Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado is leaving the post of PUCMM rector after 44 years. He is being replaced by Father Ramon Alfredo de la Cruz from the Universidad Nordestana in San Francisco de Macoris.
Yesterday, 15 December 2014, he presented a report on achievements of the university from September 2013 to August 2014.
It reveals that the PUCMM University in Santiago spent RD$363.3 million on scientific and innovation research over that period. .
One of the main achievements was the registration of a patent for an invention produced at the Nanoscience Laboratory under the direction of Fabrice Piazza in the United States, Taiwan and a consortium of 148 countries including the Dominican Republic. It is the first ever patent to be registered by a Dominican educational establishment.
Rector Monsignor Nunez Collado also highlighted the introduction of new degrees in health, education and architecture and 16 new Master’s courses and specialties.
In addition he said that 23 cooperation agreements had been signed with higher education institutions in Spain, France, United States, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada and the Dominican Republic.
He said that an agreement worth RD$50 million had also been signed with the Banco de Reservas to finance student tuition fees.
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