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Retired Professor creates a digital library focusing on science and history of Puerto Rico

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Michelle Estades
José Mari Mut, retired Biology Professor at the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus, has a philosophy that knowledge should be available to everyone. With this goal in mind he created Ediciones Digitales, a webpage with the purpose of sharing documents about science and history of Puerto Rico, free to the public.

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Business Innovation Experts offer Free Workshops

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El Nuevo Dia

 

Charles Kwon and Aman Advani, two world class business experts, will offer free workshops for startup companies as part of a series organized by Founder's Institute at Piloto 151 in Old San Juan, PR.

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Free Web Development Courses

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Sharon Minelli Pérez

ArrancaPR announced their new cycle of workshops on programming and web development, these are free of chage and avaiable through a video conference system. 

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Agribusiness with history and innovation

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Ganaderos Alvarado, is a local family business with a long history and productive innovative tradition. It is one of the businesses in the agriculture sector with the capacity of developing a productive process from the farm to the supermarket. 

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Important Step for Science in the Island

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Puerto Rican authorities have inaugurated the first center for registering and studying climate change in dry forests that exist in the Caribbean and the United States. 

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A vaccine for the Zika virus

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The Unted States government begun an investigation for the development of a vaccine against the Zika virus, but this will not happen overnight. Dr. Anibal J. Valentin Acevedo, Immunology Professor form the University of Puerto Rico - Aguadilla, points out that developing a vaccine that is effective against disease can take years of research.

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Spectacular images of the International Space Station as it passes above Puerto Rico

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Pictures obtained in Aguadilla using a telescope showed the International Space Station in the moments that it passed above Puerto Rico this week.

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