From 2007 to 2009, faculty members completed 520 research programs in different areas. Currently, there are over 300 on-going research projects in the following areas:

Arts, Architecture and Communication

• Urban Studies
• Cultural Consumption
• Urban Systems and Habitats in the Pacific Region
• Film Adaptation
• Biographical Journalism

Physical Sciences

• Bird communities: aquatic and terrestrial Birds
• Ant control
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Littoral bioerosion
• Environmental pollution
• The ecology of estuaries and mangroves in the Colombian Pacific zone
• Thin particles with industrial application
• Novel materials
• Physics
• Entomology

Business Administration

• Organizational cultures
• Socio-cultural logic and dynamics of contemporary corporate organizations
• Management in the 21st century
• Modernization of the state
• Assessment of public policies
• Decentralization and planning
• Structural reform and banking in Latin America
• Entrepreneurial development and international trade

Health Sciences

• Tropical diseases
• Genetics
• First aid
• Periodontal disease
• Nursing
• Studies of the brain
• Nutrition
• Epidemiology
• Population cancer registry
• Human rehabilitation
  

Humanities

• Language and culture
• Foreign languages
• Cognitive schemes and reading comprehension
• Human demography
• Gender, women and society
• Human development
• Regional history
• Democracy and school life
• Ethics and human rights
• Philosophy and science

Social and Economic Sciences

• Collective action and social conflict
• Human capital, information and labor markets
• Regional socioeconomic condition
• Regional financial system
• Environmental policy
• Local governments and social participation
• Microeconomics and economic policy

Engineering

• Electronics, communication and information
• Energy: fuels, hydroelectric and thermal production Water
• Environment
• Infrastructures
• Industrial processes
• Logistics
• Biotechnology and agricultural food industrial processes
• New materials
• Science and food technology
  

Psychology

• Development of children’s scientific rationality
• Humor and representation
• Family and culture
• The construction of knowledge in specific cultural contexts
• Integral growth of youth

Education and Pedagogy

• Didactics of mathematics
• Mathematics education and scholastic problems
• History of education
• History of mathematics education
• Educational policy and management of new technologies
• Scientific knowledge and common knowledge
• Systematizing of meaningful experiences
• Physical education