At the end of the first week in Merida, the students undertook a one-day expedition to explore natural and cultural sites in the state of Yucatan along "La Ruta Puuc". [...]

Twenty Texas A&M University (TAMU) students who were part of this year's Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research program (ELCIR) had the opportunity to attend the TAMU Introduction to Research [...]

The Yucatán Polytechnic University (UPY; Universidad Politénica de Yucatán) just opened its doors in the fall of 2016 and hosted its first educational international program in partnership with Texas A&M [...]

The students embarked on their first research tour of the ELCIR trip as they stopped by the Yucatan Science & Technology Park (PCTY; Parque Cientifico Technológico de Yucatán) to tour different research facilities. According to the PCTY website, "the park is a [...]

Participants of the Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research (ELCIR) program were invited to a welcoming reception on Saturday evening, hosted by the Department of Innovation, Research and Higher Education for [...]

Forty-four Texas A&M Students piled into two open-windowed buses on the first day of the Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research (ELCIR) trip, for a tour of Merida, the capital city [...]

Forty-four freshman engineering students spent two weeks in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, participating in the Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research (ELCIR) Project, an academic program under the umbrella of The Yucatan Initiative Project. The students took an introduction to research course while also [...]