Havana, September 26 (RHC)-- Jose Narro, Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), received on Friday the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Havana in the Aula Magna, the Main Lecture Hall.

In his words of appreciation, Narro, who has been granted this award from another 10 academies throughout the world, thanked the University of Havana for the acknowledgment received, on behalf of the higher education center he represents.

Gustavo Cobreiro, rector of the University of Havana, stressed in his speech that the UNAM, from where several Nobel Prizes have graduated, was declared a World Cultural Site and received the Prince of Asturias Award in Communications and Humanities during the time Narro headed that university.