The National Science Foundation’s Innovation-Corps Site based at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus is looking for researchers, engineers, scientists, and general entrepreneurs who have research-based technology, product ideas, or technology applications and want to evaluate the potential to go commercial. The goal is to help them lock down entrepreneurial skills through training in the […]
The University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (known as RUM) recently received a $750,000 grant from the Puerto Rico Agriculture Department to develop Tropical Animal Reproduction Research Center (CIRAT, in Spanish), under the School of Agricultural Sciences’ Agricultural Experimental Station. The Center, an idea created by a group of multidisciplinary researchers from the School of […]
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced it is awarding a $300,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus to boost its capacity to support regional economic development strategies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “This investment comes at a crucial time to help Puerto Rico’s […]
The University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus (known as the RUM in Spanish) will receive $750,000 in grant funding over three years to participate as a member of the National Institute for Congestion Reduction, a project led by the University of South Florida, it announced. The Florida college received a $7.5 million grant from the […]
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 NSF Innovation Corps-Site at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus is looking for scientists and engineers who aspire to develop their projects and business ideas to participate in its second entrepreneurial cohort slated for Sept. 13, 14, 21 and 28. The chief researchers of the initiative announced that the deadline to apply is Aug. […]
The Café Bistro Hacienda Lealtad, a food and beverage concession, opened at the School of Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus, school officials announced. The lease agreement provides income to the college, while covering a need for people who work and study in that building, whose location is far from food […]
Infotech Aerospace Services (IAS) and the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez announced Thursday the creation of an Aerospace Center through a $115,000 donation from the company.
University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras and Mayagüez campuses will split more than $1 million in grant money awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to “enhance the ability of these colleges and universities to support underserved students and develop a skilled American work force."
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