Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) is a public university founded on 1974 on the idea of 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 synthesizes 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 with the aim of contributing 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 liquid state
• Microscopy Electronics Laboratory
• Bio Systems 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 the needs of society's most vulnerable sectors.

Two examples would be stomatology clinics and legal services for a sector of the community 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 a research and training in Human Resource Development in Chiapas.

Also the Metropolitan Studies Project that addresses problems faced by large cities around the globe.