Chemistry and Physical Sciences

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Student Volunteer Program

Submitted by Mónica Ivelisse Feliú-Mójer on 22 April 2013 - 12:47pm

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

All student volunteer applicants must be:

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Optics and Photonics Congresses, Rio Grande, PR

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Sunday, 14 July 2013 to Friday, 19 July 2013

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Verizon Powerful Answers Award- 10 Million in Prizes for projects in health care, education and sustainability

Submitted by Greetchen Díaz-Muñoz on 20 April 2013 - 1:49pm

Verizon is offering $10 million in prizes for innovators and companies who propose the most innovative solutions utilizing Verizon’s unique combination of network, device and platform technologies to help reinvent and empower the three core areas of healthcare, education and sustainability. The prize awards in each of the three core areas include the following:

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Jayuya STEM Scholarship

Submitted by Greetchen Díaz-Muñoz on 20 April 2013 - 12:16pm

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Programa de Liderazgo para estudiantes universitarias Latinas

Submitted by Mónica Ivelisse Feliú-Mójer on 18 April 2013 - 11:13pm

The National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI), a 501(c)3 organization based in Washington, DC was established in 1987 to address the underrepresentation of Latinas in the corporate, nonprofit and political arenas. NHLI’s mission is to develop Latinas as ethical leaders through training, professional development, relationship building and community activism.

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11 Puerto Rican students will participate in a robotics competition

Submitted on 18 April 2013 - 5:18pm

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

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El Nuevo Dia

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Eleven Puerto Rican students from the Escuela Especializada Central de Artes Visuales will participate in the Robo Games Competition in robotics in California.

The original news story is in Spanish. To read the full text, please click on the "Español" button below or the link at the top right of the page.

Science Policy Fellowship for Marine Scientists

Submitted by Mónica Ivelisse Feliú-Mójer on 16 April 2013 - 11:25pm

A fellowship for marine science postdoctoral scholars and doctoral candidates interested in bridging the gap between science and policy by spending a year in Washington DC researching, developing and advocating for research and sound ocean policy.