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College Biotechnology Week

Submitted on 19 September 2006 - 10:58am

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The Program of Industrial Biotechnology (Biotec) of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (RUM) celebrates its Third Annual College Biotechnology Week, that will culminate with the Latin American Congress and of the Caribbean in Biotechnology in which the scientific educative and economic perspectives of this discipline will be discussed. College Biotechnology Week will be from September 18-22, 2006.

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Ivy Plus: Graduate School recruitment in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 19 September 2006 - 10:11am

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From September 25-27, 2006, Ivy Plus -a group of universities from the Ivy League plus several of the US top-universities- will be visiting several UPR campuses. They will be offering orientation about their graduate programs and related concerns, such as financial aid, housing, prep exams, etc.

Urgent to move towards technology

Submitted on 14 September 2006 - 1:54pm

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Ronald Blackburn-Moreno, president of ASPIRA, a non-profit organization dedicated to leadership development and education of Puerto Rican and Latino youth, stated that Puerto Rico has great potential to develop a technology and knowledge-based economy in the forum “Connecting Puerto Rico towards a digital Puerto Rico: Encounter between Chile and Puerto Rico”. In addition, Blackburn-Moreno enumerated the challenges that the Country faces, which includes the lack of consensus on which specific economic development model we must follow, the political divisions, the bureaucracy and governmental inefficiency, and the lack of a public policy that promotes the development of the technological industry.

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Scientific expedition through the Caribbean

Submitted on 12 September 2006 - 3:04pm

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A group of scientists from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (RUM) left on August 26, 2006 for an expedition through the Caribbean, to study marine vortexes in that zone. The scientific crew, integrated by 14 people (five professors and nine Marine Sciences masters and doctorate students) departed from Isla Magueyes in La Parguera in the R/V Pelican boat on a trip that will last until September 10th. The first part of the expedition called CaVortEx (Caribbean Vorticity Experiment) includes areas from Puerto Rico to Aruba and covers 23 sampling stations in which they will measure different properties of the water and the microorganisms in it, informed doctor Jose Manuel Lopez Diaz, principal investigator and university Marine Sciences professor of the RUM. Professors Jorge Corredor, Julio Morell and Jorge Capella from Marine Sciences and Fernando Gilbes from Geology are co-principal investigators in the project.

Compassion as medicine

Submitted on 10 September 2006 - 12:51pm

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A doctor in a family of artists, his scientific passion is to obtain more effective treatments for the HIV/AIDS, without losing the perspective that human sensitivity is the best ingredient.

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