Primavera otoño 2020 (Año LXIII Núms. 122-123)

horizontes@pucpr.edu Año LXIV Núm. 124-125 horizontes PRIMAVERA / OTOÑO 2021 PUCPR 108 continue educational studies in genetics and microbiology. Laboy Gonzalez, Dargelee Joyce Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, she did her primary and secondary studies in San German, PR. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology from the Inter- American University of Puerto Rico, San German Campus. She is currently studying for a Master's Degree in Biotechnology at the Pontificical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. López O'Conner, Jermaine He was born on October 9, 1998, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He completed all his primary and secondary school in Ponce. After graduating from high school in 2016, he began studying mechanical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus. After a year, he transferred to the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, where he studied for a degree in Biomedical Sciences, graduating in May 2020. He began a master's degree in the Integrated and Applied Neuroscience Program with a concentration in Clinical Neuroscience. He is interested in how visual learning and perception affect sensory and motor skills performance. Maldonado Colón, Margarita Nació en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Aunque pertenece a la generación del 70, publicó tardíamente con mucho éxito su novela El umbral del tiempo (2005, premio de novela del Pen Club de Puerto Rico. Además, ha publicado El envés de la frontera (2008) y El libro de la noche (2019). su cuento "El primer día de la historia" obtuvo el premio del Ateneo Puertorriqueño (1999). Maldonado Colón es una dedicada intelectual. Su tesis de maestría del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Puerto Rico sobre Manuel Zeno Gandía: Garduña : el mundo del azúcar y el drama de una confrontación; estudio sociológico (1993), recibió elogios de su comité evaluador. Mercado Rivera, José Luis A US Army war veteran, studied agricultural sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, and completed a master’s degree in biotechnology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico. He works as a micropropagation specialist at the at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico en el Centro de Enseñanza y Investigación en Biotecnología y Agrobiotecnología ( CEIBA).