On May 18, 2018, Isabel E. Pérez Vázquez, defended her thesis titled History and Geography of Mayagüez, a translation from Spanish into English of Mayagüez: temas de su historia y geografía by Fernando Bayrón Toro.
The Thesis Committee, formed by David Auerbach, Ph.D., Jane Ramírez, M.A., and thesis advisor Don Walicek, Ph.D., awarded her thesis the grade bueno.