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Dr. Erika Brooke, Associate Instructional Professor in the UF Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, and her virtual exchange partner, Professor Xavier F. Andrade Castillo from Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, were recently interviewed by UNICollaboration, a European-based Virtual Exchange network. During the interview, they explained how they created a virtual exchange project that enabled students to compare and reflect on the cultural similarities and differences in their perceptions of law and justice systems.

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Paloma Rodriguez, Director of the Office of Global Learning, and Mary Risner, Associate Director of UF’s Center for Latin American Studies, visited Universidad Autonoma de Campeche and the Instituto Campechano in Mexico to discuss future collaborations and increasing virtual exchange partnerships between our institutions. A special thank you to Monica Guerrero, Irene Aké Ché, Benjamin Otto Ortega Morales, Rosalinda Echavarría Sánchez, Gabriela De la Cruz Pereyra, Darwin Perez, Rafael Enrique Meneses Lopez, Melissa Aguilar, Nadia Kass May, Eduardo Aguilar and all the wonderful faculty and colleagues who met with them during their visit.

From left to right: Leanne Wong, Austin Lee, Joshua Thomas, Julianne Owen and Rida Rizvi pose on the stage of the University Auditorium. (Photo by Brianne Lehan)

The Spring 2025 commencement season marked a huge milestone for the University of Florida. The Gator Nation® has grown into a dynamic network of alumni — now half-a-million strong — that spans every Florida county, the nation and the globe. These 500,000 alumni are keen to connect, uplift and pave an Orange and Blue trail for themselves and future Gators.

To commemorate the exceptional class of 2025 and this historic alumni landmark, we selected five students who illustrate many of the best traits of what it means to be a Gator.

The pillars these students exemplify were based on the four figures found on the hammer-beam ends along the interior of UF’s historic University Auditorium. Each... READ MORE