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A COMMUNITY FORUM TO DISCUSS CUBA WITH FIU SCHOLARS

"Ask the Expert" is a community forum in which members of the public can address questions regarding Cuban and Cuban American issues to FIU faculty affiliates of the Cuban Research Institute:

Sebastián Arcos Community Relations and Development Manager	Eudel Cepero Research Analyst, Applied Research Center	Uva de Aragón Associate Director, CRI	Grenville Draper Professor of Earth Sciences
Juan Carlos Espinosa Associate Dean and Fellow of The Honors College	Jennifer Gebelein Professor of International Relations and Geography	Hugh Gladwin Director, Institute for Public Opinion Research	Guillermo Grenier Professor of Sociology
Katrin Hansing Visiting Associate Director, CRI	Sherry Johnson Professor of History	Juan Martínez Professor of Art and Art History	Dario Moreno Professor of Political Science
Lisandro Pérez Professor of Sociology	Marifeli Pérez-Stable Professor of Sociology	Nicolas Quintana Professor of Architecture	Alex Stepick Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
John Virtue

Florida International University was founded in 1972 and is Miami's only public research university. With a student body of 38,000, FIU graduates more Hispanics than any other university in the country. Its 21 colleges and schools offer more than 200 bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations and law. FIU has also been classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a "High Research Activity." This year FIU was authorized to establish a medical school, which will open in 2009. FIU's College of Law recently received accreditation in the fastest time allowed by the American Bar Association. The university is also recognized as a leader in Cuban Studies, with the largest concentration of faculty experts on Cuba and the Cuban-American community of any university in the US.

The FIU Office of Media Relations staff is available to assist journalists:

Maydel Santana-Bravo
305-348-1555
305-972-8276
santanam@fiu.edu

José Dante Parra
305-348-2716
305-297-8180
parraj@fiu.edu