A necklace of emerald green islands forms a gentle arc at the outer reaches of the Caribbean Sea, proud sentinels guarding the richness and beauty within – delicate ecosystems, wondrous corals, exquisite marine life, and mysteries of past c…
With the rapid pace of the sugar industry showing no abatement during the early years of the nineteenth century, the demand for labor in Cuba far outstripped its supply. Alongside the waning of the transatlantic slave trade, Spanish-owned p…
Havana’s Chinatown—El Barrio Chino de la Habana—is the oldest Chinatown in the Caribbean and is a major tourist draw. It spans approximately 45 square blocks of living quarters, economic ventures, Chinese associations, and plenty of restaur…
At a time when science seems under attack and truth is contested, researchers in Miami are using the discipline to bridge the 90-mile and decades-long gap with scientists in Cuba. The recent re-establishment of diplomatic relations between
When Miami native Erin Kobetz returned to South Florida after earning her Ph.D. in public health, she didn’t know where her new work was going to take her. Hired to lead Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center’s efforts to address health disp…
“Teaching touches a lot of our spiritual aspects and requires a lot of compassion, discipline and respect, which, to me, is something that relates to the spiritual world,” says Dafnis Prieto, a 2011 MacArthur Fellow, and a Grammy and Latin
Proving the value of field research and community input, a report prepared by University of Miami anthropologists, who spent three months assessing the assets available to help Haiti’s devastated southern region recover from Hurricane Matth…
Joan Martinez Evora awoke each Monday morning and dressed in the shadows of the farm before the sun and roosters would greet him. He’d drink milk for breakfast, gather his belongings and begin his hours long journey on foot under the cover
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers are hoping that collaborations with Cuban gastroenterology specialists will provide fresh insights on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in Hisp…
The University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine signed a memorandum of understanding with the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche and INDESALUD (the Instituto de Servicios Descentralizados de Salud Publica del Estado de Campeche), to foste…
I am Esperanza Bravo de Varona and I have always believed that university libraries are founded simultaneously with the institution's founding. Thus was born the library of the Pan-American University, founded in 1926, which was later calle…
For multiple sclerosis (MS) researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, collaborative studies with Cuban physicians could significantly advance medical understanding of this debilitating disease of the central nervous