Yadira Soto was informed in February 9 of 2009 that her application for the CNY-PR Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Fellowship was approved. The Central New York to Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (CNY-PR) AGEP program is seeking to expand the existing programs within each institution to the alliance. The CNY-PR alliance goal is to use holistic approaches to substantially increase minority SME Ph.D. degree recipients entering academic positions. The CNY-PR alliance is achieving this goal by providing inter-institutional engaging research experiences for undergraduate and graduate students. Yadira will use the funding from this fellowship to support her thesis research entitle “Quantifying Shoreline Changes In Puerto Rico Using Remote Sensing And Geographic Information Systems”.
