ASM/NSF UFRI AWARD TO INBRE FELLOW Filipa Godoy-Vitorino

Dr. Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, an Associate Professor at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus and PI of the Microbial Ecology and Genomics Lab, was awarded the Undergraduate Faculty Research Initiative (UFRI) Fellowship supported by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Leaders Inspiring Networks and Knowledge (LINK) program.

Filipa was recognized at the National level, as a model of excellence in STEM research, and a stellar example of an active researcher committed to student learning in undergraduate biology.

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Adail A. Rivera Nieves is a graduate student at the UPR Mayagüez that received a fellowship by The Hydrographic Society of America for his thesis: Implementation of an Unstructured Three-Dimensional Circulation Model for San Juan Bay Estuary. Adail works under the supervision of Dr. Miguel Canals Silinder.

This article was published in Diálogo Digital on October 6th, 2015: http://dialogoupr.com/noticia/upr/estudiante-del-rum-recibe-galardon-en-hidrografia/ 

The Medical Sciences campus at the University of Puerto Rico received a grant from the NIH to established the Puerto Rico-IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (PR-INBRE) program.

This article was published in Diálogo Digital on September 23, 2015. To read the full article visit: http://dialogoupr.com/noticia/upr/impulso-de-20-millones-a-la-upr-para-investigaciones-biomedicas/

The organization bestowed university scholarships of $2,500 each