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Boricua students receive the Graduate Research Fellowship Program grant

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We would like to congratulate all the students who received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This fellowship recognizes and supports students who have excelled in science, mathematics, technology or engineering (also known as STEM disciplines) and other fields of knowledge. Scholarship recipients receive a stipend of $34,000 per year to pursue graduate studies. The application is highly competitive and extensive, requiring several letters of recommendation, a personal essay and a research proposal with an intellectual merit section and a societal impact section. 

Hospital Association honors the work of women in the Health Sector in Puerto Rico

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Photo caption: The photo shows the group of healthcare professionals who received the "Women in Healthcare 2022" Award given annually by the Puerto Rico Hospital Association.  Seated from left to right: Dr. Aracelis Nieves (Medical Director, Manatí Medical Center); Dr. Maruja Santiago Vélez (Director, Centro Imágenes Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Pila) and Dr. Michelle M. Martínez Montemayor (Associate Professor, Universidad Central del Caribe). Jaime Plá Cortés (Executive President of the Puerto Rico Hospital Association), Representative Sol Higgins (President of the House of Representatives Health Committee); Dr. Ilia Zayas Toro (Chief Medical Officer at the CDT of the San Pablo Medical Group); Dr. Elba Arroyo Camuñas (Chief Medical Officer of the San Pablo Medical Group); Dr.

UPR Aguadilla students win best poster award at Louisiana Symposium

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UPR Aguadilla students win best poster award at Louisiana Symposium

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March 28, 2022 (Aguadilla, P.R.) - Students from the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla (UPRAg), led by Dr. Nancy R. Cardona Cordero, were awarded the Best Poster Award "Lead Poising Among Puerto Ricans: An Educational Intervention" last month at the Louisiana State University Dellinger Symposium. 

The project consisted of dynamically disseminating information to stakeholders about how lead poisoning affects daily life and testing the effectiveness of the Science Take-Out Kit, "Prevention of Lead Poisoning" as an educational tool among this Hispanic population. 

CienciaPR urges people to keep up with masking and prevention to mitigate the next COVID-19 surge

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In light of the flexibilization of COVID-19 mitigation measures in Puerto Rico, the NGO and scientific collective Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR, www.cienciapr.org) is calling on the public not to lower their guard and be prepared to respond to a possible surge in cases. This comes following a recent increase in the positivity rate in the country and ongoing surges in Europe and Asia caused by the Omicron subvariant BA.2.

Graduate of the Department of Physics and Electronics of the UPRH hired by NASA 

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March 15, 2022 

Graduate of the Department of Physics and Electronics of the UPRH hired by NASA 

(Humacao, P.R.) - Ms. Shamir Maldonado Rivera, a graduate of the Department of Physics and Electronics of the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (UPRH) was hired by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to work in the area of electronic engineering, focused on research and development of aerospace technology.  

Women's Week kicks off with recognition of 10 outstanding women in the public school system

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The photo shows from left to right (seated) Jenny Cosme Figueroa, Corporate Executive; Eng. Ivette García Dunlap, Electrical Engineer and Betsy Velázquez Rodríguez, Corporate Consultant.  Standing left to right: Reinaldo Camps Gerena of the founding group of CROEM 1968; Laida Pla; Dr. Lourdes E. Soto de Laurido, Acting Dean of the School of Health Professions at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico; Ing. Olga D. González Sanabria, Director of Engineering at NASA Glenn Research Center; Dr. Fabiola Cruz López, Epidemiologist; Sonia Martínez de Vargas, sports leader; and Roberto Rivera Ponce, leader of CROEM graduate students.

Activities to celebrate CROEM's 54th Anniversary Announced

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Activities to celebrate CROEM's 54th Anniversary Announced

Students who obtained perfect scores in mathematics on the College Board and one who was nominated for the Presidential Medal will be recognized.

Mayagüez - The Association of Graduate Students of the Mayagüez Residential Educational Opportunity Center, better known by its acronym CROEM, announced the activities scheduled to celebrate CROEM Week and CROEMITA Day, declared by proclamation of the Puerto Rico Government's Department of State. 

CIENCIA PUERTO RICO BRINGS WOMEN SCIENTISTS TO THE PUERTO RICAN SCHOOLS

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The nonprofit organization distributed a total of 250 posters and other educational materials about Puerto Rican and Latina women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to be displayed in schools and to expose young people to culturally relevant role models.

Op-Ed: How Puerto Ricans fought COVID: Together

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Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and many have yet to learn that the way out of the global emergency is not through individualism and nationalism, but through solidarity.

More than 3 billion people around the world remain unvaccinated, in part because of vaccine hoarding by wealthy nations like the U.S. Beyond the coronavirus’ biology, the main reason COVID-19 continues to rage is such failures of solidarity – in government, public policy, messaging, and civic society.

CienciaPR’s receives funding from Medtronic Foundation to support girl leaders in STEM

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Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) is one of 13 organizations serving underrepresented and underserved K-12 students in Minnesota, Northern California and Puerto Rico that will receive two-years of support from Medtronic Foundation to promote equity and inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

Specifically, Medtronic Foundation’s grant to CienciaPR will support Semillas de Triunfo (Seeds of Success) a program that promotes STEM interests and community leadership among middle and high school girls in Puerto Rico.

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