November 10, 2016

Lupe Flores 

HACU-selected researchers begin Germinating Transformative Climate Change Research through Diversity program

Five researchers from Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) member institutions participated in the first workshop at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 4-6, 2016, as part of the NSF-funded "Germinating Transformative Climate Change Research through Diversity." The NSF program brings together participants from different cultural, educational and disciplinary backgrounds to collaborate in developing research proposals.

Participants at the meeting included HACU Senior Vice President and COO John Moder and the following five researchers from HACU-member institutions:

  • Alejandro Torres, University of Puerto Rico Humacao
  • Serena Alexander, San Jose State University
  • Jason Douglas, San Jose State University
  • Derek Tesser, Guttman Community College, CUNY
  • Octaviana Trujillo, Northern Arizona University

 The program also includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, and the National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, which selected researchers for the program in addition to HACU's.



  

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, founded in 1986, represents more than 500 colleges and universities in the United States, Latin America, Spain, and school districts throughout the U.S. HACU is the only national association representing existing and emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The Association’s headquarters are in San Antonio, Texas, with regional offices in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, California.

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