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Estudiante graduado... No pierdas tiempo! Empieza a preparar tu solicitud para las becas de NSF ya!

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Si eres estudiante graduado de 1ro o 2do año, te recomendamos solicitar al programa de becas de NSF, el cual reconoce estudiantes prometedores que estén cursando su maestrías o doctorados en disciplinas de ciencia o ingeniería. A pesar de ser un programa altamente competitivo, los estudiantes de Puerto Rico han sido muy exitosos en el pasado consiguiendo estas becas.

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ASPPH/CDC Public Health Fellowship Program

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Now Accepting Applications 
 
The ASPPH/CDC Public Health Fellowship Program offers outstanding opportunities for early-career public health professionals by enabling them to train at CDC on a variety of high-priority public health issues. ASPPH/CDC Public Health Fellows work closely with nationally recognized experts within the nation’s premier health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency and global leader in public health.

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Extinction of the Puerto Rican boa could represent a public health risk

Submitted on 2 August 2013 - 6:42pm

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

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Antonio R. Gómez / antonio.gomez@gfrmedia.com

The Puerto Ricna boa was declared an endangered species in 1970, and although there are specimens in certain regions of Puerto Rico, the species continues to be threatened risking not only its survival but public health. Boas eat rodents, like rats and mice, which can transmit diseases to humans.

The fate of the boa and other endangered species in the Caribbean and Latin American are being discussed this weekend at a conference at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo.

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Aumentar la diversidad en la disciplina de la Ecología

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Un miembro de CienciaPR, Ricardo J Colón-Rivera, ha publicado un artículo en la revista de la Sociedad Eclógica de América (EUA) acerca de la importancia de aumentar la diversidad de los ecólogos y mejorar la comunicación científica con el público en general.

Lo puedes encontrar aquí:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242013673_Seeds_of_a_New_Millennium

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