U.S. Dept. of Commerce awards $1.1M grant to University of Puerto Rico
April 10, 2020
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million grant to the University of Puerto Rico to hire three Disaster Recovery Coordinators to execute disaster recovery efforts throughout the entire Commonwealth. The project, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act designated Opportunity Zone, will be matched with […]
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UPR signs agreement to spur technological development
February 24, 2020
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 […]
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3 major universities outline academic schedules post-earthquakes
January 9, 2020
Puerto Rico’s three largest universities announced their plans for upcoming administrative and academic activities, following this week’s earthquakes. University of Puerto Rico President Jorge Haddock said the Mayagüez, Aguadilla, Cayey, Humacao, Carolina, Ponce and Utuado campuses will not restart its schedule as planned today, as the institution awaits the final recommendation from structural engineers who […]
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NEON intern program in P.R. aims to build next generation of scientists
October 3, 2019
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 […]
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3rd McConnell Valdés/Antonio Escudero-Viera Scholarship awarded
October 1, 2019
The McConnell Valdés/Antonio Escudero-Viera Scholarship Program awarded its third scholarship to Gerardo G. Cintrón-Rosario, a second-year University of Puerto Rico Law School student. He is a full-time student who is also pursuing a master’s degree from the UPR’s School of Public Administration. He is also the executive director of the school’s Business Law Journal. Like […]
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FirstBank, ENLACE program inaugurate ‘El Outfit’ at University of P.R.
September 13, 2019
As an initiative to contribute to the professional development of undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, FirstBank in alliance with its School of Business Administration’s ENLACE Program, inaugurated “El Outfit.” The 500-square-foot space on the fifth floor of the Ana María O’Neill building is a boutique featuring professional […]
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UPR professor gets $3M grant to develop new tech for future NASA missions
September 6, 2019
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 […]
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UPR, Inter American Univ. ranked as ‘most affordable’ Hispanic-serving colleges
April 17, 2019
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 […]
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UPR’s Dr. Federico Trilla Hospital running 5 parallel scientific projects
March 19, 2019
The Office of Clinical Research and Community Health of the University of Puerto Rico’s Dr. Federico Trilla Hospital in Carolina, is simultaneously running five scientific research projects, said Dr. Enid J. García Rivera, director of the UPR Medical Sciences Campus’ Dotal Center for Health Services Research (known as CDISS in Spanish.) “Our scientific activity needs […]
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Rock Solid Technologies awards 4 scholarships to UPR students
September 28, 2018
Rock Solid Technologies announced the winners of its 17th annual scholarship program, who are all University of Puerto Rico students who will each receive $3,000 to cover one year’s tuition.
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Analysis: UPR’s future grim, as reality of fewer students, less money catches up
September 26, 2018
The ongoing fiscal crisis is just the last straw on a long process of deterioration as debt restructuring stands now to override — for some time —any other consideration.
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U.S. Dept. of Commerce invests $4.9M to support projects in P.R.
August 16, 2018
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration is awarding $4.9 million in grants to companies throughout Puerto Rico, to support technology startups and manufacturing,
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Budget cuts threaten shutdown of ‘Díalogo,’ UPR’s official news outlet
June 15, 2018
Journalists, editors, photographers, and students who work at “Diálogo,” the University of Puerto Rico’s official news outlet blasted the decision announced by UPR Interim President, Darrel Hillman, to push for “a new organization model” for the publication.
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Georgia Tech offers temporary office space to P.R. entrepreneurs
January 17, 2018
The Georgia Institute of Technology will offer more than 2,000 square feet of office space — for a four-month period beginning in February 2018 — to entrepreneurs and innovators from Puerto Rico, who are still reeling from the devastating effects of Hurricane María, the university announced.
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Ag-Biotech Industry, UPR partner to benefit agronomists
April 6, 2016
As Puerto Rico finds itself in the midst of furthering its role in the knowledge economy on a large scale, the Puerto Rico Agricultural Biotechnology Industry Association (PRABIA) and the Mayagüez campus of the University of Puerto Rico signed Tuesday a collaboration agreement that will benefit the agronomists that graduate each year.
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