Creating a chemistry pathway from Puerto Rico

Published November 20, 2022

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profiles Luis A. Colón, who has recruited at least 70 students over from his alma mater, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Puerto Rico in Cayey, to conduct summer research at UB. Former students and colleagues have expanded that effort, creating a supportive chemistry community. “We hear a lot of ‘diversity and inclusion,’ ‘diversity and inclusion,’ but that’s sometimes the equivalent of ‘thoughts and prayers,’ ” says Nahyr A. López Dauphin, a fifth-year graduate student in Colón’s lab who originally came as a UPR-Cayey undergraduate. “But he’s actually walking the walk.” “All I felt coming here was I was with a family,” says UB alum Luis R. De Jesús Báez, an assistant professor of chemistry at UB. “I want to keep propagating that.” 

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