We are pleased to inform you that Dr. Irene Bravo has been appointed Interim Vice Chancellor of the Miami Campus, effective March 3, 2014.

The new undergraduate science wing is now using mice and mazes to understand the psychology of learning, memory, and cognition.  The straight lecture has been complemented with research projects that students engineer.  “Why not bring them to life?” said Jaime Picañol, PsyD, in speaking about masters such as B. F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov.  “It’s iconic, echoic, and kinesthetic; it’s a multi-modal teaching system, and it’s fun.”

The Board of Trustees of Carlos Albizu University announced the appointment of Ram S. Lamba, CSci, CChem, FRSC as Interim President.  Dr. Lamba represents the fourth in a chain of command, succeeding Dr. Ileana Rodríguez García, after five years of significant academic and capital achievements with an unprecedented three Title V expansion grants awarded in one year.  Among their shared achievements during Dr. Lamba’s three-year tenure in the role of Vice President for Academic Affairs is the creation of the Center for Scientific Research and appointment of its director, Dr. Cynthia Garcia Coll.