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Uncontrolled dumping of expanded polystyrene (EPS or PS or Styrofoam) waste in the largest urban water drainage in Port-au-Prince Credit: https://www.gafe-haiti.org/spip.php?article114

Source: Haitian Studies Association
By Daphenide St-Louis

Plastics, originally designed to improve human living conditions, have become one of the most ubiquitous materials and also a real environmental concern. They represent one of the fastest growing fractions of municipal solid waste with production increasing from 1.5 million tons in the 1950s to 335 million...

Photo by Emma Hayakawa | The Independent Florida Alligator

Source: The Independent Florida Alligator
By Amanda Friedman

When she was a student at William S. Talbot Elementary, Keira Lee was only one of three Asian American children at the school. Without proper representation in the classroom, tales from her Chinese immigrant grandparents served as the only source of Asian American history education she received as a child.

“I mostly learned about my culture through my family,” Lee said.

Now an 18-year-old Buchholz High...

On May 15th Dr. Mary Risner, Assoc. Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and Paloma Rodriguez, Director of the Office of Global Learning, co-led a workshop on virtual exchange for administrators and faculty from institutions from all over the world. The event was hosted by Florida Gulf Coast University as part of the Annual Hanseatic League of Universities conference, which brought together delegates from 24 countries including the Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Brazil, Mexico, Hungary, Italy, Albania, Germany, and the US. The one-day workshop introduced attendees to virtual exchange, provided an overview of its implementation at UF, and concluded...