Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón announced Tuesday awards adding up to more than $4.7 million for research on cerebral cancer at Caribbean Central University and for two research projects on evolutionary biology at the University of Puerto Rico.
Some 54 students from the University of Puerto Rico system received the El Mesón Sandwiches Scholarship, awarded by the Puerto Rican food chain to support university students with limited financial resources and high academic achievement.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico meet Wednesday with student representatives of the University of Puerto Rico’s 11 regional campuses, in addition to the Plastic Arts and Design Schools and the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, to discuss the public university system’s fiscal situation.
The McConnell Valdés/Antonio Escudero-Viera Scholarship Program, created by the McConnell Valdés LLC law firm as part of the firm’s 70th anniversary celebration, awarded its first scholarship.
Moody’s Investor Service on Monday said the proposed $450 million in cuts to the University of Puerto Rico over the next three fiscal years are “credit negative because they will be very difficult for the university to absorb.”
Johnson & Johnson announced scholarships to 50 nursing students at the University of Puerto Rico as part of a social impact program designed to build capacity in the health system.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday it has granted more than $1.6 million to the University of Puerto Rico.
Comprehensive Pharmacy Services, a provider of pharmacy management services, named Hospital UPR “2016 Site of the Year” for outstanding pharmacy performance.
The research for new diagnostic methods and therapy for endometriosis, the development of genetic tools to assist in the preservation of the bees and new methods to mitigate problems of coastal erosion are some of the projects of the new group of Grantees of the Science & Technology Grants Program, of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust.
The construction of the University of Puerto Rico’s Comprehensive Cancer Center Hospital is nearing the home stretch, with more than 85 percent of it already completed and a target end date of October.
The University of Puerto Rico’s Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC) will inaugurate its new $15 million Radiotherapy Center in November, featuring the most modern technology available in Puerto Rico for radio-oncology treatments.
The University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez and Ahkeo Holdings LLC, a Puerto Rico based conglomerate focused on renewable energy solutions, recently partnered to establish the island’s first Microgrid Power System Laboratory to develop electrical redistribution options that can either run independently of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and within the network connection, if necessary.
The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao and its School of Business Administration will be offering free services to taxpayers needing to fill out their 2014 returns, the college announced Monday.
The University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla announced Tuesday it will be offering free help to low and middle-class residents to fill their federal income tax return, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the campus library through April 11.
In an effort to help prepare college students with the skills needed to succeed in the 21st century, Microsoft Puerto Rico, in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico, announced Tuesday the launch of "Student Advantage," a program through which 107,500 UPR students, teachers and non-teaching staff of the system will have access to the Office 365 platform for education, free of charge.
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