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Vanessa Rivera-Quiñones received her bachelor’s (B.S.) degree in Mathematics with a Minor in Finance from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras in 2013. At Río Piedras she was awarded the “Francisco Garriga Award” (Most Distinguished Mathematics Student). Vanessa has a master’s (M.S., in 2016) degree in Applied Mathematics and a doctoral (Ph.D., in 2019) degree in Mathematics both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation “Mathematical Models of Daphnia Epidemics” under the supervision of Zoi Rapti. Vanessa’s main research interests include adaptive dynamics, mathematical modeling and ordinary and partial differential equations. She has…

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The following excerpt was taken from the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) website: Dr. Irizarry received his bachelor’s in mathematics in 1993 from the University of Puerto Rico and went on to receive a Ph.D. in statistics in 1998 from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis work was on Statistical Models for Music Sound Signals. He joined the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics in the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2007. For the past ten years, Dr. Irizarry’s work has focused on Genomics and Computational Biology problems. In particular, he…

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By Axel R. Nevárez Ayala Communications Office Río Piedras Campus – UPR The “Riopedrense” campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) opened its doors to more than 5,000 high school students from the public and private system throughout Puerto Rico in its Open House held on November 6 and 7. This event, which receives a considerable number of students, is aimed at guiding new entrants on the admission process for the next academic year and publicizing the different offers that the university institution has. The orientation day began at the UPR Theater where students received a warm welcome from…

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The NASA Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) in collaboration with the Office of Procurement (OP), Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the University of Puerto Rico System hosted the NASA HBCU/MSI Technology Infusion Road Tour at the University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras. This collaboration provides an open platform for HBCU and MSI representatives to learn about OSTEM’s Minority Serving Institutions Sustainability Initiative, Agency acquisition opportunities, product service lines and Vendor Database, STMD’s Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) opportunities, as well as SMD’s science research opportunities, grants, fellowships and contracts. Our graduate…

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