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Recent news items on US-Cuba scientific and academic collaboration,
the right to travel, and Cuban science and technology.
U.S.
Bars Cuban Envoy From University Lecture: The United States has barred
a senior Cuban U.N. envoy from delivering a lecture on "Cuba after Castro''
at a Pennsylvania university, saying the speech was unrelated to his diplomatic
duties. (Reuters, February 26, 2001)
Brigade
to Cuba Gets Lesson in Community Rebuilding: In January, 25 United States
citizens will travel abroad to learn about rebuilding a community in a country
where reconstruction is a way of life. The group will travel to La Guniera,
Cuba, to get hands-on experience in community development and home construction.
Fifteen years ago, a group of women from La Guniera decided to spearhead a restoration
of their community. In 1995, The United Nations called the city, which lies
40 miles outside of Havana, a global model of a community working together to
create a better place to live. (Latino Link, December 4, 2000)
Conservation
Initiatives in Cuba: An report from the Society
for Conservation Biology. In 1994, SCB passed a resolution establishing
the goal of promoting academic and scientific collaboration with Cuba. The objective
was to advance conservation of biodiversity and migratory species in eastern
North America and the Caribbean. Toward this goal, a group of Cuban organizations
and collaborators submitted a bid to host the 2002 SCB annual meeting in Havana.
Although the University of Kent was chosen as host, the SCB Board of Governors
has decided to explore how SCB can collaborate with Cuban conservation scientists
and possibly hold a future annual meeting there. This report includes excerpts
from the Cuban proposal, and is intended to introduce SCB members to conservation
issues in Cuba and the opportunities that exist for conservation and collaboration.
SCB recognizes Cuba's key importance in sustaining the biological diversity
of the Caribbean region. (November, 2000)
Cuba
Agree on Medical Program: It doesn't happen very often, but the United
States and Cuba finally appear to agree on something. U.S. officials said Friday
the State Department is not objecting to a Cuban proposal to provide medical
training to 500 low-income Americans. (By George Gedda, Associated Press, November
18, 2000)
Deep
Secrets: Diving Cuba's Forbidden Depths: Cuba's coastal waters are among
the most biologically mysterious on Earth, enticingly near to our shores and
yet teeming with unique life forms. But event as science has created new ways
to explore unimaginable ocean depths, these waters have remained politically
off-limits. Until now... (Discovery Channel)
Cuba
Offers Health Care Cooperation: Cuban lawmakers on Saturday outlined
an offer to send doctors to poor parts of the United States and to provide free
medical training in Cuba annually to 500 Americans, mostly minorities. (by George
Gedda, AP, September 16, 2000)
Ofrece
Fidel Castro Becas de Medicina para Jovenes de EEUU: El presidente cubano,
Fidel Castro, ofrecio 250 becas anuales gratuitas para que jovenes de familias
humildes estadounidenses estudien medicina en este pais. (Prensa Latina, September
9, 2000 in Spanish only)
Translation: Cuban President Fidel Castro offered 250 free annual
scholarships to disadvantaged American youth to study medicine in Cuba.
Building
Bridges: Developing Academic Relations with Cuban Institutions: This
article examines these and other issues of concern for faculty and administrators
who are interested in developing academic programs on the island.(By Nicholas
Robins, NAFSA: Association for International Educators Newsletter, Summer 2000)
Cuba
Winning Cancer Race: Economic isolation and a passion for healthcare
yield a world lead in genetically engineered medicine (by Julian Borger The
Guardian July 27, 2000)
Harvard
Reaches Out To Forge Links With Cuba: At a time when U.S—Cuban relations
are at best strained and at worst bordering on crisis, a group of Harvard scholars
is working to strengthen educational and cultural ties between the two longtime
adversaries. The group went on a five-day trip to the island nation last week.
(By Doug Gavel, Harvard University
Gazette, April 27, 2000)
Cienfuegos
Botanical Garden: Harvard's Legacy, Cuba's Challenge, A neo tropical 'Garden
of Eden' evolves over centuries: About three-quarters of an hour outside
the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, at the "Pepito Tey" sugar complex, is the Cienfuegos
Botanical Garden. by Dan Hazen, Harvard
University Gazette, April 8, 2000)
Cuba
Launches Plan to Reduce Ozone-Depleting Substances: The Cuban government
launched a program in Havana to help eliminate ozone-depleting substances with
the support of the UN Development Program's Global Environment Facility-GEF.
(May 23 2000)
Cuba
Conference Highlights Botanical Garden Ties: Cuban botanists and historians
avidly exchanged information with their U.S. academic counterparts in a two-day
conference organized by Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies (DRCLAS) and the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden (until 1961, the Harvard
Botanical Garden). (by June Carolyn Erlick Special to the Harvard
University Gazette, December 2, 1999)
Alternative
Nobel Prize Goes to Cuban Group Promoting the Organic Revolution: The
Grupo de Agricultura Organica (GAO), the Cuban organic farming association,
which has been at the forefront of the country's transition from industrial
to organic agriculture, was named as winner of a major international prize-the
Right Livelihood Award-commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize.' (October
6, 1999)
Meningitis
Drug from Cuba: SmithKline Beecham has signed a deal with Cuba's Finlay
Institute giving the Anglo-U.S. drugs group worldwide rights to sell a meningitis
B vaccine developed by the Havana-based group. (July 29 1999)
The
Universality of Science: Editorial for Science by Irving Lerch, Chair
of the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. (March 19 1999)
Adapting
For Survival: Opinion by Robert Brambl, Professor of Plant Biology at
the University of Minnesota featured in the The Scientist. (April 15
1996) (Registration Required to view article.)
Direct
Flights: News article detailing the January 1999 decision to expand
direct charter flights to Cuba from New York and Los Angeles. (August 3, 1999)
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