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Puerto Rican scientist analyzes the risk of pesticides to human health

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Gerardo E. Alvarado León

Minerva Mercado Feliciano works as toxicologist at the Environmental Protection Agency, where she researches the effects of different pesticides to human health. She helps determining minimum levels of pesticides in the foods we eat.

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

Jenna R. Jambeck1,*, Roland Geyer2, Chris Wilcox3, Theodore R. Siegler4, Miriam Perryman1, Anthony Andrady5, Ramani Narayan6, Kara Lavender Law7

 

Professor at the UPR researches how to overcome fear memories

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Dr. Gregory Quirk, professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus researches the neural basis of fear memories.

 

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UPR Arecibo mourns the loss of faculty member

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UPR Arecibo mourns the loss of faculty member, Dr. Ibis L. Aponte Avellanet. Dr. Aponte served as associate professor of Technology and Industrial Chemistry.

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Student at RUM collaborated with Nobel Laureate

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Jesús Emanuel López Vargas, student at University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez collaborated with Dr. Charles Rice, Nobel Laureate, at the Univesity of Kansas. 

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Santurce will have a School focused on Entrepreneurship

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TrepMinds will open a school focused on Math, Programming and Entrepreneurship.

There will be two info sessions about TrepMinds Accelerate on Tuesday, October 27 and Thursday, October 29 at 6:00 PM at the Colaboratorio en Ciudadela de Santurce. To reserve your space visit eventbrite.com, or email   info@trepminds.co   or call (787) 225-5524.

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City of birds

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The Conservation Trust studies the migration of birds in Ciales. 

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Solution to the trash found in the oceans

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SAN JUAN -Several strategies and solutions were discussed at an International Marine Conference in Puerto Rico to clean the oceans from plastics.

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Puerto Rican microbiologist researches respiratory diesases in aviculture

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Maricarmen García De la Vega is a microbiologist that studies respiratory diseases in birds at the Poultry Diagnostic Research Center at the University of Georgia. 

 

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STEM Science Expo in Ponce

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Student Adriana Alvarado Maldonado, from Hemeterio Colón and Warens School in Ponce, hosts a Science STEM Expo as part of her participation in "Semillas de Triunfo", a Ciencia Puerto Rico initiative.

The EXPO is scheduled for November 17 at 9:00 a.m. at the school.

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