{"id":64,"date":"2018-07-28T20:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2018-07-28T23:33:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T23:33:53","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VISION<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Department of Physics of UPR-RP aims to become an internationally recognized center for research and education in theoretical and experimental Physics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MISSION<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Department of Physics of UPR-Rio Piedras:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Educates physicists who can help advance the frontiers of Physics and the development of Puerto Rico.<\/li>\n<li>Provides educational experiences for the academic development of all undergraduate science students, which enrich their scientific understanding of the physical world and foster a deep understanding of Physics concepts.<\/li>\n<li>Helps expand the frontiers of science thorough the execution of original theoretical and experimental research.<\/li>\n<li>Provides an academic environment that supports a culture of highly-competitive Physics and physicists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GOALS<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Department of Physics of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, strives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To prepare competitive physicists able to achieve high goals in the field of Physics and other interdisciplinary fields.<\/li>\n<li>To enhance the capacity of all science students to understand and employ universal Physics principles which underlay their particular disciplines.<\/li>\n<li>To increase the number and quality of Physicists committed to research and education in Puerto Rico.<\/li>\n<li>To increase the number and quality of undergraduate majors in Physics studying at the University of Puerto Rico.<\/li>\n<li>To enhance the Department\u2019s research and academic reputation in the national and international Physics communities.<\/li>\n<li>To hire and retain highly competitive research and education faculty members.<\/li>\n<li>To develop state-of-the-art teaching and research infrastructure in Physics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISION The Department of Physics of UPR-RP aims to become an internationally recognized center for research and education in theoretical and experimental Physics. MISSION The Department of Physics of UPR-Rio Piedras: Educates physicists who can help advance the frontiers of Physics and the development of Puerto Rico. Provides educational experiences for the academic development of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/about-us\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}