilean universities, with bridges linking its campuses to the city centre, and its 72nd anniversary procession in September 2026 went to the Teatro Regional Cervantes.学校地处一座河心岛，在智利各大学中拥有独特的水岸环境，各校区经桥梁与市中心相连；2026 年 9 月的七十二周年校庆方阵游行前往地区卡夫察剧院。

Reputation

• The Austral University of Chile is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval in the global table, and in the 1601-1800 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，智利奥斯特拉尔大学位列 1001-1200 区间，这是全球榜单中的一个并列区间；在 2027 年《泰晤士高等教育》世界大学排名中位列 1601-1800 区间。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 list it was ranked 1,375th worldwide, while it did not enter the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列全球第 1,375 位；而该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• In the CWUR World University Rankings 2025 it ranked 1,348th worldwide, sixth in Chile and 53rd in Latin America and the Caribbean, with an overall score of 68.8.在 2025 年 CWUR 世界大学排名中，该校位列全球第 1,348 位、智利第 6、拉丁美洲与加勒比地区第 53，综合得分 68.8。
• In the QS Latin America and the Caribbean ranking published in October 2024 it stood 38th, and in the corresponding South America table also 38th, ranking eighth in Chile.在 2024 年 10 月发布的 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区排名中，该校列第 38 位，在相应的南美榜单中同样列第 38 位，居智利第 8。
• In the Times Higher Education Latin America ranking of November 2024 it was placed 58th, and in the CWTS Leiden Ranking of October 2025 it stood 1,571st.在 2024 年 11 月的《泰晤士高等教育》拉丁美洲排名中该校列第 58 位，在 2025 年 10 月的 CWTS 莱顿排名中列全球第 1,571 位。
• In subject tables its veterinary sciences ranked 51st in the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects published in November 2024, its best subject placing, with agricultural sciences 101st and earth sciences 401st.在 2024 年 11 月发布的软科全球学科排名中，其兽医学科列第 51 位，是该校最佳的学科名次，农业科学列第 101 位、地球科学列第 401 位。
• In the 2011 Quacquarelli Symonds ranking of Latin American universities UACh was 30th in the region, 5th in Chile and second among Chilean universities outside Santiago.在 2011 年 Quacquarelli Symonds 拉美大学排名中，UACh 位列地区第 30、智利第 5，并在圣地亚哥以外的智利大学中位居第二。
• In El Mercurio's 2006 ranking of the best universities in Chile, UACh received the highest score for teaching quality of any Chilean university and ranked third overall, second only to the University of Chile in research quality.在《信使报》2006 年智利最佳大学排名中，UACh 的教学质量得分居全国大学之首，总排名第三，研究质量仅次于智利大学。
• That 2006 placing made UACh the highest ranked university in Chile outside the capital, a position the AméricaEconomía ranking of 2009 confirmed with 7th place overall and 4th outside Santiago.这一 2006 年的名次使 UACh 成为首都以外排名最高的智利大学，2009 年《美洲经济》排名印证了这一点，该校总排名第 7、圣地亚哥以外第 4。
• In the 2009 AméricaEconomía undergraduate ranking its nursing programme placed third in Chile, with medicine and agronomy fourth, law seventh and business administration tenth.在 2009 年《美洲经济》本科排名中，其护理专业位列智利第 3，医学与农学并列第 4，法律第 7，工商管理第 10。
• In 2006 its medical students achieved the second highest marks in Chile in the National Medicine Exam, after the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.2006 年，其医学学生在智利全国医学考试中取得第二高分，仅次于智利天主教大学。
• It holds six-year accreditation in all its components from Chile's national quality-assurance body, and OpenAlex records 22,145 works and 747,370 citations for the university.该校全部组成部分均通过智利国家质量保障机构为期六年的认证；OpenAlex 收录该校 22,145 篇研究成果与 747,370 次引用。

Student life

• The university's motto is Libertas Capitur, Latin for liberty is seized, a phrase it has carried since its founding in the mid-twentieth century.该校的校训为拉丁文「Libertas Capitur」，意为「自由是被夺取的」，这一校训自二十世纪中叶建校以来一直沿用。
• Its traditions are closely tied to Valdivia and to the Isla Teja Campus, whose botanical garden and riverside setting shape student life, and whose cinema club organises regular screenings.其传统与瓦尔迪维亚及伊斯拉特哈校区紧密相连，校区的植物园与河畔环境塑造了学生生活，校园电影俱乐部则定期组织放映。
• The Valdivia International Film Festival, first held in 1993 and grown out of that cinema club, has become one of Chile's most important film festivals.1993 年首次举办、由该电影俱乐部发展而来的瓦尔迪维亚国际电影节，已成为智利最重要的电影节之一。
• The 72nd anniversary ceremony in September 2026 opened with the university choir performing Gaudeamus Igitur and the UACh anthem, conducted by alumni member Maximiliano Larraín Flores. and At that ceremony the university presented its 25 years medal to serving staff and recognised academics promoted to full professor, the highest rank in its career structure.2026 年 9 月的七十二周年校庆以大学合唱团演奏《大学生之歌》与 UACh 校歌开场，指挥为校友马克西米利亚诺·拉兰·弗洛雷斯。在该次校庆上，学校向连续服务者颁发二十五年勋章，并表彰晋升为正教授的学者，那是其职级体系中的最高等级。;}-;}-
• The university also marked the anniversary with a video based on the book Nace una universidad, published in 1977 by the journalist Lidia Baltra about the founding process.学校还以 1977 年记者莉迪娅·巴尔特拉所著《一所大学的诞生》一书为基础制作纪念影片，讲述学校的创办历程。
• The student federation is active in university governance, as shown by the 2008 strike and occupation over the administration's handling of student demands.学生联合会在学校治理中表现活跃，2008 年针对校方处理学生诉求方式的罢课与占领即为明证。
• Students protested at the Aula Magna of the Isla Teja campus during the 2026 academic year inauguration, objecting to graduate scholarship and funding policies, and the rector opened dialogue with them.2026 学年开学典礼期间，学生在伊斯拉特哈校区大礼堂抗议研究生奖学金与经费政策，校长随后与其展开对话。
• With campuses in Valdivia, Puerto Montt and Coyhaique, student life reflects the geography of southern Chile, from temperate rain forest to Patagonia.学校在瓦尔迪维亚、蒙特港与科伊艾克设有校区，学生生活因而映射出智利南部从温带雨林到巴塔哥尼亚的地理风貌。
• Its museum network, run by the museology department, holds the Contemporary Art Museum, the Philippi Museum on nineteenth-century exploration and the Maurice van de Maele Museum, and it opens to the public alongside the botanical garden.由博物馆学系运营的博物馆网络拥有当代艺术博物馆、讲述十九世纪开拓与定殖的菲利皮博物馆与莫里斯·范德马勒博物馆，连同植物园一并向公众开放；

Notable people

• Eduardo Morales Miranda was proclaimed president of the directory that brought the university into being at the 1954 meeting of its supporters. and Carlos Acharán Pérez de Arce, senator for Valdivia, presented the plan to found a university to the national congress in the 1950s and consolidated the project.爱德华多·莫拉莱斯·米兰达在 1954 年支持者会议上被推举为筹办理事会主席，推动了学校的诞生。瓦尔迪维亚参议员卡洛斯·阿查兰·佩雷斯·德·阿尔塞在 1950 年代向国会提出创办大学的方案，并促成了该项目。;}-;}-
• Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, president of Chile, inaugurated the university on 12 March 1955.智利总统卡洛斯·伊瓦涅斯·德尔坎波于 1955 年 3 月 12 日主持了学校的落成典礼。
• Víctor Cubillos served as rector from 2010, winning the 2010 election with 229 votes, and his second term ended in June 2014.维克托·库比略斯自 2010 年起任校长，以 229 票赢得 2010 年选举，其第二个任期于 2014 年 6 月结束。
• Hans Richter Becerra was elected rector for 2021-2025 with 294 votes in a second round, and he later joined the jury of the National Prize for History.汉斯·里希特·贝塞雷拉在第二轮选举中以 294 票当选 2021 至 2025 年任期校长，其后出任国家历史奖评审委员。
• Egon Montecinos is the university's current rector, and he was appointed to the jury of the National Prize for History in 2026.埃贡·蒙特西诺斯是该校现任校长，2026 年获任国家历史奖评审委员。
• Marcela Villenas chairs the university's board of directors, which governs the institution alongside the rector.. Tom Dillehay, an archaeologist at the university, led the excavations of Monte Verde, one of the earliest known human settlements in the Americas.马塞拉·维耶纳斯担任该校理事会主席，与校长共同治理学校。该校考古学家汤姆·迪勒海主持了蒙特维德遗址的发掘，那是美洲已知最早的人类聚落之一。;}-;}-
• Mario Pino, a geoarchaeologist at the university, took part in the excavation of the Pilauco Bajo fossil site in Osorno.该校地质考古学家马里奥·皮诺参与了奥索尔诺皮劳科巴霍化石遗址的发掘。
• María Catrileo Chiguailaf, a professor known for Mapudungun linguistics, received a provincial prize for the conservation of national monuments in 2009 and is a prominent Mapuche scholar.以马普切语语言学闻名的玛丽亚·卡特里莱奥·奇瓜伊拉夫教授于 2009 年获省级纪念物保护奖，是知名的马普切学者。
• Rosa Devés Alessandri, a former rector of the University of Chile, gave the anniversary lecture on living with difference at the 72nd anniversary in 2026.智利大学前校长罗莎·德韦斯·亚历桑德里在 2026 年七十二周年校庆上发表了关于在差异中共处的演讲。
• Lidia Baltra, a journalist, wrote the 1977 book Nace una universidad, which records the antecedents and process behind the founding of the university.记者莉迪娅·巴尔特拉撰写了 1977 年的《一所大学的诞生》，记录了学校创办的背景与过程。
• Gabriel Ascencio, a deputy, took part in the public controversy over regional research funding that involved the university and the Centro de Estudios Científicos in 2007.. Claudio Bunster, director of the Centro de Estudios Científicos, was the object of that controversy over the allocation of regional research funds in 2007.众议员加布里埃尔·阿森西奥参与了 2007 年涉及该校与科学研究中学的地区科研经费争议。科学研究中学所长克劳迪奥·邦斯特尔正是 2007 年地区科研经费分配争议的对象。;}-;}-
• Maximiliano Larraín Flores, an alumnus of the university, directs its choir, which performed at the 72nd anniversary ceremony in 2026.该校校友马克西米利亚诺·拉兰·弗洛雷斯指挥学校合唱团，该团在 2026 年七十二周年校庆上演出。
• Paulina Rytkönen, a scholar, has credited the university's milk technology centre with raising dairy productivity in the Los Ríos Region.学者保利娜·吕特科宁认为，该校的乳品技术中心提升了河流大区的乳业生产率。
• Daniela Carvajal, a spokesperson for the philosophy and humanities faculty's coordinating group, spoke for students over graduate scholarships and academic funding in 2026.2026 年，就研究生奖学金与学术经费问题，哲学与人类学院协调组的发言人达妮埃拉·卡瓦哈尔代表学生发声。