FLICKR, PUERTO RICO NATIONAL GUARDUpdate (September 30): Ciencia Puerto Rico, an organization that supports Puerto Rican scientists, is coordinating efforts to aid researchers affected by Hurricane Maria. Scientists can register to offer assistance. The American Society for Cell Biology also has a database of aid offers to those affected by recent hurricanes in the U.S., and a Thomas Jefferson University neuroscientist, Tim Mosca, launched an online list of investigators willing to help. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is giving $2,000 grants to students and researchers affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
The University of Puerto Rico’s 11 campuses are closed due to the devastation after Hurricane Maria, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
“The whole island is without power right now, and the destruction has been catastrophic,” university communications director Joseph Martinez Huarneck, tells the Chronicle. Internet, television, radio, and cell-phone service are unstable, Huarneck adds.
Photos of the campus posted on Twitter show fallen trees littering the quads and pathways.
The university could be closed for a month, the dean of students at the Río Piedras campus Gloria Díaz Urbina tells El Vocero.
The category 4 hurricane made landfall on Wednesday (September 20) and has devastated the island. Crops are razed; pharmaceutical plants are shut down; medical facilities are in bad shape.
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