The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) is a public university founded in 1974 on innovation.
With a strong link to our social environment, our flexibility has helped us maintain our place in the vanguard of higher education.
Our motto and logo synthesize the idea that UAM is a flexible, open, changing University, and that from solid roots, we strive for the future.
UAM participates in institutional research programs and proposals with multidisciplinary projects at the national and international level to contribute to Mexico's growth and development.
Nanotechnology, Energy, Sustainable Development, Materials, Technology, Economics, Education, Rural and Urban Development, Anthropology, History and Culture, Administration, Sociology, Politics, Communication, International Relations, Health, Nutrition, Architecture, Design, amongst others.
UAM has more than 100 laboratories, workshops, and pilot plants for research and lecturing:
- Nuclear and Magnetic Resonance Laboratory in a liquid state
- Microscopy Electronics Laboratory
- BioSystems Laboratory
- Geometrics Laboratory
- Nanotechnology and Molecular Engineering Laboratory
- Research Center in Imagenology and Medical Instrumentation
- Biology and Aquiculture Research Center in Cuemanco
- Neurodevelopment Research Laboratory
- Biology Systems Laboratory
- Animal Production and Experimental Unit
- Communication Workshops
- Design Workshops
- Network and Software Manufacture Laboratory
UAM is involved in a diverse range of projects aimed at solving specific issues and attending to the needs of society's most vulnerable sectors.
Two examples would be stomatology clinics and legal services for a community sector that otherwise would not be able to afford such services.
Other social link examples include the Sierra Nevada Project aimed at restructuring traditional production practices into sustainable resource operations that project beyond the in mediate into the long-term.
Another example would be research and training in Human Resource Development in Chiapas.
Also, the Metropolitan Studies Project addresses problems faced by large cities around the globe.