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EPA Honors Puerto Rico Environmental Champions

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(New York, N.Y. – April 24, 2015) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has honored five individuals and organizations from across Puerto Rico with Environmental Champion Awards for their achievements in protecting public health and the environment. EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined by Donovan Richards, Chair of the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection, to present the awards to this year’s recipients at a ceremony at the EPA’s offices in Manhattan. An awards ceremony in San Juan will be held at a later date.

Students from University Gardens won NASA challenge

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The specialized school in Math and Sciences University Gardens won the High School division of the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, celebrated this weekend at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center en Huntsville, in Alabama.

The students in the team were Genna Dávila Montero, José Estruche Santos, Yancarlos Maysonet Hernández, Jean A. Pérez Verdejo, Steven Márquez and Rolando Fernández. Over 80 teams from 18 States participated in the challenge.

This article was published in El Nuevo Día on Sunday, April 19, 2015. To read the full article visit the Spanish version of this blog. 

Students from Alpha Zeta Chapter at UPR in Mayagüez received several awards at Regional Convention in Biology

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The Zeta Alpha student chapter at the University or Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (RUM) received several awards at the 62 Regional Convention of the Honor National Society in Biology.

Winners:

Karina N. Ruiz Esteves and Fabio L. Tarazona Tubens, first place in oral presentations

Rocío del M. Saavedra Peña second place in oral presentations

Melanie A. Torres Santana- 1st place in Poster presentations

Lorein Moya Rodríguez- 2nd place in poster presentations

Alberic P. De León Laguna, 3rd place in Poster presentations

The Alpha Zeta student chapter won the Dr. Boyd B. Palmer Award for 2rd year in a row.

UPR Mayagüez won six first places in Engineering Competition in US

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The student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (RUM) recived 23 awards in 13 events in regionals competitions at the University of Tennessee, in Chatanooga. This is the first time that the ASCE chapter at RUM recieved awards in each category and the first time to win that many awards.

They won in every category

 

Winners of Mathcounts local competition in Puerto Rico

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This press release was written by the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Author: Margie Alvarez

San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 25, 2015 – MATHCOUNTS® competition announced this year winners.

Winners schools by teams:

-          1st Colegio Católico Notre Dame

-          2th Antilles Middle School

-          3rd Tasis – Dorado

-          4th Colegio San Ignacio

Students winners at individual level:

- 1st Miguel Tulla Colegio Católico Notre Dame

- 2nd Milton Santiago, Antilles Middle School

- 3rd Nico Prokauer, Antilles Middle School

- 4th Ángel Gómez, Colegio Católico Notre Dame

 

*These students will represent Puerto Rico in the National Competition in Boston during May. 

Planes designed by Puerto Rican Engineering Students stand out in Competition

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This article was published in Diálogo Digital on Tuesday, April 7th, 2015. To see the article in Diálogo Digital visit: http://dialogoupr.com/noticia/upr/aviones-disenados-por-estudiantes-del-rum-sobresalen-en-competencias-en-florida/

A group of students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, participated in competiton for mechanical engineers in Florida in March. Their planes received awards in 2 categories. 

Puerto Rican students received federal research fellowship

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Nineteen students from Puerto Rico received the prestigious federal Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In this article, two of those 19 students from Puerto Rico speak about their gradute school plans after receiving GRFP-NSF. 

Civil Engineers at University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez received over 20 awards at the ASCE Regional Competition

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This article was originally published by Rebecca Carrero Figueroa (rebecca.carrero@upr.edu) at PRENSA RUM on Friday, March 27, 2015.  

The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez received 24 awards in 13 events at the Regional Competition of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

To read the full article visit the Spanish version of this blog or the original article at: http://www.uprm.edu/portada/article.php?id=3210

Biology Chapter at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez received several awards

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This article was originally published by Idem Osorio De Jesús (idem.osorio@upr.edu) at PRENSA RUM on Friday, March 27th, 215. 

The Biology Chapter Zeta Alpha at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez received several awards at the 62 Regional (Caribbean) Convention of the National Honor Biology Society. Several members of the chapter received awards and the Chapter recieved the award Dr. Boyd B. Palmer, as the best chapter of the Caribbean region.

Awardees:
Karina N. Ruiz Esteves and Fabio L. Tarazona Tubens- 1st place for oral presentations

Rocío del M. Saavedra Peña- 2nd place for oral presentation

Informatics Enterprise Acknowledge Puertorican Talent

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A group of students from several campuses of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) received fellowships from Rock Solid Technologies. The Rock Solid 2015 fellowship recipients were:

Melinda Vargas Ramos- Majoring in Computarized Math at UPR- Humacao

Juan Octavio Cortés Mulero- majoring in Accounting at UPR- Humacao

Javier Ruiz Vélez- majoring in Accounting and computer Sciences at UPR-Rio Piedras

Alberic Dávila Cadilla- majoring in Computer Sciences at UPR- Bayamón

 

To read the full article, visit the Spanish version of this site.

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