EDUCATION

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Department of Entomological Sciences. December 1990. Dissertation: Systematics and some aspects of the biology of the scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), West Indies.
  
  
• M.A. University of California, Berkeley. Department of Botany. December 1989.
  
  
• M.S. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Biology Department. June 1985. Thesis: Systematics and some aspects of the biology of the scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Greater Puerto Rico Region.
  
  
• B.S. University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Biology Department. June 1979. Minors: Mathematics and Education. Magna cum Laude.

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