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Annual Meeting for Science and Material Engineering Clubs

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The Nanotechnology Center of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (UPRM-CREST) will be hosting the Annual Meeting for the Science and Material Engineering Clubs (CIM Clubs) on Friday, October 28 at the Rafael A. Mangual Coliseum on campus. This event will bring together CREST sponsored CIM clubs established in 17 public school across the Island. 

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Searching for measures to prevent neurocognitive damage in HIV positive women

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Dr. Valerie Wojna, Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus is collaborating with the University of Hawaii on a clinical study to test the effect of a drug that could counteract the neurocgonitive damage caused by HIV in puertorrican and hawaiian women.

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Students confirm the negative effects of using pesticides in agriculture

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A group of students from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey carried out a research project to examine the effect of excessive use of pesticides in agriculture. Their research confirmed the negative impact of these substances to health and the natural environment. 

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Testing for vaccine against Zika starts in Puerto Rico

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Dr. Jorge L. Santana Bagur, Professor from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Science Campus in collaboration with Universities in the United States and Canada, are working simultaneously on a study to test the efficacy of a vaccine agaist zika virus.

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Use of Home tests help prevent HIV proliferation

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A study implemented by the Medical Sciences Campus at the University of Puerto Rico in collaboration with Columbia University in New York, has positively impacted hundreds of gay men and transgender women through the distribution of more than one thousand home tests as a prevention method for the spread of HIV. 

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Book about Puertorrican scientist who traveled to the south pole relaunches

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The book “A Puerto Rican in the South Pole” by Profesor Armando Caussade will be launched on October 12. The activity will take place at UMET in Cupey at 7:00 pm, the activity will be free and open to the public.

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On their way to discover Costa Rica's success

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Students from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus will travel to Costa Rica as part of an undergraduate course to learn from Costa Rica's successful renewable energy system. 

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Emphasis on the monitoring and education function of the Vector Control Unit

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The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Fund announced that they would create and manage the Vector Control Unit of Puerto Rico whose primary function will be the creation of an exhaustive program to reduce aedes aegypti mosquitos.

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Peculiarities of bees in Puerto Rico – part II

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This is the second of two articles about the diversity of bees in Puerto Rico.

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Peculiarities about bees of Puerto Rico – part I

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Raúl A. Pérez-Rivera

This is one of two articles about the diversity of bees in Puerto Rico.

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Figura1. Túnel construido por un abejón. Tiene cámaras en donde se deposita polen y néctar. Otros espacios se utilizan para poner los huevos y criar las larvas. (Wikipedia)

 

 

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