BY SUSANNA SHARPE Pilar Zazueta In 2012, Mexico attained the dubious distinction of becoming the world’s number one consumer of soft drinks, passing previous first-place holder the United States. And although Mexico is no longer in first place (Argentina now claims that title), the increasing … [Read more...] about Faculty and Staff Profiles, Fall 2017
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BY SUSANNA SHARPE Sarah Lopez Migration and home, history and the built environment. The work of Sarah Lopez sits at the confluence of these themes. An assistant professor in the School of Architecture, Lopez studies cultural landscapes, exploring how the history of the built environment also … [Read more...] about Faculty Profiles
Where History, Science, and Coral Reef Conservation Meet: A Case Study from St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
BY CARLOS E. RAMOS-SCHARRÓN Landscape is . . . a land shape, in which the process of shaping is by no means thought of as simply physical. —C. Sauer (The Morphology of Landscape, 1925) For Karl I am still relishing being a fashionable latecomer to the field of geography, particularly to … [Read more...] about Where History, Science, and Coral Reef Conservation Meet: A Case Study from St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
