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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris during a meeting with the Indigenous Women Platform at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala June 7, 2021 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Credit: Planetpix/Alamy Live News On June 7, the University of the Valley of Guatemala's Central Campus was honored to host a visit from US Vice President Kamala Harris during her first international trip. On campus, Harris met with dignitaries, including Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. Harris also met with women engineering students in UVG’s central campus makerspace, which was partially funded by USAID funds through USFUVG. NBC Nightly news also conducted and broadcast their [...]

The first-ever Guatemalan satellite, “Quetzal 1,” a 1U-size CubeSat, rocketed from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station on March 6, 2020 in 2020, and was deployed from the ISS on April 28, 2020. Developed through the collaborative efforts of undergraduates from UVG’s mechanical engineering, mechatronics, electronics, and computer science departments, and supported by UVG faculty, its Research Institute, and international advisors, the miniature satellite’s mission is to collect real-time data on the cyanobacteria — toxic algae —  that threatens Guatemala’s treasured Lake Atitlán. Quetzal 1 will be an integral part of the ongoing lake-water monitoring and evaluation conducted through UVG’s [...]