Sharing Scientific and Career Development Thoughts with Students of the UPR-Ponce Campus

Recently shared some thoughts with students of the UPR-PRISE Program

During this past week (January 24th and 26th, 2019), the UPR-PRISE (University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus’s Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement) invited me to share some scientific and career thoughts with the students of the program.

On Januarty 24th, 2019, I presented a seminar addressing how data analytics can be implemented into different aspects of Biomedical Scientific Research, as well as in Biomedical Sciences coursework (see the below). In this seminar, I shared with the audience how data analytics can bring-to-life findings that may not be able to be identified if data is not thoroughly analyzed beyond the laboratory setting.

In a follow up to the seminar shown above, on January 26th, 2019 I delivered a hands-on workshop to introduce students in the epicycles of data analytics and programming approaches to carry out data analytics (see below). Among the learning goals of the workshop included being concious about the different stages within data analytics and how the epicycle within each stage work, depends on previous cycles, and prepare the stage for the following data analytic stages.

I am veery grateful of the UPR-PRISE program administrative team, including Dr. Edu Suárez-Martínez (the program director, with whom I collaborate), Wendy Pacheco (program coordinator), Geraline Trossi Torres (research coordinator), and Edward Garcia Febles (program webmaster). Without the effort of these dedicated colleagues, the seminar nor the workshop would not have been possible. Also, we would like to thank the students in the UPR-PRISE program for being receptive to our thoughts – Dr. Rivera-Mariani witnessed prospective scientists-in-the-making! We would also like to thank Dr. Abigail Ruiz and Dr. Fernando Piñero for sharing their thoughts for prospective collaborations in the near future.