2011 CLAS Summer Research Reports

Calles statue, PRI headquarters

Marc Badger
Integrative Biology
"
Biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica: A course in tropical ecology"


Hummingbirds in Costa Rica
Bus in Buenos Aires
Bellas Artes metro stop in Santiago.
Onsite with Bryan Cockrell.

Charity Samantha Fitzgerald
Social Welfare
"Rural Community Development: The Challenges and Opportunities of Fair-Trade Coffee Farming in Coto Brus"

Solar drying coffee beans.
Inside a Buenos Aires prison.
An unused market in Quito.

Changes in Costa Rica's health.

Allyson Goldberg
Joint Medical Program
"Exploring the Impact of Medical Tourism in
Costa Rica"

Fishing boats on a ramp constructed for Pan Am seaplanes.

A man works with cacao seedlings.

Daniel Lavelle
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
"A 21st Century Socialist Agriculture?
Peasant-State Dynamics in Venezuela"

Outside a regulated food market in Venezuela.

La Casa de Panchita

Sergio Montero
City and Regional Planning
"Mobilizing Bogotá:
From Urban Dystopia to Global Model of Urbanism"

Bogota's Cyclovia.

A demonstration in Santiago.

Pedro Peterson
City and Regional Planning
“Estatuto Maravilha”: The Statute of the City and Urban Redevelopment Finance in Rio de Janeiro

A neighborhood in Rio.

Robinsonia gayana in its native environment.

Antonia Rivas
Anthropology
“Rapa Nui. The power of Law”

Inauguration of Rapa Nui authorities.

A waste collector in El Jasmin.

Andres Schipani
Political Science
"Left-Wing Governments and the Popular Sectors:
Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide in Latin America"

Training Brazilian students to use the TB assay.

Aidan Tait
Joint Medical Program
"The Role of Human Milk Banking in Promoting Breastfeeding in Rio de Janeiro: Who are the donors, why are they donating, and who is benefitting?"

A mototaxista in Ciudad del Este.

Jennifer Tucker
City and Regional Planning
"Becoming Formal: Street Vending in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay"

Rosalynn Adeline Vega
Anthropology
"A Tale of Two Births:
Transnational Health Care in Multiethnic Mexico"

Midwife listens for fetal heartbeat.

Vivi Tellas' studio.

Sarah Weber
Latin American Studies
"'We are not alone': International Networking of Guatemalan Indigenous Groups"

A mural to the CUC's martyrs.

A turquoise crania from Monte Alban.

Julie K. Wesp
Anthropology
"Cultures and Networks in Oaxaca"

 

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