The National Science Foundation awarded a $552,529 research grant for work at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico’s Aguadilla Campus, the college announced. The initiative will create the Host-Virus Evolutionary Dynamics Institute and together with its researchers, it aims to establish fundamental rules of life, or Laws of Virology, which govern the interactions and mechanisms […]
The National Science Foundation has granted $925,000 in grant funding to Puerto Rican company Impactivo, LLC, through its Small Business Innovation Research program. It is the only grant of its kind the NSF awarded for digital health in Puerto Rico. The company has received funding to develop technology that improves chronic disease management and teamwork […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted $100,000 to the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, for its “Recruiting, Retaining, and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Career,” known as Engineering PEARLS. The funding will enable the project, now in its second year, to expand its scholarship base and […]