Earlier this month, the University of Florida was named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students for the first time in 10 years by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
This recognition is given to the U.S. colleges and universities that received the highest number of applicants selected for the 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Dean Marta L. Wayne and Kelly J. Medley, Lecturer and External Scholarship & Fellowship Coordinator at the University Honors Program attended the Association of International Education Administrators Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. where top producers where recognized.
The International Center and the UF Fulbright Lectures Committee are pleased to announce that Fulbright Awareness Month (FAM) will be celebrated from March 7-31, 2023.
Fulbright Awareness Month includes multiple informational sessions for scholars, faculty, staff, and students and provides opportunities to learn about Fulbright, the application process, and to hear about the experiences of past Fulbright participants. Despite the different challenges we face both at home and abroad, the Fulbright mission remains the same: to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries—building mutual understanding between nations, advancing...
Source | The Chronicle of Higher Education
From: Karin Fischer
The list of colleges that had the most recipients of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship, the U.S. government’s flagship international-exchange program, has been released. Eighteen colleges were new to the list for the 2022-23 academic year. And nine doctoral institutions, three master’s, five baccalaureate, and one four-year special-focus institution were the top producers of both U.S. scholars and U.S. students.
What does it take to have high participation in the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, which offers teaching and research grants for...
UF ADMINISTRATIVE MEMO
FROM:
Marta L. Wayne, Dean & Associate Provost
UF International Center
SUBJECT: Fulbright Awareness Month 2023
The International Center and the UF Fulbright Lectures Committee are pleased to
announce that Fulbright Awareness Month (FAM) will be celebrated from March
7-31, 2023.
Fulbright Awareness Month includes multiple informational sessions for scholars,
faculty, staff, and students and provides opportunities to learn about Fulbright,
the application process, and to hear about the experiences of past Fulbright
participants. Despite the different challenges we face both at home and abroad,...
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs named the University of Florida a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students for the first time in 10 years. This recognition is given to the U.S. colleges and universities that received the highest number of applicants selected for the 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Eleven students from UF were selected for Fulbright awards for academic year 2022-2023.
"This prestigious recognition is a testament to the academic quality of our students at the University of Florida,” said Melissa Johnson, interim director of the UF Honors Program. “We're proud of the accomplishments of our students,...
Japanese Delegation
Shiga University, the first university in Japan to establish a program in Data Science visited UF last week to discuss collaborations in AI with the Provost Office, David Reed, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Academic Initiative Center, and with NVIDIA Corporation.
Their visit to UFIC is the first step in developing an MOU, which we hope will ultimately lead to diverse research and educational partnerships with the University of Florida.
Indian Delegation...
Dean Marta L. Wayne received an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Lifetime Fellow Award!
Please join us to recognize this incredible accomplishment achieved by our dean, as announced last week by the AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS selected 19 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class breaking previous records for the number of faculty awarded in a single year.
The AAAS Lifetime Fellow Award, which includes alumni such as Thomas Edison and W.E.B. DuBois, is among the most distinctive honor in academia and recognizes extraordinary impact and achievement...
Photo by Caia Reese | The Independent Florida Alligator
Source | The Independent Florida Alligator
by Gracey Davis
Free library boxes spring up in Gainesville
Little Free Library boxes run through international organization
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves line the walls of Heather Ray’s at-home library, a point of pride for the 48-year-old UF physics professor. When she finds a title she hasn’t picked up in a while, she’ll place it in a local Little...
Source The Chronicle of Higher Education
by Karin Fischer
On a recent fall afternoon, the Place du Souvenir, a large open-air space on Dakar’s corniche, was humming. The plaza’s name means “place of remembrance,” and it is dedicated to the African diaspora, but ice cream and ocean breezes were the main attraction this day, offering strolling families relief from unseasonably hot weather. Skateboarders clattered down a set of stairs, attempting tricks, while TikTokers used a large sculptural map of Africa as backdrop for their video...