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  • Comment By: Marta Ruiz Diaz
    8 years ago

    ÚLTIMOS DÍAS PARA MATRICULARSE EN EL CURSO, QUEDAN ESPACIOS DISPONIBLES

  • Comment By: Rodolfo J Romañach
    8 years ago

    The Summer, the REU, and Research Culture, Rodolfo J. Romañach, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Site Leader ERC-SOPS

     

    I see the summer as my time for reading papers, organizing for a challenging upcoming course, and working with graduate students on manuscripts. I believe that this “renewal time” is very important for a researcher and for this reason I have never taught a course in the summer. I look back at summers where this renewal was the key to successful research grants, and others that were essential in developing a new course.

     

    These thoughts bounced back and forth through my mind when I first listened to Dr. Ubaldo Córdova describe his ideas for an NSF proposal on research opportunities for undergraduate students in the area of soft matter (REU). I was happy to learn about his dream of improving research on our campus, but at the same time concerned that this would take some time away from my summer plans. I agreed to support the program but not as active researcher, by providing a talk on writing skills for scientific communication, and some support funding through our Sloan Program of Exemplary Mentoring which is also focused on encouraging students to advance to graduate studies. 

    The REU proposal was approved and one of the students selected indicated his interest in working on near infrared spectroscopy, the area of expertise of my research lab. We were able to include this young researcher in our group plans and have one of my most memorable, happy, and productive summers. Fortunately, during the last year we have developed a research project within our Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (hppt://ercforsops.org) that involves all graduate students in our research group and Dr. Rafael Méndez from the Chemical Engineering department has also joined this effort. Four graduate students worked with Jacob Townsend, from Kennesaw State University, who will be completing his B.S. in Chemistry this next December. 

    Jacob worked on a set of experiments in this group project, and very quickly understood the theoretical background and importance of the research.  Our research involves analyzing pharmaceutical materials in the solid state. Jacob first worked with an experiment that we have designed for training new students,   which helped him in understanding the physics related to the scattering of radiation. He also grasped very quickly the multivariate analytical methods (chemometrics) that are based on linear algebra and careful evaluation of near infrared spectra. Jacob attended the IFPAC Summer Summit, a research meeting where our graduate students presented posters. He was exposed to the scientific literature, participated in the planning and performance of experiments, and made significant progress in the evaluation of the results obtained. By the end of the summer, he was working extremely well with our specialized software programs and studying them in detail. He developed a very well structured final report, which will form the basis of a future research paper. The results obtained were somewhat surprising and will have a strong impact on our future research.

    This summer has been one my best, it was the renewal that I have always dreamed thanks to the team that we have developed. This summer has been successful thanks to graduate student Barbara Alvarado who served as the pre faculty mentor to Jacob and also thanks to Adriluz Sánchez, Carlos Ortega and Eduardo Hernández, graduate students who also worked with Jacob throughout the summer. Dr. Carlos Pinzón our new postdoctoral research associate also contributed, and Dr. Rafael Méndez served as Jacob’s mentor and suggested key experiments that made a big difference. We were able to advance research, meet several times to discuss important research papers, and I was also able to make two presentations at the World Conference on Sampling and Blending in Bordeaux, enjoy some vacation time with my family, and two manuscripts were submitted for publication. 

    Research culture is how researchers feel and see the uniqueness of their research environment. If after listening to the President or Chancellor speak about the importance of research, two researchers say: “Wonderful speech and plans, but the reality in Mayagüez is …..”, they are describing our research culture. 

    Research culture starts within our research groups and students, and developing a strong community around a group project can be very productive. I hope this summary is useful to new professors starting research groups within our Campus and University.

     

  • Comment By: Gian Toyos
    8 years ago

    ...unos minutos -para reportar- si se encuentran...

  • Comment By: Gian Toyos
    8 years ago

    Sería de gran utilidad que tomaran unos minutos si se encuentran con este tipo de alga. Ver link

    http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/sargassum/sargassum.observation.form.php

  • 8 years ago

    ¡Claro! Ya les envié el afiche y el programa de la actividad.

  • 8 years ago

    Gracias Natalia! Se ve muy bueno. Por favor envíalo a eventos@cienciapr.org para poder subirlo al calendario de CienciaPR

  • Comment By: wpacheco (not verified)
    9 years ago

    position available int he School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at Ponce Health Sciences University. Details atached

  • Comment By: Ismael Gonzalez
    Reply to: ¿Contra natura?
    9 years ago

    A pesar de que tengo reparo a cómo se usa el término "estilo de vida", encuentro particularmente intersante este atículo y entiendo que sería recomendable una difusión más amplia del mismo.  Muchos de los puntos expuestos por el autor son discutidos por mí en el salón de clases con los estudiantes y en esas discusiones me he podido percatar que --a pesar de que usan continuamente el término "contra natura" para referirse a algunas conductas humanas-- un problema serio es que las personas no se ven a sí mismas como parte de la naturaleza y, por lo tanto, entienden que no están sujetas a los mismos principios.  De hecho, muchas se sorprenden y hasta se ofenden cuando les menciono que los seres humanos también somos animales.  Es mi opinión que las personas están tan absortas dentro de la versión creacionista --la cual le provee a los seres humanos un sitial y una dignidad distinta que al resto de la "creación"-- que no pueden imaginarse estar en el mismo rubro de un simio o de un crustáceo.  Felicitaciones al autor.

  • 9 years ago

    Gracias por estas notificaciones Jennifer! 

  • Comment By: Melitza Crespo-Medina
    9 years ago

    El programa preliminar del simposio se puede en contrar en el siguiente link... http://cecia.inter.edu/Programa%20Prel_11th%20Simposio%20de%20Agua%2018d...

  • Comment By: Oné R Pagán
    9 years ago

    El substituto del Dr. Basilio... (:-(...

  • Comment By: Declan McCabe
    9 years ago

    We closed this position because of changes in staffing at the college. 
    http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=56106

  • 9 years ago

    ¡Hola Mauricio! Muy cierto tu comentario. Muchas gracias por brindarnos otro consejo muy importante. 

  • 9 years ago

    Me parecen muy acertados tus consejos, creo que todos son importantes. Yo añadiría también lo siguiente: fijarse que la asesora o el asesor potencial tenga como costumbre compartir el crédito con sus estudiantes. Después del doctorado te tocará buscar trabajo y es importante que tu nombre empiece a figurar como primer autor, sin embargo, el orden de los autores en un artículo es determinado primordialmente por la asesora o el asesor. Así que si no ves los nombres de los estudiantes en los artículos y no los ves suficientemente como primeros autores, no es buena seña. 

  • Comment By: Jose Enrique Calderon
    9 years ago

    Any news about this event?  We are planning to hold a series of seminars for advance mode ARDUINO and RPi  makers. Interested , please emial me.

  • 9 years ago

    Emocion enorme al leer los logros y vision del Dr. Fernandez. No hay sitial mas grande en el mundo que el ser maestro por el hambre de aprender y enseñar. Mi taller de trabajo al realizar mi especialidad en medicina de familia, fue precisamente en Juncos, y me da tanta alegria enterarme de las hazañas de Jose!

    La gente que toco mi pasion por la ciencia son eternamente recordados....la quimica que me enseño Sister Inesta en la Academia del Sagrado Corazon en Santurce, el Dr. David Nelson, editor del referente Biochemistry de Lehninger en la Universidad de Wisconsin en Madison. la investigacion en UPR Rio Piedras con Dr. Fernando Renaud. Los doctores Dr. Tomas Morales Cardona, Miguel Garcia Castro, Angel Roman Franco, Norman Maldonado y tantos otros en Ciencias Medicas UPR. Que orgulo Ciencia PR y sentirme parte de una red boricua de amantes de la ciencia. Hay verdadera grandreza en esta concepcion de la vida! Juntos ante el embate de la pseudociencia y la ignorancia! 

  • Comment By: Jennifer Lyann Gil
    9 years ago

    Thank You :)

  • Comment By: Sally A. Everson
    9 years ago

    Post the link to your new Blog!

  • Comment By: Oné R Pagán
    9 years ago

    Hola!  Si le hace falta material para entrevistas estoy a las ordenes.  Soy profesor universitario, cientifico y autor.  Vivo y trabajo en PA y soy nacido y criado en PR.  Me deja saber.

    Mi perfil en CienciaPR:

    http://www.cienciapr.org/en/user/orpagan

    Saludos,

     

    One'

     

    O.R. Pagán, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology
    West Chester University
    750 S. Church St., West Chester, PA 19330

    Office: Merion 302
    Phone: 610-436-2165
    Fax: 610-436-2183
    e-mail: opagan@wcupa.edu

  • 9 years ago

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    It is a pleasure to invite you to submit an article for consideration to JOUST. 

    A submission should be as follows:

    1. Three to five pages formatted in MS Word, in single-column, single-spaced, Arial type of 11 points, including one figure per page, and up to 10 selected references, with at least 60% of them published within the last 3 years.
    2. One graphical abstract in a power-point slide.
    3. A cover letter indicating (a) participation of undergraduate students (must be at least 50%), (b) all coauthors and affiliations, indicating clearly who the undergraduate student(s) is(are).
    4. An undergraduate student must be first author and a faculty must be the corresponding author.
    5. References will be cited in Vancouver style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_system).
    6. Any additional multimedia (video, data, graphs) will be considered for the companion site of JOUST but can be submitted after the manuscript. 

    The refereeing system is double blind. We appreciate that, if the work was already published anywhere else, you let us know in your cover letter.

    To follow its undergraduate readership, JOUST will be distributed through Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JoustContact. You can download our first number now.

    Submissions are welcome at joust.contact@gmail.com

    We hope you join us!

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