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11 unusual facts about University of Puerto Rico


Carlos M. Gonzalez

He graduated cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico in 1969, with a bachelor's degree in business administration.

Cayo Santiago

Today, the island serves as a research center for the University of Puerto Rico Caribbean Primate Research Center, the National Institutes of Health, Yale University, and Harvard University.

Dario Maestripieri

Dario Maestripieri conducts research with rhesus macaques at the Caribbean Primate Research Center of the University of Puerto Rico as well as research with human subjects at the University of Chicago.

Darwin's bark spider

According to professor Ingi Agnarsson, director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Puerto Rico, the spider's web occupies a unique biological niche: "They build their web with the orb suspended directly above a river or the water body of a lake, a habitat that no other spider can use".

Fox Observatory

In the late 1960s, Dr. Joseph Dennison Fox, Professor of Astronomy and History, completed his tenure at the University of Puerto Rico, and with his wife Sylvia, retired to North Miami.

Puerto Rico Zoological Society

The Puerto Rico Zoological Society was founded by Dr. Juan A. Rivero, a professor of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

Roy Bryce-Laporte

Bryce-Laporte attended the University of Panama, earning an associate's degree, before earning bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and studying at the University of Puerto Rico.

Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Universidad is notable for being the location of the main campus of the University of Puerto Rico, from which it takes its name.

University of Puerto Rico

On October 15, 2010 the University of Puerto Rico was awarded over $25 million from National Science Foundation to support research in nanotechnology.

The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is the state university system of Puerto Rico and a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico.

Zoraida Santiago

Santiago earned her Doctorate Degree in Anthropology and is a professor of Social Sciences in the University of Puerto Rico.


A Quien Pueda Interesar

"Septiembre, Río Piedras" is derived from several political and ideological struggles that occurred in the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras where civilians were the subject of abuse and attacks by the police.

Angel Martín Taboas

Married to the former Carmen Viola García, he is the father of University of Puerto Rico law professor and former Senator Fernando Martín, the Executive President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP).

Carmelo Delgado Delgado

Delgado enrolled and was accepted in the University of Puerto Rico, where he befriended Puerto Rican poet and Nationalist Juan Antonio Corretjer.

Felton Messina

Felton Messina started practicing Karatedo in 1966, while studying in the University of Puerto Rico, city of Mayagüez, supervised by his first teacher, the Puerto Rican Edwin Hernández in a style called Okinawan Kenpo Karatedo.

Jesús Maria Sanromá

Amongst the many awards and recognitions bestowed upon Sanromá were Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, University of Puerto Rico, University of Miami, St. Peter's College and Boston College.

José Antonio Dávila

In 1918, he enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico and later transferred to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia where he studied medicine, earning his medical degree in 1924; after graduating he established a medical practice there.

José Enrique Arrarás

Back in Puerto Rico, he obtained his L.L.B. law degree (Magna Cum Laude and Valedictorian) at the University of Puerto Rico in 1963, received his Doctor in Civil Law (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 1971.

Miguel Roman

After he graduated from CROEM high school, he attended the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus and, in 2004, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Mona ground iguana

A headstarting program was put into place by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources with cooperation from the IUCN Iguana Specialist Group, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Toledo Zoo, and the University of Puerto Rico in 1999 to aid in the recovery of the Mona ground iguana.

NIPTE

NIPTE’s current membership includes 12 leading schools and colleges of pharmacy and chemical engineering from the following universities: Duquesne University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Connecticut, University of Iowa, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

Ursula Acosta

Corporal Acosta Ronda was honorably discharged from the Army in May 1953 and making use of his G.I. Bill studied chemistry in the University of Puerto Rico at the Mayagüez campus.

Víctor Rivera González

After receiving an Education and later a Law degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Rivera Gonzalez gained experience and reputation working in various law-related fields, including the prosecutor's office, Interpol and NIE (Special Investigations Bureau).