Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña National (UNPHU), and the Dr. Rafael María Moscoso Botanical Garden signed a framework partnership agreement. Both institutions have technical, teaching and scientific fields of common interest; therefore, they committed themselves to collaboration, the exchange of experiences and knowledge for the scientific, social and cultural progress of the same.
This agreement aims to enhance academic, scientific, and cultural cooperation relations, as well as the exchange of teachers, researchers, students, publications in indexed media, academic programs, and research projects, between both institutions.
The signing of the agreement took place in the university’s Rectory, on December 15, 2022, between Architect Miguel Fiallo Calderón, Rector at UNPHU and Pedro Nolasco Suárez Espino, Director of the National Botanical Garden Dr. Rafael María Moscoso.
During the signing, were present at UNPHU Josefina Pepín Ubrí, Vice-Chancellor of Research, Linkage and Internationalization Projects; Claudia Acra, Director of Research, and for the National Botanical Garden, Teodoro Class, in charge of the Botany department.
On UNPHU
With 56 years of foundation, it has a wide academic offer of undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education, with a vision of academic excellence, innovation, and research, attached to sustainable development and environmental preservation.
About the National Botanical Garden Dr. Rafael María Moscoso
The National Botanical Garden, Dr. Rafael María Moscoso was founded with the purpose of studying, conserving, and managing the diverse and rich flora of the Dominican Republic, through Law 456 of 1976, and inaugurated on August 15 of the same year. It’s named after Dr. Rafael María Moscoso, as a posthumous tribute to the first Dominican botanist who wrote a catalog on the flora of the Spanish Island in 1943. Its emblem is a Guanito leaf (Coccothrinax argentea), a very abundant thin palm within the garden.
