The Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) established a collaboprative agreement with Amgen and Harvey Mudd College (HMC) in California to conduct the first global workshops on biotechnology in Puerto Rico.

Students from the Environmental Sciences Laboratory in the Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico are in charge of keeping aquaponic project. This projects aims to grow plants using organic fertilizers from the tilapia fish manure, and at the same time, the plants will serve as a filter so that those fertilizers do not concentrate in the water, harming the fishes.