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Greetchen Díaz: ponceña even in the moon

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Sandra Torres Guzmán

Greetchen Díaz-Muñoz, is a scientist postdoc associate that studies HPV at Nebraska University and also volunters at Ciencia Puerto Rico. This article features her story from her beginnings at Playa de Ponce until become a role model and advocate for sciences in Puerto Rico.

 

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Architecture inspired by science

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Wilfredo Méndez Vázquez y Edlyn García La Torre

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Daniel Colón-Ramos: Observing and making connections

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Caitlin Sedwick/csedwick@gmail.com

Published October 28, 2013 // JCB vol. 203 no. 2 168-169
The Rockefeller University Press, doi: 10.1083/jcb.2032pi

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Basic Science: fundamental in the practice of medicine

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Mónica I. Feliú Mójer

Article about the importance of basic science in the medicine debate.

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Puerto Rican scientist works hard to visit Mars

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Aurora Rivera Arguinzoni / arivera@elnuevodia.com

Dr. Yajaira Sierra Sastre visited two schools in Cataño to talk about her experiences doing research under a NASA program and her dreams to become an astronaut.

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Puerto Rican student received prestigious award for her environmental leadership

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Amira Odeh a young student from Bayamon was among the new leaders that were awarded with the Brower Youth Award by the Earth Island Institute for her project: No more plastic bottles.

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Cannon to shoot asteroids

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The Spatial agency of Japan has designed a cannon to be used in space to shoot small asteroids according to their website emol.

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First poisonous crustacean discovered

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Pedro Bosque Pérez / pedro.bosque@gfrmedia.com

Speleonectes tulumensis, is a blind poisonous crustacean, discovered in the world as published in  Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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Ciencia Puerto Rico has new tools

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Rut N. Tellado Domenech / rtellado@elnuevodia.com

 Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) has new tools on their website to facilitate the conections between the scientific community.

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Five academic programs have been accredited at UPR

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Daniel Sepúlveda

Five academic programs have been accredited at UPR system by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET),

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