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High school students interact with local scientists during the International RCMI Symposium

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Annelyn Torres-Reveron

Scientists from Puerto Rico's biomedical science research institutions offered demonstrations and interacted with 150 students from public and private schools around Puerto Rico during the 13th International RCMI Symposium.  The main goal of the activities was to develop the students' interest in health-related careers, particularly those focusing on decreasing health disparities in local communities.

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Former Science Trust expert calls for overhaul of R&D approach

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JAIME SANTIAGO

If Puerto Rico is going to have any chance of creating a biotechnology sector that creates quality research and independent-minded scientists for the island's biotech apparatus, the approach to research being conducted at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) must be revamped. That is where a former trustee of the Science, Technology & Research Trust, Mariano García-Blanco, is saying we have to eliminate the political ebb and flow that propitiates lack of continuity and affects the quality of research at the university.

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Fortuño Administration steamrolls the Puerto Rico Science Trust

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Ely Acevedo Denis

Recent appointment in the Puerto Rico Science Trust's Board raise questions about the politicization of this entity supposed to promote knowledge-based economic growth in Puerto Rico.

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Former Director of the Puerto Rico Science Trust says Pérez Riera is a "hypocrite"

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Ely Acevedo Denis

Allegations by Thomas Forest Farb, former director of the Puerto Rico Science Trust, that the public trustees repeatedly blocked the naming of new private trustees to retain control of the operations and assets of the Trust have acquired new relevance now that the public trustees have rushed the appointment of new private trustees.

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The neural basis of fear

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Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico recently publishes a study that helps us understand how the prefrontal cortex integrates information from other parts of our brains to regulate our fear response.

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Pressure and volcanos

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A new technique detects slight deformations on a volcano's surface caused by the pressure created by magma as it approaches the Earth's surface.

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Students from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus study the use of poultry droppings as an alternative energy source

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Students from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, studied the use of poultry droppings as a potential source of green energt, informed today Dr. Carmen S. Maldonado–Vlaar, Director of the  Project of Undergraduate Research Initiatives and Creative Activities (iINAS, for its Spanish acronym).

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Architects defend Guanica's Dry Forest Reserve

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The College of Architects and Landscaping Architects of Puerto Rico demanded that the president of the Planification Board, Rubén Flores Marzán, does not allow a proposal to change the protection status of 60 acres within the Guanica Dry Forest Reserve to move forward.

 

 

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