Dr. Luis von Ahn

Dr. Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and software developer and is currently serving as the CEO of the language learning company, Duolingo.
Luis Federico Leloir, MD

Dr. Luis Federico Leloir was a biochemist and he was the third Argentinian to win a Nobel Prize. He discovered sugar nucleotides and their role in metabolism and energy storage.
Helen Rodriguez-Trias, MD

Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias was a physician, public health expert, women’s rights activist, and the first Latina leader of the American Public Health Association. She used the experiences of bias and racism that she observed to drive her activism in women’s health and helping disadvantaged populations.
José Celso Barbosa, MD

Dr. José Barbosa was the first Afro-Puerto Rican to obtain a MD in the US and was considered the “Father of Puerto Rico Statehood Movement’. He served the poor, taught medicine, created a collective, and established a healthcare insurance program.
Major Fernando Emilio Rodríguez Vargas, DDS

Fernando Emilio Rodríguez Vargas was born on February 24th, 1888, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico and traveled daily to Ponce for his early education. He received his Teaching Certificate at the University of Puerto Rico, before working at the IRS an inspector, and then the US War Department as a translator. He obtained his DDS (1913) […]
Severo Ochoa, MD

Severo Ochoa (1905-1993) was a biochemist that was born in Laurca, Spain. His interest in biology was sparked by Spanish Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal through his studies on the structure of the nervous system. He obtained his Medical Degree with honors (1929) from the University of Madrid. During this time he worked on the isolation […]
Anabella Villalobos, PhD

Dr. Anabella Villalobos is a medicinal chemist and currently a Senior Vice President, Biotherapeutics & Medicinal Sciences at Biogen. Born and raised in Panama, she found her spark and excitement for chemistry in a high school organic chemistry class. She obtained her BS (1981) in Chemistry from the University of Panama. She obtained a MS […]
Scarlin Hernandez

Scarlin Hernandez is a Dominican-American astronautical engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. She was born in the Dominican Republic, then moved to Brooklyn, NY at the age of 4. She earned her BS in Computer Engineering from Capitol Technology University (CTU) in Laurel, MD. Her undergraduate studies were funded by a full scholarship from […]
Pedro A. Sanchez, PhD

Dr. Pedro A. Sanchez was born in Cuba and grew to have an immediate attachment to soil as he said he would “play with dirt” when he was younger. As his family owned a fertilizer-blending business they encouraged his pursuits. Pedro obtained a BS (1962), MS, and PhD (1968) in Soil Sciences at Cornell University, […]
Eugene Cota-Robles, PhD

Dr. Eugene V. Cota-Robles was born on July 13, 1926 in Nogales, Arizona, to Mexican immigrant school teachers from Pueblo Nuevo, Sonora, Mexico. In 1944 he enlisted for the U.S. Navy, serving as a signalman aboard the U.S.S. Baltimore during World War II. After being discharged he received his BS (1950) in Bacteriology from the […]