Schools
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
San Juan, PR·Public
2 labs on PI Pages. It spends $34M a year on research and awards 90 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 15,593: 11,988 undergraduates, 3,605 graduate
- Postdocs
- 10
- Faculty
- 730 full-time
- Campus
- Mostly full-time, not residential
Labs here
Michael Alvarez
Biomedical Engineering
Develop a scalable, AI-enabled bioreactor platform for growing mesenchymal stem cells (adult stem cells used in therapies) and collecting their extracellular vesicles, small particles cells release.
Elizabeth Dvorsky
Education Research
Design a blueprint, including curriculum structure and system architecture, for a gamified virtual experience that teaches scientific research skills to Spanish-speaking STEM undergraduates.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.
Physical sciences$9M
Outside science$8M
Life sciences$4M
Other sciences$4M
Earth sciences$4M
Engineering$3M