USF helps Miches

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The University of South Florida (USF) has added its name to the group of organizations that is working to transform the municipality of Miches into a model for sustainable development. Betty Castor, former education secretary of the state of Florida and former president of USF, and Mark Amen, Patel Center for Global Solutions program director at USF, made the announcement after a meeting with John Gagain Jr., the executive director of the Dominican Presidential Commission for the Millennium Development Goals. As well as USF, INTEC University in Santo Domingo, New York's Columbia University and Spain's University of Seville are also taking part in the project. James Danoff Burg, director of Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth (ESEG) at Columbia, is directing the Miches project.

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