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"Long live coral reefs" recruits students to help conserve this marine habitat

Submitted on 27 September 2006 - 11:25am

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The “Long live the coral reefs” proyect from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez integrates lessons, videos and submarine field trips to teach 600 students from 14 municipalities, between 5 and 19 years old and members of the Youth Program and 4-H Clubs, about coral reefs y their conservation. The proyect is expected to last 18 months and hope to turn these youngster into spokespersons for marine resource conservation in their communities.

Biotechnology in preliminary steps

Submitted on 27 September 2006 - 11:13am

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Biotechnology in Puerto Rico is still in preliminary stages and is used to produce seeds tat are exported to the United Status, Europe and Brazil, according to Judith Rivera, from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. She said that companies in Puerto Rico develop seeds - like corn, soy, and sunflower- with new technologies that are sent to farmers in those countries, instead of developing products that could benefit agriculture in the Island.

Puerto Rico is the "Bio Island"

Submitted on 27 September 2006 - 10:49am

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Puerto Rico was presented as the “Bio Island” by governor Anibal Acevedo Vila, as he announced that Puerto Rico Hill be hosting the Biotechnology Industry Organization Affiliate States Meeting in November. The government is trying to transform Puerto Rico’s economy into a knowledge based one, focusing on biotechnology, research and development.

Luis Rodriguez Rivera named interim executive director of the ST&R Trust

Submitted on 20 September 2006 - 11:12pm

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The board of trustees of the Science, Technology and Research Trust on Monday announced the appointment of Luis Rodriguez Rivera as the entity’s new interim executive director.

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Broad National Effort Urgently Needed To Maximize Potential of Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia

Submitted on 20 September 2006 - 4:58pm

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Women are being filtered out of high-level science, math and engineering jobs in the United States, and there is no good reason for it, according to a National Academies report released on Monday. A committee of experts looked at all the possible excuses -- biological differences in ability, hormonal influences, childrearing demands, and even differences in ambition -- and found no good explanation for why women are being locked out.

College Biotechnology Week

Submitted on 19 September 2006 - 10:58am

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The Program of Industrial Biotechnology (Biotec) of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (RUM) celebrates its Third Annual College Biotechnology Week, that will culminate with the Latin American Congress and of the Caribbean in Biotechnology in which the scientific educative and economic perspectives of this discipline will be discussed. College Biotechnology Week will be from September 18-22, 2006.

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Ivy Plus: Graduate School recruitment in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 19 September 2006 - 10:11am

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From September 25-27, 2006, Ivy Plus -a group of universities from the Ivy League plus several of the US top-universities- will be visiting several UPR campuses. They will be offering orientation about their graduate programs and related concerns, such as financial aid, housing, prep exams, etc.

Urgent to move towards technology

Submitted on 14 September 2006 - 1:54pm

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Ronald Blackburn-Moreno, president of ASPIRA, a non-profit organization dedicated to leadership development and education of Puerto Rican and Latino youth, stated that Puerto Rico has great potential to develop a technology and knowledge-based economy in the forum “Connecting Puerto Rico towards a digital Puerto Rico: Encounter between Chile and Puerto Rico”. In addition, Blackburn-Moreno enumerated the challenges that the Country faces, which includes the lack of consensus on which specific economic development model we must follow, the political divisions, the bureaucracy and governmental inefficiency, and the lack of a public policy that promotes the development of the technological industry.

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Scientific expedition through the Caribbean

Submitted on 12 September 2006 - 3:04pm

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A group of scientists from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (RUM) left on August 26, 2006 for an expedition through the Caribbean, to study marine vortexes in that zone. The scientific crew, integrated by 14 people (five professors and nine Marine Sciences masters and doctorate students) departed from Isla Magueyes in La Parguera in the R/V Pelican boat on a trip that will last until September 10th. The first part of the expedition called CaVortEx (Caribbean Vorticity Experiment) includes areas from Puerto Rico to Aruba and covers 23 sampling stations in which they will measure different properties of the water and the microorganisms in it, informed doctor Jose Manuel Lopez Diaz, principal investigator and university Marine Sciences professor of the RUM. Professors Jorge Corredor, Julio Morell and Jorge Capella from Marine Sciences and Fernando Gilbes from Geology are co-principal investigators in the project.

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