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School of Natural Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico recognized academic excellence

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The School of Natural Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras (UPRRP) celebrated the academic excellence event by recognizing several students on February 6th, 2015.

This article was originally published in Diálogo Digital.

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Schedule for Cambiowebiar Series 2015

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Cambiowebinars is a project that broadcasts live biology seminars to remote audiences in universities in Puerto Rico and individuals via livestream. The speakers  from the University of Cambridge in UK  volunteer their time to disseminate their science. The topics are diverse but  focus on recent discoveries or technology.

Each seminar has a designated contact in Puerto Rico that organizes the audience in a variety of local universities. In the past we have been able to reach audiences in UPRM and RCM-UPR. The seminars are open to the public but crafted specially to researchers, graduate and undergraduate students.

The seminar series for this semester includes:

 

UPR-Humacao shines at annual biomedical research conference

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Two students from the Biology Deparment at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao Campus were awarded for their reearch presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABCRMS) during November in San Antonio, Texas.

Giovani Deliz, junior in the General biology program and Raiza Reyes, junior under a Microbiology major were recognized along another 11 students among 1700 participant students. ABRCMS is one of the biggest research conference for underepresented minority students and is funded by the American Society of Microbiology under an NIH grant.

 

To read the entire blog, visit the Spanish version of this site. This article was published in Dialogo Digital.

Reflections on my PhDversary

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It’s been exactly two years since I completed my PhD on Tuesday, January 15th, 2013.

Since then some things have changed, some have not. I swapped the bench for outreach; the microscope for Twitter; pipettes for YouTube. Although I no longer do research in a lab, my love for discovery and learning remains the same.

Today instead of thinking about experiments with worms and microscopes I think about how to make science matter to people. Instead of generating knowledge, I share it. I have a different role in the process of science.

Students from UPR- Rio Piedras shine in national competition

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Students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (UPR-RP), shone bright again in the recent edition of the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) by obtaining 8 awards in various categories. This is the largest professional conference for students in the field of biomedical and behavioral science that takes place in the United States (US) and this year it took place in San Antonio, Texas. 

Some 57 students from the on campus undergraduate research programs "Minority Access to Research Career (MARC)" and "Research Inititative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE)" participated in the event and presented 31 scientific works as posters and oral presentations.

UPR Río Piedras alum receives medal of honor from NASA

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2014 was a year of triumphs for Puerto Rican Julie Ann Rivera Pérez, who received a medal of honor from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was selected to participate in a very competitive leadership program in the agency.

Rivera Perez earned the Medal of Equal Employment from NASA for promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities for the Hispanic community through her initiatives as president of the Hispanic Advisory Committee for Employees (HACE) for the past two years. In addition, leadership and job performance earned her a coveted seat in the NASA First Program, whose purpose is to identify and train the future leaders of the agency.

Young Borinqueña wins poster competition at the annual American Society for Cell Biology meeting

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Congratulations to Yaliz Loperena Álvarez from the Central University of the Caribbean for winning third place on the poster competition sponsored by the Minority Affairs Committee at the American Society for Cell Biology Meeting held in Philadelphia from December 6th-10th, 2014.

Yaliz is a doctoral student in Dr. Michelle Martínez Montemayor’s laboratory at the UCC and she studies the mechanism by which the Reishi mushroom attacks cancer cells in inflammatory breast cancer.

From CienciaPR, congratulations Yaliz!

Melody: Future Biochemist Collects the Harvest of her Seeds of Success

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We all know about the difficult economic situation that our country is going through, but there are always opportunities for those who give their best. The young lady Melody Rivera Hernández, from Vega Alta, is in her way to complete her university carrier in the biochemistry area with all expenses covered. She is the first puertorrican student, born and raised in the Island to receive the prestigious scholarship “Torch Scholars” to complete her bachelor degree in the Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

 

Puerto Rico Social at SfN 2014

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Around 60 Puerto Rican scientists or people with scientific ties with Puerto Rico attended the Puerto Rico social during this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting (SfN).  The social was held in Washington D.C., on Sunday, November 16.  During the social, hebbian links were formed and fortified within the neuroscientist community that researches in the Puerto Rican archipelago with other scientists that research in other parts of the world. 

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