V2A, a strategic planning and operational development consulting firm with more than 15 years of experience in counseling executive teams from a variety of business sectors, announced the establishment of the Visioneer Scholarship Program. This educational scholarship offers $3,000 to an outstanding university student, combined with an opportunity to be a part of the firm’s […]
The 2019 Virtual Reality Summer Summer Camp, hosted by the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, ended successfully on Aug. 2, benefitting some 200 students from public and private schools. Middle and high-school students, including home-schooled kids, took part in the program split between 39% females and 61% males in the Ponce and San […]
Ciencia Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Vector Control Unit (PRVCU) have teamed up to train scientists and teachers in the design of project-based learning lessons, the nonprofits announced. The collaboration is part of the second year of the “Ciencia al Servicio” program, CienciaPR’s flagship education project. “Ciencia al Servicio” brings together teachers and science, […]
The Inter American University officially broke ground on its new $36.9 million student housing complex, which it will include in its internationalization plan of recruiting students from other countries to offer the opportunity of cultural and social exchange. The new residence hall to be located at the college’s San Juan metro campus, will address the […]
The Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority (known as AFICA for its initials in Spanish) issued $21.6 million in new AFICA bonds to finance the construction and development of a new student housing complex, parking facility, and related facilities at the Inter American University’s San Juan campus. Puerto Rico […]
Scientist, motivational speaker and the inventor of the first email software system, Shiva Ayyadurai, will be on the island this week to participate in the 2nd Clinical Research Summit hosted by the Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation. In an exclusive interview with this media outlet, Ayyadurai — who holds four degrees from the Massachusetts […]
The Inter American University of Puerto Rico in San Germán and the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras were ranked the second and fourth “most affordable Hispanic-Serving Institutions” in the United States in a new report released this week by Student Loan Hero. Student Loan Hero examined tuition and fee data from the 2018-19 […]
Puerto Rico is once again playing host to the third annual Yees Lean, Leadership & Innovation Event, April 8-11 at the Vivo Beach Club in Isla Verde. Young Entrepreneurship Education System, or Yees, is a company dedicated to high impact business education, which together with Toyota Connected and the Navy, will hold workshops for a […]
The Puerto Rico Department of Education unveiled the first of a planned 28 STEM-PBL lab at the Mariano Feliú Balseiro school in Bayamón. The new educational space that will promote among students learning of science, technology, engineering and mathematics through collaborative projects. At the same time, the agency will continue supporting teachers in getting STEM […]
Within the framework of the celebration of the International Women’s Week, and the purpose of promoting the participation of girls and adolescents in the disciplines of STEAM, Microsoft Puerto Rico alongside with the Science, Technology & Research Trust announce the First Microsoft Girls STEAM Challenge. The challenge is aimed at students of public and private […]
The Startup With Purpose Foundation, a nonprofit based in Palo Alto, California, that provides entrepreneurial mindsets and opportunities to youth in underserved regions, announced the start of a new program: Startup With Purpose, Puerto Rico. The foundation has partnered with Saint John’s School in Condado to host the program on the school’s campus from June […]
Integrated services center Vimenti by Boys & Girls Club of Puerto Rico presented the results of its three programmatic areas obtained during its first semester of operation, as well as the center’s impact in the Ernesto Ramos Antonini housing project community. Through its educational program, its social program and its economic development program, Puerto Rico’s […]
Educating for a generation that will have 10 to 15 jobs or careers in their lives and who in five years will have access to jobs that do not exist today is a challenge that universities currently face, Rafael Bras, a noted scholar who currently serves as provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at […]
Ponce Health Sciences University has broken ground on the construction of an $80 million campus and medical research facility, which will be the largest of its kind in Puerto Rico, school officials said. The expansion comes in the wake of the conditional authorization it has received from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education – which […]
As an immediate response to María, CienciaPR activated its network of more than 9,500 members to support the scientific community in Puerto Rico.
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