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Resolution to study if used vegetable oil can be used as vehicle fuel

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The Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved a resolution to study whether vegetable oil used for cooking can be recycled as fueled for government vehicles.

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Research and mentoring programs support chemistry undergrads In Puerto Rico

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Born in the mountainous central region of Puerto Rico, Johary Rivera-Meléndez was inspired to study chemistry through the urging of her high school chemistry teacher in Orocovis. However, after being accepted at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, it was the support she received from her professors that helped her keep that dream alive. “It has not been an easy journey, but I have had amazing people around me who have motivated me to keep on going,” says Rivera-Meléndez, who is pursuing a Ph.D.

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UPR-RUM students won the Texas Instruments Engineering Contest

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Javier R. Rivera Collazo, Jesús R. Torrado Díaz and Eduardo G. Rodríguez Galindo, students at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departament (INEL) at UPR- Mayagüez (RUM), created a system to tune up guitars and won the 3rd place award at the TI Analog Design Contest, 6th edition, sponsored by Texas Instruments (TI).

 

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First Bank fellowship for graduate students

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The graduate association (La Asociación de Graduadas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR)) at UPR and the First Bank Interrnship Program are offering a fellowship for graduate students to complete their doctoral degrees. The application materials can be sedn to:

Vicepresidencia en Asuntos Académicos de la UPR

Administración Central, Jardín Botánico Sur 1187 Flamboyán

San Juan, PR 00926-1117.

 

Or by email: Isabel.mena@upr.edu

 

The deadline is September 6, 2013.

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Scientific Inmersion in Juncos

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A group of students from Juncos, Las Piedras, Gurabo and San Lorenzo participated in a scientific summer program offered by G-Works and sponsored by AMGEN.

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Puerto Rican students observed Perseids meteor shower

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A group of students lead by Professor Oscar Resto (UPR-Physics Department) designed an experiment to capture the Perseids Meteor Shower.

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Searching for a Solution to Coral Bleaching

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Visiting scientist Guillermo Yudowski wants to make sea anemones happy.

Every morning, he arrives at his MBL laboratory and looks into a group of plastic tanks. Inside are samples of Aiptasia pallida, a hardy strain of anemone found in abundance near the University of Puerto Rico, where Yudowski conducts neurobiological research. Happy A. pallida, he says, are “colorful and open”; sad ones are closed and white. The white samples are near death and will only last three to four days in their containers.

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President of the UPR trusts that the NSF suspension will be lifted

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The interim President of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Dr. José Lasalde Dominicci, made assurances today that the institution has met 28 of the 32 requirements in the Corrective Action Plan of the National Science Foundation (NSF), designed to reinstate the funds of that agency to the university. 

The NSF will be visiting the UPR within two weeks.

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UPR to commercialize intellectual property and obtain patents

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The University of Puerto Rico needs to move towards the commercialization of intellectual property and its integration to a knowledge-based economy, as a way to improve its fiscall situation and to contribute to the economic development of Puerto Rico. That was the proposal of interim president Jose Lasalde Dominicci, who also proposed ramping up fundraising for the institution.

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Casa Pueblo publishes an eBook about scientific studies in Vieques

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Researchers from Casa Pueblo have pusblished an eBook compiling 14 years of environmental scientific studies conducted in Vieques after the Marina left.

The eBook will be available in iBooks, ePub, Mobi, Kindle and Nook formats.
 
 
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