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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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