This research aims to transform water purification in space environments. #NewsismyBusiness
The project is a collaboration among NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Purdue University, and Engine-4 Foundation in Bayamón. #NewsismyBusiness
Both students aspire to pursue MD/PhD programs integrating medicine and research. #NewsismyBusiness
This third cohort brings the total number of projects funded to 44 teams at 36 academic institutions in 21 U.S. states and territories. #NewsismyBusiness
The agency hasn’t picked the Quesst mission overflight locations for which the schools will develop education plans. #NewsismyBusiness
The Puerto Rico chapter of the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) will be receiving $1 million over the next five years from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). EPSCoR is a part of NASA’s Office of Stem Engagement and based out of the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which supports science […]
Puerto Rican undergraduate students majoring in electrical, mechanical, computer, agricultural, or industrial engineering, as well as computer science, have until Feb. 28 to apply to participate in the “Challenge to Innovate: NASA Edition” competition. The initiative will give participants a workspace to build solutions with NASA technologies. The program is sponsored by pre-acceleration program pre18 […]
Puerto Rican undergraduate students majoring in electrical, mechanical, computer, agricultural, or industrial engineering, as well as computer science, will have the opportunity to participate in the “Challenge to Innovate: NASA Edition” competition. The initiative of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust’s pre18 program and its Technology Transfer Office, together with Engine-4, will offer […]
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 […]
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) […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will soon put in orbit a small satellite dubbed “CINEMA,” developed by a group of eight Puerto Rican engineering students in collaboration with engineers and scientists from the University of California at Berkeley.
The Puerto Rico Institute of Robotics, a local nonprofit dedicated to sparking the interest and knowledge among students in the disciplines of science, math, engineering, and technology, has been chosen among nine organizations that will partner with NASA this summer to help the agency implement its 2011 “Summer of Innovation” education program.
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