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Ask your Professional Organization or Scientific Society to support strong governance and the autonomy and independence of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

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Have you already signed the petition as an individual? If not, click here to sign.  The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics (PRIS) continues to weaken as an institution and needs the scientific community and friends of Puerto Rico to take action. We invite you to sign this petition and to recruit your professional organization or scientific society to do the same. We have created this form so that professional organizations and scientific societies can join us in defending strong governance for PRIS.

The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics continues to weaken

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Dear members of the scientific community and friends of Puerto Rico,

We want to draw your attention and invite you to take action on an urgent public policy issue: the continued weakening of the governance of the Puerto Rican Institute of Statistics (PRIS). We invite you to sign and share the petition below.

SIGN THE PETITION!

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Science and public policy for a more resilient Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico is at a crossroads—the reconstruction decisions made following the fiscal crisis and the hurricanes of 2017 will determine the kind of society we will have in the future. Do we want to be prepared for the hurricanes to come? Or are we willing to allow the mistakes of the past to be repeated?

Moving forward requires that Puerto Rican policy makers incorporate the best available data from different fields, from economics, public administration, and social sciences, to engineering, technology, and the natural and physical sciences. Therefore, it is essential that public and private sectors collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to formulate public policies based on evidence.

Local agricultural biotechnology industry is operating normally and at full capacity

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PRABIA

The seven companies that are part of the Puerto Rico Agricultural Biotechnology Industry Association (PRABIA) work at full speed in their work, in addition to contributing to the recovery of the country.

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Free public health training for volunteers

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The workshops will be at the INEDA facilities at UMET Bayamón.

The Metropolitan University in Bayamón will offer free public health disaster training for people who wish to be volunteer instructors in the reception centers of the World Cares Center, an organization in the United States that empowers communities to respond to disasters. The workshops will be offered on November 9 and 10 at the Institute of Environmental Education (INEDA) from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

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Help efforts in disadvantaged communities

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UMET

Following the devastation left behind by Hurricane Irma and Maria, professors and students from the School of Environmental Affairs of the Metropolitan University (UMET) of Cupey are coordinating recovery efforts for disadvantaged communities of San Juan and Cataño. This initiative of the UMET impacts 15 community gardens in San Juan and Cataño.

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Discovery of biomarkers that identify cancer cells with low oxygenation

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Researchers of the UMET achieve a patent that benefits cancer patients.

Two professors from the School of Environmental Affairs of the Metropolitan University (UMET) discovered biomarkers that identify cancer cells with little oxygenation. This discovery was certified by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and will benefit in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.

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The "rebirth" of two tree species in Puerto Rico

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Gerardo E. Alvarado León

A recently concluded investigation shed light on the history of two endemic species of trees, which now honor with their names a couple of important women in the dissemination of botanical science in Puerto Rico.

Pisonia Roqueae and Pisonia Bake are the new names that scientists Jorge Carlos Trejo Torres and Marcos Caraballo Ortiz gave to the trees, described for the first time in 1896 and the subject of taxonomic debates since then. Pisonia Roqueae recognizes Puerto Rican amateur ethnobotany Ana Roqué from Duprey, and Pisonia Bakes, to American illustrator Frances Horne.

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Three bronze metals for Puerto Rico

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Three Puerto Rican students won bronze medals at the XXXII Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiad, which was held recently in Iguazu, Argentina.

The students, trained by professors from the Mayagüez University campus (RUM), were Sebastián Latin, from the residential Center of educational opportunities of Mayaguez (CROEM); Omar Santiago, high school specializing in science, mathematics and technology (CIMATEC); and Miguel Tulla of the school Notre Dame, these last two in Caguas.

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