Learning Undefeated, a nonprofit organization that provides life-changing STEM experiences for under-resourced communities, announced that for the first time it will provide mobile STEM lab resources outside the continental United States. Working in partnership with the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust, Learning Undefeated’s will take its MdBioLab to southwestern Puerto Rico, where it […]
Holberton School, a full-stack software development school announced the launch of its 10th location, which will open in Santurce. Holberton’s mission is to empower talented and motivated people to succeed in a software development career, regardless of their economic or socioeconomic background. The school brings a curriculum developed by top experts from Silicon Valley, with […]
United Technologies Corp. and the National Academy Foundation (NAF) announced a multi-million-dollar national partnership to expand NAF Academies of Engineering to Puerto Rico and beyond, the companies announced. The partnership, which entails a $3 million funding commitment over three years, aims to expand NAF’s well-established and successful Academies of Engineering, bringing industry-proven STEM programs to […]
With the interest of providing informal STEM learning activities to children and youth in the most affected areas of the southwest, the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and its STEM Education Program created the initiative, “STEM en tu Pueblo,” with the support of the Angel Ramos Foundation to make it available to educators […]
A year and a half after starting operations at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini housing project, integrated services project Vimenti by Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico presented results from its three program areas: educational, social and economic development. In addition, the organization presented challenges and lessons learned in a study financed by the Walton Family Foundation of three main areas: […]
The University of Puerto Rico recently established a collaboration agreement with the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service to encourage new opportunities for the professional development of students and employees. UPR President Jorge Haddock said the agreement is the first of its kind between the college and PRITS, a government agency headed by Glorimar Ripoll-Balet, that […]
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, in partnership with Engine-4 launched an incubator program for college students centered on the commercialization of NASA’s patented technology. Applications for “Challenge to Innovate: NASA Edition” opened Feb. 18 and will close on Mar. 16, 2020, the nonprofit announced. The initiative is spearheaded by the Trust’s parallel18 […]
National University College has joined the Education Department to offer online courses to help high school students residing in the island’s southern region affected by earthquakes complete their semester. The courses will be offered through NUC’s online division and its IBC Institute Extension Centers. Students who complete online courses with National University College may validate […]
New Fortress Energy awarded a total of $20,000 in scholarships to four engineering students enrolled in the Polytechnic University to continue their studies. Students Bryan A. González-Nieves, Gustavo J. Albelo-Rivera, Josué E. Ortíz-Acevedo and Angelica C. Soto-Pomales will receive a $5,000 scholarship to cover their academic expenses. Students were chosen upon meeting a series of […]
Focusing education on learning, rather than teaching and students rather than curricula, taking into account skills, content and culture are the key to the successful change of the island’s entrepreneurial landscape, two international entrepreneurship and innovation experts agreed during their participation in the seventh “Echar Pa’lante” conference. Luca Iandoli, associate dean for global and online […]
An educational program led by the National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network (known as NEON) is helping students in Puerto Rico hone-in on a specific scientific field by exposing them to a broad array of experiences in the environmental and ecological sciences. Yamil Toro, field operations manager for the NEON’s scientific field sites in […]
The National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities has renewed a $22 million grant to the Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) to be used over the next five years. Funding through the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program (RCMI) has enabled PHSU to establish and develop an advanced investigation infrastructure, university […]
A new tool is now available to monitor the atmospheric phenomena of the season in real time thanks to the Collaboration Portal of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the entities announced. Forecasted storm trajectory, wind speed, expected rain and projected storm surge are some of […]
Following an “arduous selection process” and after competing with more than 50 proposals from different parts of the United States, Eduardo Nicolau, professor at the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Natural Sciences, has received a $3 million grant. The funding is for a project called “Puerto Rico Space Partnership for Research, Innovation and Training […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has just invested $19 million into the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to “gain a lot of knowledge about asteroids.” NASA awarded the University of Central Florida — which manages the site on behalf of National Science Foundation — the four-year grant to observe and characterize near-Earth objects (NEO) […]
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