Aned Y. Muñiz Gracia

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[1] Young award-winning professor who started teaching at the Univ. of Hawaii at 20 years of age. During her last year of high-school, Aned took part in an international cultural exchange program in Austria. She attended Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras and received a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages, and afterwards received the Master of Arts in European Languages and Literature from the Univ. of Hawaii. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Austria. Presently she is writing a dissertation at the University of San Diego, where she has completed all coursework leading to the doctoral degree in Leadership Studies and Educational Sciences.

Having lived, studied or worked in different parts of the world enabled her to learn various languages such as Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, English. She has also studied Welsh, Serbo-Croatian, and Arabic, among other languages.

Aned's roster of scholastic awards includes being named Outstanding Professor of the Year at MiraCosta College in 2006; being nominated every year since 2003 for a Teaching Excellence Award at Southwestern College; repeat nominations as a "Woman of Impact" at the University of San Diego; a Fulbright award; Scholarship from Cymdeithas Madog, the Welsh-American Society, to attend their 1996 Welsh seminar and summer language course in Vermont; Scholarship from the German Government's Academic Exchange to take part in the 1994 summer course for German language specialists at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Second Prize, University of Hawaii French poetry contest, 1994; Poetry Award, Association Portoricaine des Professeurs de Français, 1995; Hawaii Newspaper Agency Award for Excellence in Commentary/Analysis in 1998.

She is also an avid swimmer and was named "Surfer of the Month" by El Nuevo Dia newspaper, September 1996.

A curious fact is that she was born and raised in Corozal, a rural town in Puerto Rico. As a girl she enjoyed nature and playing with animals. (This is probably why she is now a vegetarian).