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Ciencia Puerto Rico is profiled as a model to increase diversity in the sciences

Submitted on 17 January 2014 - 12:20am

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San Juan, PR - Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR), an online network designed in 2006 to connect people interested in science and Puerto Rico, has been profiled in the prestigious scientific journal PLoS Biology as a model to link scientists from groups traditionally underrepresented in science and increase their visibility and ability to reach out to their communities.

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PR Physiological Society 4th Annual Meeting- Feb. 8 - Register before Jan. 24

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Puerto Rico Physiological Society 4th Annual Meeting

Exercise Physiology: from Molecules to Systems

 

WHERE: Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Psychology building

WHEN: Saturday, February 8, 2014 ; 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

 

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Jose Miguel Agrelot and his lessons for communicating science

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Communicating science is not too different from communicating humor. How Jose Miguel Agrelot successfully adapts a comedy sketch from the United States so that it works for a Puerto Rican audience provides a useful guide for science communicators. The full document is available only in Spanish.

Care about the future of science? Be visible.

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‘I am the girl that tweeted you’.

Elena found me on Twitter.  “I need your help,” she wrote.  I gave her my email.

Elena is an 8th grade student in Puerto Rico and her teacher had assigned students to profile a Puerto Rican scientist for a special project.  “You,” she wrote, “are my scientist.”

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