The University of the Republic is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America and the world's 57th largest by enrollment, with a student body of 137,757 undergraduate students in 2018 and 6,351 postgraduate students in 2012. It was founded on 18 July 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current rector is Rodrigo Arim.
The National University of Tucumán is an Argentine national university located in Tucumán Province and the largest in Argentina's northwest region. Founded on 25 May 1914 in San Miguel de Tucumán, access to the university is unrestricted and free of charge.
The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Dominican Republic is a government institution that regulates higher education in the country as well as research, grants and technology.
The Mexican Space Agency is the national space agency of Mexico, established in July 2010. The agency does not have infrastructure, and aims to promote and coordinate education, research and development of the space-related activities that are performed in the country.
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) is a private institution that provides on-campus and continuing education programmes. There are 23 Bachelor's degrees on the Loja campus and 20 continuing education programmes.
Thomas F. Glick is an American academic who taught in the departments of history and gastronomy at Boston University from 1972 to 2012. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1995. He has also been the director of the Institute for Medieval History at Boston University since 1998. Dr. Glick's course offerings for the history department covered the topics of medieval Spain, medieval science and medieval technology, and the history of modern science. For the gastronomy department he taught a number of classes, including "Readings in Food History" and "Readings in Wine History," and has designed a class on using cookbooks as primary resources. He is currently the director of the Shtetl Economic History Project and is a corresponding member of Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, an honorary member of Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia, and holds membership in the History of Science Society, the Society for the History of Technology, Sociedad Española de Historia de la Ciencia, Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència, and the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills. He has also authored numerous works pertaining to Spain, medieval history, Darwinism and other subjects.
Clodomiro Picado Twight, also known as "Clorito Picado", was a Costa Rican scientist who was internationally recognized for his pioneering research on snake venom and the development of various antivenins. His work on molds was a precursor to the formal discovery of penicillin and resulted in compounds which he used to treat patients at least one year before the re-discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming. He wrote over 115 works, mainly books and monographs.
Universidad Federico Henríquez y Carvajal(UFHEC) is a private university located in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
The Reverend Donald Dungan Dod, was an American missionary and orchidologist.
Latindex is a bibliographical information system available for free consultation. Established as a network in 1997, the project is based on the cooperation of 17 national resource centers that operate in a coordinated scheme for the gathering and dissemination of relevant information and data on the Iberoamerican journals.
Carlos E. Carrillo Velasquez was a Peruvian educator, prison administrator, and bibliophile. Carrillo Velasquez amassed one of the largest, most comprehensive book collections on the history of late 19th and early 20th century Peruvian publishing.
In Spain, the national 2011 "Ley de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación" requires open access publishing for research that has been produced with public funding. The first peer-reviewed open access Spanish journal, Relieve, began in 1995. Publishers CSIC Press and Hipatia Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
The Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) is an independent nonprofit organization in Spain that promotes Spanish science and technology. It formed in 2001, and receives funding from the national Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
The Spanish language is used in diverse areas of science and technology. However, despite its large number of speakers, the Spanish language does not feature prominently in scientific writing, with the exception of the humanities. One estimate puts the percentage of Spanish language publications in natural sciences and technology as 0.5% of the world total, a low number in view of the fact that Spanish is often considered to rank second or third among languages in various other metrics and estimates. In the humanities a similar estimate yields 2.81%.
The second government of José María Aznar was formed on 28 April 2000, following the latter's election as Prime Minister of Spain by the Congress of Deputies on 26 April and his swearing-in on 27 April, as a result of the People's Party (PP) emerging as the largest parliamentary force at the 2000 Spanish general election. It succeeded the first Aznar government and was the Government of Spain from 28 April 2000 to 18 April 2004, a total of 1,451 days, or 3 years, 11 months and 21 days.
Jenara Vicenta Arnal Yarza, was the first woman to hold a Ph.D. in Chemistry in Spain. She was noted for her work in electrochemistry and her research into the formation of fluorine from potassium biflouride. In later years, she was recognized for her contribution to the pedagogy of teaching science on the elementary and secondary levels, with a focus on the practical uses of chemistry in daily life. She was awarded a national honor, the Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio.
The Dominican College of Psychologists, known as Colegio Dominicano de Psicólogos or CODOPSI is the institution that regulates the practice of Psychology in the Dominican Republic.
Jeannette Miller - Jeannette de los Ángeles Miller Rivas - is a writer, poet, narrator essayist and art historian of Dominican art. She was awarded the National Literature prize from her country in 2011.
