03/11/24
UFIC Study Abroad Services hosted its first ever Passport Day in conjunction with UF Passport Services. This event, organized by Jess Mercier, Assistant Director of Outreach & Marketing, allowed study abroad students to easily apply or renew their passport. This successful effort will become a recurring event at the International Center. We are especially grateful for the cooperation and partnership with UF Passport Services. For additional information, please contact jmercier@ufic.ufl.edu
03/11/24
FSU President Richard McCullough delivered the opening remarks at the 25th Annual FAIE Conference, which took place on Feb. 16 at the Augustus B. Turnbull III Florida State Conference Center. (FSU Center for Global Engagement/Seamus Toner)
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03/04/24
UF is proud to introduce ...
03/04/24
Congratulations to the following recipients of the IFAS international awards:
- International Research Fellow: This award recognizes outstanding international career accomplishments by mid to late-career faculty members (anytime post-tenure or at least 7 years in their academic career for non-tenure track).
Karen Garrett
Preeminent Professor, Plant Pathology.
- Early Career International Research Fellow: This award recognizes early career faculty members in research (anytime pre-tenure or less than 7 years since hire into their...
03/04/24
The Spring 2024 Virtual Exchange Training kicked off this month, and Dean Marta Wayne provided a welcome to the UF and international faculty participants. This semester's UF participants are from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the College of Education, and the College of the Arts. The international faculty are joining from institutions in Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda. Over the next several weeks, these professors will collaborate to develop their own virtual exchange projects as to incorporate international content and communication activities into their existing...
03/04/24
Just as UF prepares to celebrate Fulbright Awareness Month, UFIC is pleased to announce that Michael Kung, Ed.D. (Director and Assistant Scholar, Office for Global Research Exchange) and Nicole Fuls (Assistant Director of Faculty Engagement, Study Abroad Services) both received the Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) award, which will allow them to participate in a two-week seminar abroad to learn about other countries’ higher education systems.
Dr. Kung is a triple gator with his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate from UF. While working on his Ed.D., Michael was the Director of Global Education at the College of Design, Construction and Planning. He is the...
02/26/24
Get to Know Us!
Once a month we will be showcasing the amazing staff who make the International Center a place where the UF community meets all its international goals!
Yu Aoyagi
“Yagi”, is one of the International Center’s talented staff of eight F-1 International Student Advisors, known to the government as Designated School Officials (DSO), that update and maintain the student immigration records of our group of over 6,000 F-1 international students at UF.
Aside from his surname range, Yagi is also DSO for all F-1 Athletes. “When we were reorganizing caseloads among the F-1 advisors, Yagi offered to take on what I call one of our specialty groups,”...
02/26/24
The Indian Dance & Entrepreneurship in the Diaspora event highlighting Indian dance and culture in the U.S. was a great success! Along with holding master classes for students in the School of Theatre + Dance, they welcome 80 participants to a public seminar featuring the national guest artists and local Indian dancers.
WUFT recorded the day's events along with oral history interviews with the artists on their experiences as immigrants and entrepreneurs which will become a video documentary. A virtual screening is expected towards the end of the Spring semester. For more information please contact Marie Kessler.