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Georgia Tech offers a workshop about research governance and management

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Millie Rodríguez, Foundation for Puerto Rico

This Thursday, March 14, the Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust and the Georgia Institute of Technology will offer a free workshop about governance and management systems directed towards academic faculty and research administrators. The workshop will take place at the new Trust offices in PR 21 Barrio Monacillos, Rio Piedras, PR.

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SOS for a natural treasure

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Aurora Rivera Arguinzoni / arivera@elnuevodia.com

Contamination is threatening the Guachinanga island, a rare limestone formation in San Juan's San Jose Lagoon. This natural gem is home to coral fossils, rare birds and endangered native trees, and is being threatening by large volumes of trash and invasive species.

 

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Plan to save the Puerto Rican parrot

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Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez turned to crowdfunding to finance the sequencing of the Puerto Rican parrot's genome.


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UPR Rio Piedras students ran experiments at the NASA Johnson Space Center

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Lorna M. Castro

The team Microgravity Center for Advanced Nanoscale Materials (Micro-G CANM 2) from the Chemistry Department at the Natural Sciences School at the University of Puerto Rico was one of 5 teams selected to run experiments on zero gravity at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas last week. The team of students was led by Dr. Carlos Cabrera.

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Puerto Rican lizards adapt to Florida's weather

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Dr. Wilson González-Espada

Dr. Manuel Leal and collegueas from Duke University studied how the Puerto Rican lizard (Anolis cristatellus) has adapted to the weather in Florida. They estimated that it took approximately 35 evolutive generations to adjust to colder temperatures.

 

 

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Dr. Ingrid Montes is elected to the Board of Directors of the American Chemical Society

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The American Chemical Society (ACS) has elected Dr. Ingrid Montes, Professor in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Chemistry Department, to be part of its Board of Directors. CienciaPR congratulates Dr. Montes for this great achievement and honor and her service promoting chemistry education and research in Puerto Rico.


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The dark side of hand sanitizers

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The use of antimicrobial hand sanitizers has been on the rise around the world and in Puerto Rico. Instead of protecting people, their overuse could lead to antibiotic resistance and the evolution of new "bugs" that could be harder to control...

The author is a doctoral candidate in environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona and a member of Ciencia Puerto Rico.


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Promising research on aviculture waste to generate energy

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Marieli Collazo Vega

A group of researchers from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) at Río Piedras Campus are trying to generate energy from the waste called "gallinaza" generated by hens.

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Puerto Rican entrepreneurs create a website for funding new business ideas through crowdfunding

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A group of Puerto Rican entrepreneurs create a website for funding new business ideas through crowdfunding: antrocket.com.

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Environmental award for the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico

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The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico (FCPR) was awarded with the "Best environmeatl action" award by the Mapfre Foundation at their Social Awards 2012. The project presented by the (FCPR) was called "Puerto Rico shines naturally" and it took place at thenatural Reserve "Las Cabezas de San Juan" in Fajardo.

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