Latinx Heritage Month 2020

• WPI's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Team invites WPI to the first Great Minds, Brave Spaces event of the 20-21 academic year, celebrating Latinx Heritage Month: Not Your Typical Feminist Cooking Show, September 23, 202, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.  Join on zoom: https://wpi.zoom.us/j/98222770767, and RSVP here.
   
• Get in touch with WPI's SHPE chapter, and read about WPI's Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
   
• Connect with WPI's Hispanic and Caribbean Student Association 
   
• WPI's Office of Multicultural Affairs serves as a home base for students navigating the university experience—especially a challenging STEM path where diversity is essential. Find out more about the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
   
• Read about WPI's Latin American Studies Initiative. 

For work by WPI undergraduates at Caribbean, South and Central American Project Centers, see:

• Asunción, Paraguay Project Center - IQP
• Campinas, Brazil Project Center - MQP
• Cuenca, Ecuador Project Center - IQP
• Monteverde, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP
• Panama City, Panama Project Center - IQP
• Panama City, Panama Project Center - MQP
• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP
• San Juan, Puerto Rico Project Center - IQP

Selected IQPs related to Latinx topics:

• Cardin, Jacqueline Rose, Reed E Nowling, Gracie A Lodge-McIntire, and Justine A Davids. 2020. Flood Resilience Strategies for Cantera, Puerto Rico. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
• Castellani, Stephanie Theresa, Gary Dennis Puglia, and Daniel Avery Reed. 2002. Providing Data Analysis to an Urban Grocery Store to Be Used In Determining Effective Marketing Strategies. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Erazo, Marisol Sanabria, and Anthony Nuñez. 2007. Latino Voices of Worcester, Ma. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Lynskey, Gregory E. 2007. Assist the Police with Spanish Speaking Citizens. Worcester: Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Marquez, Kyle M., Kayla S Krom, and Derek T Byrne. 2020. Walking In Worcester: Nutrition and Fitness Resources for the Latino Community. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Moran, Dave P., Kate M Pilotte, Mark Jason Stanton, and Christopher Charles Hill. 2001. The Development of a Virtual Education Community. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
• Perez-Torres, Carlos Jose. 2006. Limited English Proficient Patients. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Sangillo, Emily P., and Michael A Sangillo. 2007. Latino Voices of Worcester. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Twomey, Brian M, and Andrew John McIsaac. 2005. Worcester Latino Roundtable Committee Video Life Stories Project. Worcester: Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

WPI-affiliated faculty in bold.  These are just a few of the publications by WPI faculty reflecting their work on Latinx issues and culture.

• San Martin, W.  2017. “Nitrogen, Science, and Environmental Change: The Politics of the Green Revolution in Chile and the Global Nitrogen Challenge,” Javiera Barandiarán and Casey Walsh (eds.) “Production/Destruction in Latin America,” Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 24: 777-796.
• Madan, Aarti Smith. 2017 Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative : National Territory, National Literature . Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Allessio, D., B. Woolf, N. Wixon, F. R. Sullivan, M. Tai, and I. Arroyo. 2018. Ella Me Ayudó (She Helped Me): Supporting Hispanic and English Language Learners in a Math ITS. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 10948 LNAI. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_5.
• Santos, H. P., B. C. Nephew, A. Bhattacharya, X. Tan, L. Smith, R. A. S. Alyamani, E. M. Martin, K. Perreira, R. C. Fry, and C. Murgatroyd. 2018. "Discrimination Exposure and DNA Methylation of Stress-Related Genes in Latina Mothers." Psychoneuroendocrinology 98: 131-138. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.08.014.
• Galante, J. 2016. "The 'Great War' in Il Plata: Italian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and Montevideo during World War I," Journal of Migration History.
• Elgert, L. 2016. 'More soy on fewer farms' in Paraguay: challenging neoliberal agriculture's claims to sustainability. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Soy Production in South America: Globalization and New Agroindustrial Landscapes, 2016-03-03, Vol.43 (2), p.537-561
• Getz, L. M., S. Barton, and M. Kubovy. 2014. "The Specificity of Expertise: For Whom is the Clave Pattern the "Key" to Salsa Music?" Acta Psychologica 152: 56-66. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.005. 

• San Martin, W., 2013.  “From Object and Subject. Slavery, Legal Personality, and the Blurring of Servitude in Late Colonial Chile,” [“De objeto y sujeto. Esclavitud, personalidad legal y la decoloración de lo servil en Chile tardo colonial”] in Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Vol. 17, N 2.

• Kidwell, R. E., F. Hoy, and S. Ibarreche. 2012. ""Ethnic" Family Business Or just Family Business? Human Resource Practices in the Ethnic Family Firm." Journal of Family Business Strategy 3 (1): 12-17. doi:10.1016/j.jfbs.2012.01.004. 

• Kurlanska, C. 2010. Latino women's spiritual beliefs related to health. Jurkowski, Janine M, Kurlanska, Courtney; Ramos, Blanca M.  American Journal of Health Promotion, 2010-09, Vol.25 (1), p.19-25
• Bradley-Geist, J. C., E. B. King, J. Skorinko, M. R. Hebl, and C. McKenna. 2010. "Moral Credentialing by Association: The Importance of Choice and Relationship Closeness." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 36 (11): 1564-1575. doi:10.1177/0146167210385920.
• Rivera, A. 1998. Puerto Rico on the Borders: Cultures of Survival or the Survival of Culture. Latin American Literary Review XXVI 31-46.