The International Educator of the Year Awards honors the outstanding contributions of faculty and staff to the internationalization of the University of Florida and the impact of those contributions on students, international partners, and university stakeholders.

The University of Florida International Center presents the 2023 International Educator of the Year Awards to:

Dr. Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko - Senior Faculty Category
Professor of Educational Technology
School of Teaching and Learning
College of Education

Dr. Gloria Jung A. Kim - Junior Faculty Category
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Education
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Rebecca J. Beachy - Staff Category
Coordinator of Research Programs and Events
Public Utility Research Center
Warrington College of Business

We also congratulate our staff and faculty nominees who are recognized this year as winners in their respective UF colleges and departments:

International Educators Awardees by College – Senior Faculty

Luis Álvarez-Castro, Ph.D. - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Juan M. Aranda Jr., M.D.- College of Medicine
Donald Behringer, Ph.D. - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Christophe Bobda, Ph.D. - Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Heather J. Gibson, Ph.D. - College of Health and Human Performance
Linjuan Rita Men, Ph.D. - College of Journalism and Communications
Karen S. Reed, MSN, DHSc, RN, CNE, CNL, CRRN - College of Nursing
Paul Richards, Ph.D. - College of the Arts
Christine Richmond - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Charles Sims, Ph.D. - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

International Educators Awardees by College – Junior Faculty

Bashar Alzghoul, M.D. - College of Medicine
Marshall A. Haning - College of the Arts
Matthieu Felt, Ph.D. - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Cameron Jack, Ph.D. - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Ana Martin-Ryals, Ph.D. - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Ryan Sharston, Ph.D. - College of Design, Construction and Planning
Jessica-Jean Stonecipher, Ph.D. - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
María Celeste Wagner, Ph.D. - College of Journalism and Communications
Mingyi Xie, Ph.D. - College of Medicine

International Educator Nominees – Staff

Jenna Gonzalez - Director, Disability Resource Center, Div. of Student Life

Pam Marlin - Academic Assistant II, Media and Graduate Student Services,
Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Sophie Spratley, Ph.D. - Assistant Director, Academic Support
Office of Academic Affairs, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering