During September of 2010 the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus, hosted the exhibition called “THE EARTH: A HUMAN HABITAT”. This activity presented the exceptional features of our planet using multiple posters and five lectures. This exhibition has traveled the World and it was prepared by EURESIS (Association to Promote the Scientific Culture and the Scientific Work). EURESIS is a no-profit association of people professionally involved in different branches of science, technology and education as well as in University and Industry Institutions. Locally the exhibition and lectures were organized by Dr. Fabrizio Acciaro from the “Instituto de Doctrina Social de la Iglesia” and sponsored by the Dean of Sciences. The posters were exposed in the main hall of the General Library. The activity started on September 2nd with the opening lecture of Dr. Giorgio Ambrosio, a scientist from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in Batavia, Italy. Dr. Ambrosio is part of EURESIS and was involved in the development of this exhibition. As part of the agenda other local scientists also talked about the physics, geology, chemistry, and biology of the Earth. Dr. Fernando Gilbes was invited to give the lecture titled “Geological Connections of the Earth”. This presentation took place on September 16 of 2010 and presented different topics of geology that are covered by the posters of the exhibition. That day the Vicente Murga Amphitheater was packed of students and teachers from several high schools of Ponce along with students and professors from the university.
