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Student of UPR-Rio Piedras investigares the impact of coffee farming on erosion

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The effect of coffee farming on erosion and its impact on marine life is the research problem that Yasiel A. Figueroa Sánchez is studying as he completes his masters degree in Interdisciplinary Envrionmental Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus. 

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Agreement between private company, academia and the commmunity to protect the largest wetland in the metropolitan area

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Puma Energy, Corredor del Yaguazo y UPR-Río Piedras unite in collaborative agreement. 

Cataño, P.R., March 29, 2016- Puma Energy Caribe, the Corredor del Yaguazo, Inc. and the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPR-RP) signed a collaborative agreement to contribute to the conservation of Ciénagas Las Cucharillas and the community development of Juana Matos.

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Researchers from UPR at Río Piedras provide data to international meteorology net

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*UPR-Río Piedras has the only Aerosol station in the Caribbean and Southern Hemisphere.  

For more than a decade, a group of students from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, has been distinguished for generating information researching the impact of particles in the environment. This work is done at the Aereosol Station located at Las Cabezas de San Juan Light Hourse in Fajardo.

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CITec from the University of Puerto Rico receives EBSCO prize

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The Center for Information and Technology (CITec) at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus wins EBSCO 2015 award for the creation of a digital tool that wil ease the search for information in the areas of Natural Sciences.

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Professor from UPR Río Piedras: First Hispanic Woman to become director at large for ACS

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"Women are able to hold many roles and to succeed in each one of them", affirmed Dr. Ingrid Montes, Chemistry Professor at UPR-RP. Dr. Montes became the first hispanic woman to be elected to the Board of General Directors of the American Chemical Society (ACS). 

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Dr. Jorge Colón will receive highest honor by the Puerto Rico Chemists Association

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University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, Department of Chemistry

Rebecca Soler, President of the Puerto Rico Chemists Association (Colegio de Químicos de Puerto Rico), has announced that Professor Jorge L. Colón has been named the recipient of the highest honor conferred by the Colegio, the Dr. Osvaldo Ramírez Torres Award 2014-2015. The award is given to chemists that have stood out for their continuous and significant contributions to Science, the community, and the Colegio.

Lucen los estudiantes de computación de la Isla

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Studentsfrom the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras placed third in the International Collegiate Programming Contest organized by the Association for Computing Machinery.

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Nobel Laurate in Physics shared the amazing history of an Universe

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Adam Riess, Nobel Laurate in Physics (2011), visited the University of Puerto Rico to give a lecture on The amazing story of an accelerated Universe. Around 500 people attended the event sponsored by COFI (Cosmology and Physics Institute of the Americas).

 

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NASA studies the human impact on the coasts of Puerto Rico

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The University of Puerto Rico will study the human impact on the coasts of Puerto Rico under the project Human Impact to Costal Ecosystems in Puerto Rico (HICE-PR), sponsored by $ 1.4 million grant under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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Green area at the UPR- Río Piedras threatened by concrete

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There is an open area in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, where a lot of biodiversity has been growing for decades. Different projects has been proposed to developed the area. Dr. Rafael Joglar is advocating for establishing the area as an ecological research center. The original version of this article is in Spanish. You can read it by clicking on ESPAÑOL on the top right of your screen. You can also contact us at contact@cienciapr.org.

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