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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.

Adriel Quiñones (Diálogo/Ricardo Alcaraz)

 

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.

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.

Intermediate School students participated in Mathcounts competition

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Contacto de prensa:

Carlos M. Rivera-Cuesta, APR

787-647-2600

carlos.partners@gmail.com

 

San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 28, 2014 – The state competition MATHCOUNTS® that helps to develop excellence in math among intermediate school students, has a great final on March 28.  About 25 private and public institutions were represented among the 200 participants.

Invitation to write articles about neuroscience for the Brain Awareness Week

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The Brain Awareness week (BAW) is celebrated during March 10-16 worldwide. As part of our commitment to promote science and research in Puerto Rico, this year Ciencia Puerto Rico is inviting scientists to submit and publish articles related to neuroscience topics.

Aprender sobre ciencias crea mejores ciudadanos

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“De manera fundamental sería ideal que el ciudadano promedio pudiera entender conceptos de ciencia y tecnología y porqué son importantes. La ciencia, en general, te lleva al pensamiento crítico. Si el ciudadano promedio utilizara el pensamiento crítico como herramienta cotidiana para resolver una gamma de problemas, yo creo, que tendríamos un mejor ciudadano”. Mónica Feliú-Mójer, Ph.D.

Comunicarle las ciencias al público crea mejores ciudadanos

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“De manera fundamental sería ideal que el ciudadano promedio pudiera entender conceptos de ciencia y tecnología y porqué son importantes. La ciencia, en general, te lleva al pensamiento crítico. Si el ciudadano promedio utilizara el pensamiento crítico como herramienta cotidiana para resolver una gamma de problemas, yo creo, que tendríamos un mejor ciudadano”. Mónica Feliu-Mojer, Ph.D.

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