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Engaging Underrepresented Communities with Science Using Social Networking Platforms

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Although Hispanics comprise 16% of the total population in the United States, they remain largely underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degrees and careers. 

First Educational Symposium CienciaPR

Estudiantes durante el Simposio CienciaPR 2011
Students during the 2011 Educational Symposium

In agreement with our mission to help train future generations of Puerto Rican scientists, on September 24, 2012 CienciaPR held a symposium entitled "I want to be a scientist ... Now what do I do?”. Over one hundred undergraduate and graduate students from 15 universities throughout Puerto Rico attended the symposium, which also involved the participation of professors and researchers from various institutions. The event was held at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

About Ciencia Puerto Rico

 

Who We Are 

Ciencia Puerto Rico is a global community of >15,000 scientists, students, educators and allies who understand that science can empower people with the knowledge, capacity and agency to improve their lives and society. Through our programs, we promote the civic engagement of our rich and diverse community to democratize science, transform science education and professional development, and put science in service of Puerto Rico. 

Interested in finding peers and opportunities to contribute to Puerto Rico through science? Join us! 

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What We Do 

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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.

CienciaPR and El Nuevo Dia: A new network of boricua scientists

Submitted on 13 June 2006 - 9:46am

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

CienciaPR Contribution: 

The Professional is a member of CienciaPR
CienciaPR established a collaboration with the Science section of El Nuevo Dia, to write articles featuring what our scientists do and how science affects our society. CienciaPR members talked to this newspaper about this collaboration and the initiatives of CAPRI and CienciaPR

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