The Ghana National Museum is exhibiting materials excavated from Nasia by Mustapha Kofi Mohammed in its renovated facility. The exhibition includes two tuyere pipes excavated by Mustapha during his Ph.D. fieldwork at the Nasia region, an ironworking hub in the Mamprugu region. Tuyere pipes are part of the superstructure of ironworking, serving as the channel through which air is taken into the furnace chamber in which iron ore stones are smelted to produce an iron bloom. The tuyeres are exhibited in the Iron Age...
08/22/22
This summer, Dr. Kathleen Colverson worked with colleagues and friends from FLACSO University and an NGO in Ecuador (EkoRural) on two projects that focus on nutrition, poverty, and gender equality. Both projects target low-income women and their families to improve their...
08/22/22
This summer, two UF Gators, Deborah Ogunmodede and Yewande O. Addie, participated in the Fulbright-Hays Intensive Advanced Yoruba Group Project Abroad (YGPA). The summer immersion program was hosted at the University of Ibadan’s Yoruba Language Centre in southwest Nigeria. The program is funded by the United States Department of Education through Fulbright-Hays fellowships and offers American college/university students a rare opportunity to learn Yoruba among the native speakers in Nigeria.
Ogunmodede is a junior health science student from Miami, Florida and one of the cooking director’s in UF’s African Student Union. Addie is a Spring 2022 PhD graduate from ...
08/22/22
During the 2022 Spring and Summer semesters, UF Department of Psychology professor, Dr. Marina Klimenko, conducted a cross-cultural investigation alongside an undergraduate psychology student, Amy Pezoldt, and four students from the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poland. The goal of the investigation was to examine potential cultural similarities and differences in the expression of romantic ideals in romantic teen drama films.
As a result of the ongoing collaboration between AMU Philosophy Department faculty members, ...
08/15/22
A UF faculty delegation, represented by Adegbola Adesogan, Samira Daroub, Gregory Kiker, Nargiza Ludgate, and Rafael Munoz Carpena, attended a two-day conference in Jordan held within the framework of the University Cooperation Network (UCN). UCN is a network of twenty Jordanian and U.S. universities aimed at strengthening strategic and long-term institutional collaboration in research and teaching between universities and developing new mechanisms for bilateral cooperation that enhance the productivity and impact of university linkages. The University of Florida is one of the founding members of the UCN.
The conference entitled New Approaches to US-Jordan University Collaboration...
08/15/22
UF's DCP Construction Management recently visited the American University of Kurdistan (AUK), the University of Duhok (UOD), the University of
Kurdistan Hewler (UKH), and the University of Zakho. During this visit, the University of Kurdistan Hewler proposed a 2-week summer program for their college students to come to UF to learn about the UF/US higher education system, cultural understanding, and graduate programs at UF.
The UF College of Design, Construction and Planning has a two-year grant with AUK and has contributed to building a strong relationship and collaboration between the faculty of AUK and DCP. We offered many pieces of training, establishing BIM Lab and...
08/10/22
“I am honored to have been selected to lead the UF International Center, and to follow Dean Villalón! The Center has thrived under his leadership, and I am looking forward to building on his and the Center staff’s achievements.
It is hard to imagine a more urgent time for international engagement. We face global challenges from pandemics to climate change to food shortages, challenges that no individual nation can solve on their own. We are poised at the edge of the fourth industrial revolution. AI and associated technologies could help the world solve global problems, or worsen them by exacerbating inequality. It’s an important and exciting period for all of us to be involved in...
08/10/22
Professor John Freeman led this study-abroad course to Berlin from May 13 to May 26, 2022. It was the 16th summer he helped students conduct field research to document the spirit and vitality of the city where he attended high school as an "Air Force brat." At the peak of the Cold War, 1968 to 1971, Freeman lived in West Berlin, surrounded by the Wall, a barrier he thought would never fall. The idea of returning to a free and unified Berlin with students came to him on sabbatical from UF in Fall 2004.
During the two-week course, 12 students were introduced to the city through bicycle and walking tours,...
07/25/22
Congratulations to Fernando Sckaff Santos Lazaro, Computer Science Major at the University of Florida, on his acceptance to the 2022 Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF)!
Station1 is a nonprofit higher education institution, founded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, that is paving a pathway of opportunity through a new model of learning and research - socially-directed science and technology. This model integrates science and technology with humanistic fields and the social sciences in order to interrogate, understand, and shape technologically-driven societal impact towards more...