UPR Mayagüez

A graduate of the Mayagüez Campus of the UPR works on an important initiative against COVID-19

Committed to his country and his alma mater, the engineer José M. Rodríguez, a graduate of the Mayagüez University Campus (RUM…

Retired professor from the Mayagüez Campus of the UPR receives appointment to NOAA

Professor Aurelio Mercado Irizarry, retired from the Department of Marine Sciences of the Mayagüez University Campus (RUM), of…

UPR Mayagüez hosting entrepreneurship conference

To promote entrepreneurship in the university community, the student association Idea Platform of the University of Puerto Rico…

Beca UPRAA/Dominion Power para estudiantes UPR Mayagüez

The Association of University of Puerto Rico Alumni and Friends Abroad (UPRAA) invites you to apply for the UPRAA/Dominion…

Messenger of environmental wisdom

Dr. Jane Goodall recently visited Puerto Rico and offered a talk titled We can't Wait for Environmental Education.   To…

UPR Mayagüez celebrates anniversary of the Industrial Biotechnology Program

The University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez calebrates 20 years of its Industrial Biotechnology Program.   The original…

UPR Mayagüez receives funding to study the Puerto Rico Trench

The University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (RUM) received a grant from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (…

New details of Puerto Rican genetics

A recent study, published in PLoS Genetics by a team that included scientists from the University of Puerto Rico in…

Creating jobs by saving money

Casa Pueblo have designed a plan to alleviate the cost of electric bills in PR using a new technology.    

The millenary journey of a species

Scientists from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez studied the mitochondrial DNA of Caribbean geckos to understand their…

Four decades of the UPR Mayagüez Planetarium's

The Planetarium at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez opened its doors in 1973 and has served close to half a million…

Greetchen Díaz: ponceña even in the moon

Greetchen Díaz-Muñoz, is a scientist postdoc associate that studies HPV at Nebraska University and also volunters at Ciencia…