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The Boricua Science Community Responds to COVID-19

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We are facing a pandemic of the new Sar-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19. The situation has disrupted everyone's lives in unprecedented ways. We understand that there is much concern and uncertainty, and that the situation is constantly and rapidly evolving. That is why the CienciaPR Team has activated its #CienciaBoricua community to educate, inform, and promote the well-being of our people. As always, in this emergency, we are ready to put science in service of Puerto Rico.

Organizers of CienciaPR’s Seeds of Success featured by world's largest resource library celebrating women in STEM

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Doctors Greetchen Díaz Muñoz, Roselin Rosario Meléndez and Minerva Cordero Braña, and engineer Beatris Méndez Gandica, organizers of the Semillas de Triunfo (Seeds of Success): IF/THEN Edition program, are included in the world's largest library of resources celberating women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). These women are four of the 125 IF/THEN ambassadors selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies as outstanding women in STEM and role models.

Remdesivir es autorizado únicamente como tratamiento de emergencia para pacientes hospitalizados

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13 MAYO, 2020 

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El remdesivir, un medicamento originalmente desarrollado para combatir el contagio de Ébola, fue autorizado para administrarse únicamente como tratamiento de emergencia en pacientes graves hospitalizados con COVID-19, en tanto continúa la investigación sobre su eficacia en general contra el virus SARS-CoV-2.

Standing against racial injustice

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Dear Ciencia Puerto Rico Family,

I write this message to you with regret, dismay and anger. The recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor — and too many more before them — have once again exposed the urgent need to work towards inclusion, fairness, justice, and respect for all.

The Ciencia Puerto Rico network owes its strength and dynamism to its diversity and the inclusion of all those who identify with our mission. We express our sincere empathy and solidarity with those who suffer and fight injustices, especially in these moments with members of our community who identify as Black, Afrolatinxs or Afrodescendants.

Scientific organizations ask Governor to prioritize purchase of molecular tests for COVID-19

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Scientific community underscores the need for "a coherent strategy, informed by the best available scientific evidence" and offers 9 concrete recommendations to achieve it.

COSACO Coalicion de Ciencia Y Metodología Ante El Covid-19i

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COSACO: Sabiduría Agregada

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Dr. Jaime Claudio -Fundador/Catedrático Medicina de Familia UPR

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En medio del torbellino y del “pico” de la epidemia, del distanciamiento social tan doliente y cercano y de las ansiedades que padecemos a corazón abierto, un junte de boricuas de buena cepa y capa de ciencia echa raíces y retoña para combatir el CoronaVirus con sensibilidad y sabiduría.

Catedrático del RUM de la Universidad dePuerto Rico recibe dos premiaciones por sus aportaciones en la Ingeniería Civil y Transportación

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El doctor Benjamín Colucci Ríos, catedrático del Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Agrimensura (INCI), del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), recibió la más alta distinción por parte de la Asociación Americana de Ingenieros Civiles (ASCE). Además, se convirtió en el primer hispano en obtener el Premio Internacional Wilbur S. Smith.

Se trata del ascenso al rango máximo de fellow de la ASCE, concedida por sus propios colegas del campo de la Ingeniería Civil. La gala Opal, en la que se le concedió el honor, tuvo lugar en Washington, D.C., previo a los acontecimientos actuales, donde se rindió tributo a los ingenieros civiles que fueron exaltados.

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