Guanajuato, Gto., June 8, 2017.- With a participation of 572 students, it will be held the 23th edition of the Scientific Research Summers, a program of the University of Guanajuato (UG) which has consolidated as a promoter of the taste for science and knowledge among the student community.

UG's Rector, Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, welcomed the participants and shared with them some reflections regarding the value of research. Knowledge –he said—is acquired day by day, so I exhort all the young students to never lose curiosity, learn from the pairs, from what others do, and, learn from failure.

With a 23-year history, this research summers are already a university tradition, they have contributed to awaken scientific callings, and prove the talent and commitment of the community of professors and students.

The program known as "UG Summers" eases to students to approach scientific research by developing a 5-week stay with researchers in the own UG, with whom they collaborate in a real project. Afterwards, they can expose the results of their work in an Institutional Congress.

The Director of Support to Research and Postgraduate (DAIP), Dr. Mauro Napsuciale Mendivil, mentioned that this edition grew 26% in enrollment, and included a new modality: liaison. Also, he highlighted the bigger participation of students, which constitute the 61% of the registered students.

In this edition, UG Summers have five modalities: Scientific Research Summer for students enrolled in bachelor degrees in UG and the state of Tabasco, which this year reaches its 23th edition; the Summer for Excellence Students; the Summer for UG's High School Students, the Summer of Scientific Research "Ingenious Ideas", and the Liaison Summer.

In these categories participate 71 foreign college students, from seven countries: Colombia, Guatemala Venezuela, United States, Taiwan, Japan and France; 18 young students from the state of Tabasco; and 19 from other entities: Chihuahua, Chiapas, Mexico City, Baja California Sur, Michoacán, Veracruz, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and Coahuila.

On behalf of the professors, spoke Dr. Rebeca Monroy Torres, outstanding researcher ascribed to the Department of Nutrition and Medicine of Campus Leon, who told the students that her experience in a Research Summer left her "a passion for research with no return, nor pause."

Luck doesn't exist, chance exists, said to the student community, hence he exhorted them to prepare, especially because in a competitive ambience such as science, enthusiasm is not enough, it requires effort, dedication and passion, she assured.

In her intervention, the student Marian Arelí Taboada Padilla, of the Division of Natural and Exact Sciences of Campus Guanajuato invited her classmates to prove they are agents of change and seize the opportunities UG offers to develop comprehensively.

At the end of the inaugural ceremony, the Delegate of the Mexican Institute of the Industrial Property (IMPI), Lic. Alejandro Raúl Salas Domínguez, gave the conference "Importance of the intellectual property in the higher education institutions and research centers".

To the event attended unipersonal authorities and representatives of collegiate organs of the University of Guanajuato, participating students and members of the university community.

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