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12 unusual facts about University of Havana


Ambika Soni

Ambika studied at Welham Girls School,Dehradun and did her M.A. (Hons.) from Indraprastha College, Delhi University, followed by Diploma Superiore en Langue Francaise from Alliance Francaise, Bangkok and Post-Graduate Diploma in Spanish Art and Literature from University of Havana, Cuba.

Argeliers León

He studied music at the Municipal Conservatory of Havana, Pedagogy at the University of Havana and completed specialized studies during summer courses at the University of Havana and the Universidad de Concepción in Chile .

Charles Recher

He has held numerous guest lectureships, including the University of Havana (Cuba).

Eunephrops cadenasi

The specific epithet cadenasi commemorates José Manuel Cadenas y Aguilera, Rector of the University of Havana.

Gilberto Zaldívar

Zaldívar was born in 1934 in the town of Deleyte in Cuba's eastern Holguín Province and attended the University of Havana.

Juan Guiteras

In 1900 he became chair of the Pathology and Tropical Diseases department at the University of Havana and founded the Journal of Tropical Medicine.

Guiteras studied medicine at the University of Havana, and moved to the United States in 1873 to attend the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated that same year.

Miguel Barnet

In college, Barnet went to study anthropology and sociology at the University of Havana.

Sprott School of Business

In addition to its degrees offered at Carleton, the Sprott School of Business collaborates with other schools to offer variety of degrees around the world, including in India, Iran, China, and in partnership with the University of Havana in Cuba.

University of Havana

The two men who gave that authorization to the university were Pope Innocent XIII and King Philip V of Spain.

University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Engineering

The institution was actually patterned after the University of Havana in Cuba and was first set up at the second floor of the old UST building in Intramuros.

William Lee Brent

He earned a Spanish literature degree from the University of Havana and taught English at various junior and senior high schools.


Glenda Leon

She has also studied Classical Ballet and Philology at the University of Havana, where she got a BA in Art History.

Isabel Gomez-Bassols

Her studies at the University of Havana were interrupted and she continued her studies at the University of Miami where she finally graduated.

René Peña

Born in Havana in 1957, René Peña graduated from the University of Havana with a specialization in English.