Ceremony for the 2022 UCM Alumni Awards
The gardens of the Rectorate have hosted the ceremony for the 2022 UCM Alumni Awards, in its six categories, as well as the appointment of new illustrious and honorary Alumni , who on this occasion have been proposed by the Faculties of Psychology and Veterinary Medicine . The event was attended by the rector Joaquín […]
The Mountain Chamber Nutrition Professor warns of the danger of relaxing food safety in order to avoid waste.
Healthy and sustainable. “It is the magical binomial of food today”, comments Montaña Cámara, professor of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the UCM, and director these days of the conference “The challenge of sustainability in the food chain. The practical case of wine”, at the UCM Summer Courses in San Lorenzo de […]
University of Complutense, third Spanish university with the highest number of Erasmus+ mobilities awarded in 2022
With more than one thousand nine hundred Erasmus+ mobilities awarded, the Complutense University is the third university with the highest volume of students and staff who will carry out international stays in the 2022/23 academic year, enriching their training and personal growth through this experience in another country. We are referring to outgoing students, since […]
La Complutense, headquarters of the VI Congress of Teaching Innovation in Chemical Engineering
From July 11 to 13, the VI International Conference on Teaching Innovation in Chemical Engineering (CIDIQ), a biannual meeting organized by the Conference of Directors and Deans of Chemical Engineering (CODDIQ) , was held at the Faculty of Physical Sciences. which aims to promote the exchange of teaching experiences in the field of Chemical Engineering […]
Students also have the words
After three days of conferences and debates, the UCM Veterinary Professor Alicia Caro Vadillo can do nothing but thank the thirteen students who have attended the course she has directed entitled “Clinical aspects of zoonosis heart and lung diseases today. “Thank you, thank you very much, for these three days,” she points out to them. […]
The Complutense doctoral student Carmen Martínez Alonso receives one of the seven Fulbright scholarships for the next academic year

Carmen Martínez Alonso, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the UCM, is one of the seven Spanish students who will enjoy the prestigious Fulbright scholarships, financed by the governments of the United States and Spain, next year. The student from Complutense will enjoy a six-month research stay at the SunCat Center of […]
Lamarr de Vocations, the UCM camp to promote university vocations

For the second consecutive year, the Complutense University, in collaboration with the Tomillo Foundation, the Dadoris Foundation and social services of the Madrid City Council, has held the Lamarr Vocations Camp. Renamed after the patronymic of the famous actress and inventor of wi-fi, Hedy Lamarr, the camp brings together around thirty high school students, including […]
The Equality Unit values the gender perspective in justice
“It is one of the most difficult things that we can promote”, affirms the director of the Equality Unit of the UCM, Magdalena Suárez, at the inauguration of the course “The value of judging and deciding with a gender perspective”, which she directs on July 11 and 12 in the Summer Courses of the Complutense […]
Three days to teach how to live from art
Until a few weeks ago, Elena Blanch and Margarita González were the Dean and Vice Dean of Research, respectively, of the UCM Faculty of Fine Arts. This week they are in San Lorenzo de El Escorial trying to cover, as they themselves admit, a gap in the curricula of artistic careers: what the current art […]
The solar flower of the Botanical Garden is inaugurated, a symbol of an increasingly sustainable university
For a few months, when entering the Complutense Botanical Garden, the first thing the visitor came across was a strange and enormous flower, with the beauty of a revolving sculpture, but in reality it is more, much more. This July 7, the rector Joaquín Goyache and Jorge Gómez Sanz, vice-rector for Technology and Sustainability, have […]