Congratulations to UF Faculty Completing Virtual Exchange Training
01/30/23

The Fall 2022 Virtual Exchange Training gathered UF faculty members and international faculty partners for a five-week online course. Participants attended synchronous sessions and collaborated in the development of an international virtual exchange module for their courses. Through these modules, students at UF will virtually collaborate on class projects and activities with their peers around the world.

This special edition of our newsletter features some of the virtual exchange projects designed by the faculty who participated in this professional development opportunity. We hope you will be inspired by them.

To learn more about virtual exchange visit our ...

José Valentino Ruiz Receives Inc. Magazine's Best in Business® Award
01/23/23

José Valentino Ruiz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music Business & Entrepreneurship at the UF School of Music & Affiliate at the UF Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, College of the Arts, has served as Resident Media Composer for Hayden5 for 14+ years, a video production agency that won Inc. Magazine's Best in Business® Awards for extraordinary impact in their fields and on society.

The Georgian Cultural Society of Istanbul, Turkey has published a new Turkish edition of Emeritus Professor Paul Magnarella's book
01/23/23

The Georgian Cultural Society of Istanbul, Turkey has published a new Turkish edition of Emeritus Professor Paul Magnarella's book under the title of Bir Köyün Serüveni.
The English title is The Peasant Venture.

COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework: 196 countries to require all large business and financial institutions to assess and disclose their risks, impacts and dependencies on nature
01/17/23

Source: BusinessForNature.org

Business for Nature welcomes this historic agreement as it defines our common goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, commits governments to requiring all large business and financial institutions to assess and disclose their risks, impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and promises comprehensive reform of environmentally harmful subsidies. This simply wouldn’t have happened without the effort and teamwork from a huge number of organizations, including many of our partners and leading companies stepping and showing up.

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NF Chapter Fulbright Association Organizes Successful Community Outing
01/10/23

This past December, the North Florida Chapter Fulbright Association organized a fun and successful outing for members and families. The Christmas Festival in Downtown Alachua was the place of reunion where attendees enjoyed a small town holiday atmosphere, met "Santa Claus" and walked around to see beautiful Christmas lights displays. The group was also treated to chili and hot cocoa at Dr. Karen Reed's home.

Sofi-Nicole Barreiro explores identity formation among UF students with Miami-Dade, Latinx background
01/10/23

Source:ISSUU

Interviews with Latinx students from Miami-Dade County illuminate nuance and commonalities — but no singular ‘Latino experience’

In the fall of 2017, 3,3621 undergraduate students from Miami-Dade County started the semester at the University of Florida. Sofi-Nicole Barreiro, a freshman pursuing political science and Latin American Studies, was one of them. By the time she graduated in 2020, UF’s undergraduate student population identifying as Hispanic or Latino/a had grown 13%.*

But Sofi-Nicole isn’t as interested in the stories these numbers might...

Professor J. Bryan Unruh Receives Environmental Stewardship Award
01/10/23

Source: GCSAA | Angela Hartmann

Lawrence, Kan. (Dec. 13, 2022) – J. Bryan Unruh, Ph.D., professor at the University of Florida and associate director of the West Florida Research and Education Center, has been named the recipient of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America’s 2023 President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship. He will be recognized during the Sunrise Celebration of the 2023 GCSAA Conference and Trade Show on Feb. 8 in Orlando.

The President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship was established in 1991 to recognize an exceptional environmental contribution to the game of golf; a contribution...

COM Department of Emergency Medicine’s Section of Global Health Completes Another Visit to Ghana
12/13/22

The COM Department of Emergency Medicine’s Section of Global Health recently completed another successful visit to its partner institutions in Ghana. The team taught point-of-care ultrasound courses to physicians and nurses at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. In addition, we also provided an intermediate as well as an advanced level ultrasound trainin as pre- and post-conference courses for the 6th African Conference on Emergency Medicine, which took place in Accra, Ghana. Faculty, fellows and alumni of the Section of Global Health presented multiple posters and plenary...

UFIC staff highlighted in County Library Book Review Podcast
12/13/22
CAS Student Spotlight

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Source: Liberal Arts and Sciences | Center for African Studies

Khumo Senuku’s research examines systems thinking in addressing structural poverty among the formerly incarcerated– creating equitable and inclusive prosperity for all. She is conducting her study locally in Gainesville, working with a community development non-profit, Community Spring focusing on their project...

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