44th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM) & 59th ACS Junior Technical Meeting will take place on April 18, 2026. PRISM & JTM are the Island’s largest annual scientific forum for undergraduate and graduate STEM students to present their research projects to peers and faculty members.
The PRISM/JTM provides vertical integration of the educational pipeline by bringing together secondary school students and teachers, undergraduate and graduate students from all STEM disciplines at major institutions of higher education in Puerto Rico. Participants are encouraged to cross-disciplinary lines by attending presentations and posters from other disciplines.
Poster Presenters and Oral Speakers need to register online.
Registration Deadline: March 18th, 2026
(this registration is required only for students presenting at the event)
Important Links:
- Poster and Oral Speaker Registration login to the PR-LSAMP profile and register (click here to login)
- Graduate students:
- Poster Size: Width: 3’ x Length: 4’.
- Undergraduate and Pre-College students: Oral Presentation Instructions
- Students will have a total of 10 minutes for their presentation and 5 minutes afterward for questions and answers.
Invited Plenary Speaker:
Ricardo Javier Vázquez
Ricardo Javier Vázquez, an emerging scientist from Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the guidance of Professor Theodore Goodson III. His research leveraged time-resolved spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to investigate fundamental properties of organic optoelectronic materials. Following his Ph.D., Ricardo conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Guillermo C. Bazan at the National University of Singapore, focusing on water-soluble organic optoelectronic materials for bioimaging and energy applications.
Now in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington, Ricardo’s independent research program bridges organic materials and measurement science to address challenges in quantum addressability, precision life sciences, optoelectronics, and bioelectronics. In his early independent career, Ricardo has received funding to help establish an NSF Center of Chemical Innovation focused on nanomaterials development (named CSENND) and has been awarded the prestigious National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA).