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CPF is happy to introduce Rubén Mamani, the new on-site External Relations Coordinator.Rubén started his role at the UAC-CP in January 2019. CPF Executive Director, Hugh Smeltekop, is optimistic about what CPF will be able to accomplish with Rubén in the position. Rubén, who  was born and raised in Bolivia’s capital city of La Paz,…

A 12-member team from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, visited the UAC-CP January 14 – 25, 2019, for the third year in a row as part of UST’s VISION program. VISION organizes domestic and international service and cultural immersion trips during J-term and spring break. According to UST’s Office for Service and Social…

The College received a visit from two representatives of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) from Denmark. Brent Michael Nielsen, Chairman of EWB-Denmark, and Paul Erik Hansen, professor emeritus in the Department of Science and Environment at Roskilde University, represented EWB at the College. The objective of the visit was to finalize the project “Analysis and Characterization…

One of the UAC-CP’s very first Agronomy graduates Rene Villca (’01) was featured in an article in Bolivia’s daily independent newspaper Página Siete on December 6.  In the article, Villca, who works as the Coordinator of a Beekeeping Project for the Municipality of Coroico, explained how climate change, the use of pesticides on coca crops,…

The College received special mention in an article published in La Razón–a leading national newspaper in Bolivia. While the focus of the article was on Catholic University of Bolivia’s (UCB) work to develop an all-organic fungicide to combat a common fungus that attacks coffee crops in Yungas, the article also gave specific mention to the…