News brief: Research faculty member wins hispanic leadership award
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 1:33 AM
Emma Sepulveda Pulvirenti, a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno was awarded a prestigious Hispanic leadership award in New Mexico last week.
Sepulveda, who was born in Argentina and immigrated to the United States in 1974, was the first Hispanic woman to become a full professor at UNR and is now the director of the school’s Latino Research Center. She works as a foundation professor of foreign languages and foreign literature.
Sepulveda is also a UNR alumna.
Sepulveda was awarded the Regional Mujer Award from the National Hispana Leadership Institute.
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