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10 Feb 2023

Off The Menu – Restaurante 2212

Restaurante 2212 No. 2212 Calle 41 Punta Gorda, Cienfuegos This year, we are doing a new blog series called, Off The Menu: 10 Questions with a Cuban Restaurateur. Each week, our resident coordinators, Yadira and...

06 Feb 2023

“The Revolution” – A Blog by Salomé Valdivieso Luther College ’23

“Cuba’s revolution has appeared in some way or form as a case study in almost every political science textbook I have read during my time as an undergrad. It was then not a surprise that...

29 Jan 2023

WEFLA – SECAN 2023 Deadlines Extended

January 29, 2023 — La Universidad de Holguín announced that it has extended the deadlines for the 17th International Congress on Foreign Languages, Communication, and Culture and the 17th Canadian Studies Seminar. Participants have until...

Heads of the Universities of Cienfuegos and SUNY Potsdam trade signed MOU

26 Jan 2023

An Abridged History of SUNY Potsdam and La Universidad de Cienfuegos

October 28, 2015 — US delegates pose for the official group photo of the first Workshop of Strategic Alliances for the Internationalization of Higher EducationFebruary 24, 2017 — A Delegation of SUNY campus presidents including...

03 Oct 2022

University of Holguín to Host Online Panels in Politics, Law, and Social Sciences

The University of Holguín will be hosting a special online session on October 13 at 9:00am EST as part of the 2nd International Congress for Transatlantic Dialogue: Politics, Law and Social Sciences (TEMPUS 2022). This...

13 Apr 2022

Softball Quality-of-Life Continues in Cienfuegos

CIENFUEGOS, CUBA – Civitas GES has had the distinct pleasure to collaborate with and support Softball Quality-of-Life, a community project in the city of Cienfuegos. Over fifty residents come together every Sunday to play...

05 Apr 2022

Drexel and University of Cienfuegos Renew Partnership

CIENFUEGOS, CUBA – On March 24, 2022 The University of Cienfuegos welcomed Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health for a full day of working meetings highlighted by a hybrid ceremony in which the two...

27 Apr 2021

WEFLA-SECAN 2021 Begins / UHo Signs with ETS

HOLGUIN, CUBA — In case you missed it, the 10th International Scientific Conference of Holguin kicked off on Monday, April 26th. This is the first real-time virtual academic conference in Cuba since the COVID-19 pandemic...

University of Cienfuegos Professor Volunteers

12 Mar 2021

“A Life Not Lived For Others Is Not a Life”: Volunteering During COVID-19 in Cienfuegos

Written by Bárbara Lucia Ortega Suárez, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Cienfuegos Dr. Adianez Fernández Bermúdez, First Vicerector, University of Cienfuegos One day I heard the phrase, “A life not lived for others...

15 Jan 2020

Happy 40th to the University of Cienfuegos

The University of Cienfuegos celebrated the 40th anniversary of their founding on December 7, 2019. Many of us couldn’t be there in person, but we asked collaborators to send their well wishes. The response was...

16 Aug 2019

New OFAC Regulations in Our Context

After months of aggressive rhetoric by the Trump Administration, on June 4, 2019, the US Treasury department finally made changes to the OFAC regulations and restricted some of the travel previously enjoyed under general license...

11 Jul 2019

Cuba TIES Receives Endorsement from COMAU

June 24, 2019 The World Council of Academics and University Researchers (COMAU) has declared its endorsement of the V Workshop of Strategic Alliances for the Internationalization of Higher Education (Cuba TIES). COMAU is encouraging its...

10 May 2019

We Stand Firm

WE STAND FIRM NOS MANTENEMOS FIRMES Civitas GES stands firm in its commitment to building bridges between the United States and Cuba based on mutual respect and friendship. In the past five years, we have...

16 Apr 2019

A Meaningful Impact for SUNY Geneseo and the Universidad de Holguín

On January 4, 2019, SUNY Geneseo and Universidad de Holguín students met for a collaborative learning experience from Holguín professors and a visiting SUNY Geneseo professor. The two-week January term course represented a first step...

14 Nov 2018

CHE 2018 STUDENTS REFLECT ON CUBA

In 2016, Drexel University’s Office of Global Health and La Universidad de Cienfuegos launched their first partnership program entitled Community, Health and Environment (CHE), a multidisciplinary approach to issues related to public health. The program...