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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.

Three students from the University of Puerto Rico awarded at the ERN in STEM conference

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Three students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez received the 1st place in different categories at the Emerging Researchers National Conference (ERN) in STEM during February 19-21 in Washington DC. The ERN conference is sponsored by AAAS and NSF.

Jahannie Torres Rodríguez, Computer and Electric Engineer- 1st place in Mathematics & Science Education. Poster: Nanotechnology Videogame for Middle School Students

Héctor Colón Colón, Chemical Engineer- 1st place in Technology and Engineering (Materials Science and Engineering). Poster: Strengthening of Aluminum with Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes by Mechanical Alloying and Sintering

Puerto Rican Student among the winners of the 2015 Award for Aspirations in Computing

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Natalia Pacheco from Puerto Rico is one of the 35 winners of the 2015 Award for Aspirations in Computing sponsored by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT).

To read the entire article visit:

https://www.aspirations.org/blog/2015-national-winners-runners-announced 

 

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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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.

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