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Fernandez to Join Purchase College
as Provost
Dr. Damian Fernandez, vice provost and head of Florida International University
(FIU)-Biscayne Bay, has been appointed provost and executive VP of academic
affairs at Purchase College (N.Y.), effective Aug. 1. He is also director
of the Cuban Research Institute at FIU, a leading source of research and
academic programs on Cuba and Cuban-American issues. Fernandez has received
two teaching awards and is the author of Cuba and the Politics of Passion.
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Dowling College Elects Gonzalez to
Board of Trustees
Dr. Myrka A. Gonzalez, Esq., chief financial officer of Nualliance, LLC,
has been elected to the board of trustees of Dowling College (N.Y.). Gonzalez
is an adjunct professor at the State University of New York Suffolk Community
College and has been a practicing attorney for more than 20 years.
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UW-Oshkosh's Matos Named Conductor
of NIU Philharmonic
Lucia Matos, music director and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra,
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, has been named conductor of the Northern
Illinois University (NIU) Philharmonic and music director of the NIU Opera
Workshop, effective this summer. Matos has conducted orchestras in the
U.S., Brazil and Europe and has directed opera music across the Midwest.
She recorded a CD with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra that was
released in 2006. In 2007, she was a semifinalist at the Bela Bartok International
Opera Conducting Competition. She earned master's and doctoral degrees
in conducting from the University of Iowa and a bachelor's in conducting
from Campinas State University in her native Brazil.
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USHCC Announces New Board Members
The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce announced the appointments
of two new board members: David Gomez and Steven Gutierrez. Gomez is founder,
CEO and president of David Gomez and Associates Inc., one of the nation's
largest Hispanic-owned search firms, specializing in executive search
and corporate board placement. He has received an "Entrepreneurial
Spirit Award" from Minorities in Business magazine and the "Corporate
Elite" award from Hispanic Business magazine. Gutierrez is president
of Gutierrez Industries Inc. and Gutierrez Enterprises Inc., an international
supplier of industrial supplies and services in the U.S. and Mexico. He
is also an owner of Thorton's Auto Salvage in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Falcon Joins Census Bureau's
Hispanic Advisory Committee
Angelo Falcon, president and co-founder of the National
Institute for Latino Policy, has been selected by
Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez to serve on the
U.S. Census Bureau's Advisory Committee on the Hispanic
population. The nine-member committee will advise the
Census Bureau on ways to achieve a more accurate count of
the Hispanic population in the 2010 Census. Falcon is a
nationally recognized expert on Latino politics and
policy issues and an adjunct assistant professor at the
Columbia University School of Public and International
Affairs. He created the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy
in New York City in the early 1980s, and is one of the
longest-serving chief executives of a Latino nonprofit in
the country.
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