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New eco-friendly school in Culebra

Submitted on 24 August 2007 - 12:59pm

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The Carmelo Delgado Ecologic School, in Culebra, is unique in Puerto Rico because it follows the rules of environmental sustainability and conservation, by using solar panels that produce 60% of the energy it consumes and a system of water tanks to collect water for domestic use.

UPR aims high

Submitted on 24 August 2007 - 12:28pm

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In this new academic year, the University of Puerto Rico bets on the internationalization of the institution to broaden the academia experience of their students and turn the premier academia center in the country into an option for foreign students. The President of the University, Antonio Garcia Padilla also said that as part of “Ten for the Decade” the evaluation culture in the University will be intensified, with renovations to the curriculum and support to the infrastructure, among other things.

A new, stronger PRIDCO

Submitted on 24 August 2007 - 12:12pm

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A little bit more than a year after the start of the re-organization of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO), the agency’s executives assure that the changes have improve the satisfaction of their industrial clients and that Puerto Rico has been better advertised abroad as an investment destination. The executives describe the “new PRIDCO” has a better and updated public corporation that has a more effective organization, although it now has about half of the employees it had on July 2006.

Good news for the UPR Cayey director

Submitted on 24 August 2007 - 12:03pm

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The director of the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey, Ram S. Lamba, has been elected to part of the directive of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. This is the first time that Puerto Rico and a representative from the Caribbean is part of the directive of this group of academics.

Government officials have a brush with senator over Ecological Corridor

Submitted on 23 August 2007 - 4:41pm

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Although they recognize that the government currently doesn’t have the funding necessary to buy all the land in the Northeastern Ecological Corridor, three agency secretaries assured that there are other alternatives to obtain the money to buy all the land in private hands and they questioned senator Carlos Diaz opposition to the approval of the project.

Funding needed for the Estuary

Submitted on 23 August 2007 - 3:43pm

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To guarantee the restoration of the San Juan Bay Estuary, laws are needed to oblige the agencies and the 8 municipalities that surround the estuary to assign funding for its maintenance. “The San Juan Bay Estuary Consortium has a good management plan and great projects that it has to coordinate with government agencies and the municipalities. However, some of the measures related to the estuary need to be enforced by law”, said Javier Laureano, executive director of the San Juan Bay Estuary Consortium.

Advancements against hemorragic dengue

Submitted on 16 August 2007 - 1:32pm

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Researchers at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico have found in a group of lab monkeys a clue that might help them discover a way to avoid that dengue in humans turns into the deadliest form of the disease, hemorrhagic dengue fever. The scientists discovered that monkeys protect themselves of hemorrhagic dengue because they have three proteins that can be used to develop antiviral drugs for humans during the first stages of dengue.

Important victory in the fight against dengue

Submitted on 16 August 2007 - 1:25pm

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Unfortunately there is no vaccine or cure for dengue, so the most effective way to control the disease is managing the populations of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits it. But this has proven to be a difficult task. But thanks to genetics, the fight against dengue has scored an important victory: the sequence of the Aedes aegypti genome, published in June in the prestigious Science magazine. This article is part of CienciaPR’s collaboration with El Nuevo Dia.

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