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An Intern's Story: A Way to Evaluate Human Performance

Submitted on 10 September 2010 - 7:34pm

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Summer interns come to NASA's Langley Research Center for various reasons. Some want a good summer job. Some want a resume boost. Others want to take a look at what could be their own future. Most leave surprised at what they are given a chance to do. Over the next two weeks, the Researcher News is presenting a few of their stories. This story was written by University of Puerto Rico student and CienciaPR member, Jorge Herrera.

UPR ranks 15th in research activities amongst Latin-American and Caribbean institutions

Submitted on 9 September 2010 - 12:39pm

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The Scimago Research Group has published the Ibero-American Ranking SIR 2010, which includes the 607 ibero-American universities (Latin-American plus Spain and Portugal) that published at least one scientific paper included in Scopus database during term 2003-2008. The report presents four indicators to analyze scientific output, international collaboration in research and impact of the universities. To see the report (in Spanish), click here.

March against the gas pipeline

Submitted on 9 September 2010 - 12:06pm

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The community organization Casa Pueblo de Adjuntos is inviting all Puerto Ricans to march against the gas pipeline "Via Verde", on Sunday, September 19th, 2010, from 11:00 am, departing from the Guarionex complex in Adjuntas.

Lessons from Marazzi

Submitted on 6 September 2010 - 11:04pm

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The suspension of Mario Marazzi, director of the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico, for demanding the government to publish the new and accurate Consumer Price Index, highlights the lack of transparency of the government in Puerto Rico and raises many concerns.

The government does not have permits to build gas pipeline

Submitted on 6 September 2010 - 10:33pm

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Legislator Jorge Colberg said in a press conference that the government is announcing that the Vía Verde gas pipeline will be ready in a year and a half without even having the permits from the EPA, the United States Fish and Wildlife or the Corp of Engineers.

Transparency criminalized in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 3 September 2010 - 9:44pm

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Mario Marazzi-Santiago has been suspended as the director of the Statistics Institute of Puerto Rico, after requesting, via lawsuit, the Department of Work and Human Resources to publish the Consumer Price Indexes, which the Institute had previously shown were being overestimated, and probably affecting negatively the Puerto Rican economy. Under the law, the Department of Work is required to report those Consumer Price Indexes. To see the report drafted by the Statistics Institute, with the new Consumer Price Indexes, click here.

Tuque still missing

Submitted on 2 September 2010 - 2:04pm

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Tuque, the manatee that was freed in an enclosed area of Punta Salinas beach to help him acclimated to life back at sea in preparation for his full release, has been missing for two days.

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