The Costa Rican pianist, Jose Pablo Quesada, will participate in the XV Latin American Music Festival to be held in Caracas, Venezuela.

The activity will take place from May 16 to the 25 at the La Estancia Art Center in the Venezuelan capital.

Quesada has the opportunity to present himself as a soloist this year in the premiere of the work Concerto No.1, by the Guatemalan composer, Dieter Lehnhoff.

Jose Pablo has been engaged professionally as a piano player...

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The National University of Costa Rica (UNA by its initials in Spanish) will have a science park donated by China very soon.

A mission from the Asian country, led by the deputy secretary general of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Zheng Guoan, visited the university campus this past June to assess the conditions for the installation of the park.

During the tour, the six Chinese experts visited the laboratories of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Santa Lucia...

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A group of young students from the career of industrial design of the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (ITCR by its initials in Spanish) created shoes from organic products as part of their final projects in their current methods of product development course.

Kristel Villalobos, one of the creators, said that they used organic materials such as jute, cotton and water lily fibers.

As for the design, the university student said, “A friend we have in Spain did us the...

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On March 15 the life of David Alvarado ended. He was only 16 years old, but this young man died after receiving three bullet impacts for defending a friend. The crime occurred at a party that both young people and their friends organized to raise funds for the fifth-year activities at El Rosario high school El Rosario, where they were studying.

“My son was brave and gave his life, without even thinking about it. He died in order to give life to a friend,” Recalled Alvaro Alvarado,...

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The Technological Institute of Costa Rica (ITCR by its initials in Spanish) launched two new majors for 2009. They are in Computer Engineering and Information Technology management.

The opening of these two majors is a response to market demand and looking to meet the needs of technology firms in our country.

The two new majors were created after the execution of a market study by the Costa Rican ITCR and the Coalition of Development Initiatives (INCD by its initials...

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