By The Star Staff
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón congratulated each of the recipients of the new approval of federal funds totaling $18,073,380, which allow the expansion of resources for education in the fields of science, medicine, humanities and recycling.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) approved $4.2 million for the UPR-UW PREM, or the Center for the Advancement of Research and Training for Success in STEM, at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Mayagüez Campus, which brings together researchers from the UPR in Mayagüez, the UPR Medical Sciences Campus in Río Piedras, and the Materials Science and Engineering Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The UPR-UW PREM’s goal is to create a sustainable, intercultural and multidisciplinary research ecosystem that allows for greater participation of the historically underrepresented population in materials research and contributes to strengthening the STEM workforce.
The NSF also approved $4.2 million for the project titled “Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energetic Materials (CIE2M): Advancing the PREM Pathway in Puerto Rico -- Nanomaterials for Sustainable Renewable Energy” at the UPR Río Piedras campus.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), meanwhile, is granting $142,419 to UPR under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program, with the funds seeking to develop capacity-building workshops on digital collection management, among others.
The Metropolitan Library Consortium will conduct a digital preservation needs assessment for public libraries and municipal archives in the metropolitan area of Puerto Rico using the Coalition for Digital Preservation’s Rapid Assessment Model. The project will develop and implement a bilingual, free-to-use online database to make data accessible to the public. ThE initiative will receive $118,334 from the IMLS.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $4,728,798 through the Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to the Ponce School of Medicine for its Specialized Center on Health Disparities, which seeks to establish strategies to prevent or reduce the incidence of health disparities in society, and particularly in disadvantaged communities.
The HHS’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded $249,951 to UPR-Río Piedras to improve biomedical education and research through the acquisition of an electronic paramagnetic resonance instrument.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, meanwhile, approved $4 million for the municipality of Trujillo Alto to improve its recycling program.
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