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“VILLAS PESQUERAS” – A documentary film by Claudia Crespo

  • December 28, 2022
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The Architectural graduate student of UPRRP Claudia Crespo, wrote and produced a short documentary film titled “Villas Pesqueras”, which composed the research and theoretical arguments for her master’s dissertation: “Villas Pesqueras of Puerto Rico: Documenting the Coastal Culture from the Architectural Discourse”. Her thesis argues that ‘Villas Pesqueras’ and fishers are crucial pieces for the […]

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Article based on Lorraine Vélez Torres’s doctoral thesis is published in the PeerJ journal

  • March 25, 2022
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An article titled: Hurricane María drives increased indoor proliferation of filamentous fungi in San Juan, Puerto Rico: a two-year culture-based approach, was just published in the PeerJ journal, as announced by the RCMI Center for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities. The article is based on the doctoral thesis of Lorraine Vélez Torres, a Ph.D. candidate from […]

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Isabella Hillman wins architecture prize for her Bio-school in Guánica

  • November 1, 2021
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While searching for sustainable alternatives for solving the shortage of schools in the municipality of Guánica, the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Architecture (UPR) alum found inspiration in biomimetics. More specifically, she was inspired by the woodpecker and the sea urchin when designing a sustainable school, this as a part of her master’s thesis. […]

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