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Celebrating the Biotechnology Week

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Marie Custodio Collazo / mcustodio@elnuevodia.com

Between September 16th and September 20th, the pharmaceutical sector is celebrating the Biotechnology Week in Puerto Rico.

 

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Closer look to Nile virus

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Marga Parés Arroyo / Mpares@elnuevodia.com

The Puerto Rico Department of Health will do an epidemiologic study on the transmission of the Nile virus and prevention measures after the possible confirmation of the first case of the disease in Puerto Rico.

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UPR team creates a website about the flora in El Yunque

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Graduate student Fabiola Areces created a website to document the flora at El Yunque. The project Flora Virtual El Verde was lead by James Ackerman and Elvia Meléndez at the University of Puerto Rico- Río Piedras Campus and funded by Fondo Institucional para la Investigación (FIPI) ,  Biological Research Collections at NSF and Centro de Ecología Tropical Aplicada y Conservación (CATEC).

http://floraelverde.catec.upr.edu/

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Space to interact in the School for Social Sciences

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The Social Sciences School at the University of Puerto Rico-  Río Piedras (UPR) launched Red(es) Sociales, an interactive space for students and faculty to socialize and study.

 

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Cosuam celebrates 6th anniversary by awarding several schools

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The program for sustainable schools (PES) manage by Cosuam, awarded several schools for their public health and sustainability efforts.

Below is the list of awards:

Coordinador(a) PES Global 2012-2013

• 1st Place

Ada Miranda Alvarado, maestra de Inglés, 

Escuela Intermedia Arturo Grant Pardo, Lajas 

 • 2nd Place

María Correa, maestra de matemáticas

Escuela Intermedia Francisco Felicié, Vega Alta 

 • 3rd place

Luz Burgos, maestra de ciencias

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IT company will generate hundreds of jobs in Puerto Rico

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A business agreement between IBM and Truenorth Corporation will generate hundred of jobs in Puerto Rico.

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Professors protest against Arecibo incinerator

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Javier Colón Dávila / javier.colon@gfrmedia.com

A group of professors at the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Puerto Rico denounced this morning that several government agencies to express themselves against the construction of a trash incinerator by the company Energy Answers in Arecibo.

 

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Resolution to study if used vegetable oil can be used as vehicle fuel

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Gerardo Cordero / gerardo.cordero@gfrmedia.com

The Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved a resolution to study whether vegetable oil used for cooking can be recycled as fueled for government vehicles.

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New generation of social researchers

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Thirty-two students started their journey as researchers for the Undergraduate Research Training Program (PAIS, in Spanish) at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez.

 

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The Caribbean's water is at risk

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DANICA COTO / The Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Experts are raising alarm regarding the effects of climate change in parts of the Caribeean, where fresh water could become scarce as a result of rising sea levels and drought. 


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