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NSF announces over $5M in funding to create new STEM education and research center at the Arecibo Observatory site

Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced an investment of over $5 million over five-years for a collaborative…

UPR Aguadilla competes in the 2022 STEM for All Video Showcase

It is an online competition on research proposals that address a global problem and the public has until May 17 to vote for…

Federal grant establishes a virology research institute at Inter American University

The Aguadilla Campus of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico is the only institution in Puerto Rico that will be part…

Post-Hurricane PBL Lessons (NSF)

CienciaPR, in partnership with Yale University, is carrying out a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The…

Collaborative resilience project between University of Puerto Rico campuses receives funding from NSF

A collaborative project between the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Río Piedras and Ponce campuses has received over $1…

Passionate about bats

Venus Andrea Páez is a high school student that is part of the science citizen project with Para La Naturaleza, and has…

Students at UPR design projects to help people with disabilities

As part of the Capstone program, students at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (RUM) are developing projects to improve…

Arecibo Observatory celebrates the launch of OSIRIS-REx

Arecibo Observatory celebrates the launch of OSIRIS-REx, wich aims to bring a sample of an asteroid back to Earth.  For…

NSF grants award to RUM

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $4 million grant to the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez to research and…

UPR Río Piedras holds first camp on cyber security

The Computational Science Department from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus…

UPR-Arecibo will offer free STEM workshops for teens

The University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR-Arecibo), will offer four summer workshops focused in STEM fields for middle and…

Astronomers detect a quasar of more than 10 trillion grades d

With the help of the Arecibo Observatory, international astronomers recently discovered that the temperature in the center of a…