Miami, Florida ---- Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who represents the 18^th Congressional District and serves as Ranking Republican Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will attend a check presentation at the University of Miami to award $500,000 in federal funds to the university’s Center for Hemispheric Policy.

These funds will allow the Center to continue its incredible work examining and holding discussions about our Hemisphere’s critical issues ranging from pending free trade agreements, the ongoing situation in communist Cuba, effects of globalization on relations between developed and developing countries and the recent escalation of tensions between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

WHO: Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, University President, Dr. Donna E. Shalala; Director of the Center for Hemispheric Policy, Dr. Susan Kaufman Purcell; Vice President for Government Affairs Rudy Fernandez and other invited school officials.

WHEN:            Monday, March 17^th at 10:00 AM

WHERE:          MacLamore Executive Education Center, 3^rd Floor, School of Business, located at 5250 University Drive, University of Miami, Coral Gables. (Event will be in the MacLamore Executive Education Center at the School of Business).

Said Ros-Lehtinen: “UM is not only my school, it is also one of the most important educational centers in our country in the studies related to events in our hemisphere. The fine professionals and experts that labor and teach at the Center for Hemispheric Policy know and understand that their work is important and timely and that events in this interconnected world can affect us all. These funds will allow them to continue doing what they do so well!”

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