April 4, 2019. Institute students and faculty from our NSF CREST Center for Environmental Neuroscience and the NSF Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) program met with Dr. France A. Córdova, Director of the National Science Foundation and Dr. Jorge Haddock Acevedo, President of the University of Puerto Rico. The group discussed NSF support of research and STEM training at the UPR.