Puerto Rico universities grapple with future after Hurricane Maria | Cronkite News
Without researchers or funds, Puerto Rico universities grapple with future after Hurricane Maria
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Seven months after Hurricane Maria tore through this island, some of the equipment in neuroscience researcher Manuel Diaz Rios’ lab still is being repaired and replaced.
But more noticeably, Diaz is missing something else – his two Ph.D. students. After the storm, they decided to complete their studies and thesis projects at universities on the mainland.
“At the end of the
