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The Fifth Anniversary of Ciencia Puerto Rico: Five years promoting science and research in our archipelago

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Changes in CienciaPR website in first 5 years
CienciaPR website throughout time. March, 2006 (left). Right, August, 2011

CienciaPR.org was established in 2006 with the mission of providing a site in where the members of the scattered Puerto Rican scientific community could have a meeting point. Thanks to the support of thousands of users and a dedicated group of volunteer scientists, in five years, CienciaPR have exceeded the initial expectations becoming one of the scientific portals of more coverage in Puerto Rico and Latin America.

Nowadays, we count with more than 5,300 members, among which we have scientists, students and professionals and teachers from Puerto Rico, USA and more than 25 countries. The common connections that unifies us together are an interest for Puerto Rico and science. Thanks to these interests, CienciaPR and its members have been able to publish and disseminate hundreds of scientific news to the media, to help with the appreciation and understanding of sciences in Puerto Rico throughout a series of podcasts, and to contribute with the dissemination of important information to help building careers in research. Currently, our website receives more than a million visits monthly.

Ciencia Boricua¡Ciencia Boricua!: Essays y Anecdotes of the Boricua Scientist.

Commited with our mission, CienciaPR.org has decided to celebrate its fifth anniversary by giving two presents to the scientific community. The first one is the emission of the book ¨¡Ciencia Boricua!: Ensayos y Anecdotas del Científico Puertorro¨. This work, written entirely by scientists’ members of CienciaPR.org, covers in an interesting way and a familiar language many science related situations and anecdotes from the ¨boricua¨ living perspective.

On the occation of our cellebration, we are having our first educational symposium titled, ¨I want to be a scientist... what I should do?¨. This event will touch topics like how to apply to graduate school, strategies to excel before, during and after my Ph.D., funding opportunities and options after the Ph.D. This symposium is geared to students that have the dream of devoting their lives to science. For this purposes, we have put together a panel of scientists that will instruct us in the process of pursuing a Ph.D. and what to do after getting it. Also, the audience will have the opportunity of meeting the team of CienciaPR.org and to do some networking with the speakers.

 

The following is all the information about the symposium. Although all the spots for the symposium are filled we invite you to register in the waiting list in the following link:. http://ht.ly/6xdkM.

Date: September 24th, 2011
Place: Medicine Amphitheater #2, 3rd floor, Guillermo Arbona Bldg, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico
Agenda:  
8:30 am – 9:30 am Registration
9:30 am – 10:30 am Welcome & Talk: CienciaPR, a Network of Resouces for the Boricua Scientist
  Dr. Daniel Colón Ramos, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Yale University; Director,
Ciencia Puerto Rico
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Graduate School: Trampoline to Biomedical Sciences
  Mónica
I. Feliú Mójer
, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Vice-Director, Ciencia
Puerto Rico
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm "Networking"
Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Research Funding
  Dr. Alberto Rivera Rentas, Programs Director,
National Institute of
General Medical Sciences
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Carriers in Science Panel
  Dr. Daniel Colón Ramos, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Yale University; Director,
Ciencia Puerto Rico
  Dr. Carlos Rinaldi,
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
  Dr. Carlos Ríos Velázquez,
Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
  Dra. Giovanna Guerrero, Head of Scientific Public Policy and Division of Research in Special Populations, Van Andel Research Institute
  Dr. Alberto Rivera Rentas, Programs Director,
National Institute of
General Medical Sciences
  Dr. Jorge Miranda González, Associate Dean of Biomedical Sciences and Director of the Graduate Program. Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Acknowledgements & Adjournment
  Dr. Daniel Colón Ramos, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Yale University; Director,
Ciencia Puerto Rico

For more information about the symposium of CienciaPR, visit our page of write an email to our Vice-Director Mónica Feliú-Mójer.

We hope that this event and the book are of your enjoyment and that we can count with your support to continuing growing and improving the panorama of the sciences in Puerto Rico and celebrating with you all our following anniversaries.

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