The UPR Medical Science Campus received a $10 million grant from the National Institute for Mental Health to study obsessive-compulsive behavior.

The orignal article is available in Spanish.

Dr. Myrna DelVecchio works as the supervisor of the Special Hemostasis Laboratory at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Brunswick, New Jersey. 

To read the full article, visit the Spanish version of this site.

Charles Henry Southwick, a world-renowned primatologist who was associated with the Cayo Santiago rhesus monkey colony and the Caribbean Primate Research Center since the 1960s, passed away at home on July 12, 2015 at age 86. His first of eight books was an edited volume “Primate Social Behavior” (1963), containing some classic chapters by the world’s leading primatologists, included at least one on Cayo Santiago. He also served on the UPR RCM Chancellor’s External Advisory Committee for the CPRC from 1990 – 1999. Puerto Rican scientists Dr. Janis González Martínez and Dr.

Marine Planner is a dynamic online tool to engage stakeholders in ocean planning in the U.S. Caribbean Islands region. Marine Planner consolidates essential data onto a state of the art mapping and visualization platform that allows state, federal, and local users to visualize, query, map, and analyze ocean and coastal data. By placing these resources directly in the hands of regional ocean stakeholders, the Ocean Planner supports collaborative decision making and robust regional ocean planning.