OFFICE HOURS ARE NOT JUST FOR CLASSES!
The dean of the International Center, Dr. Marta L. Wayne, holds office hours for faculty, staff and students and invites YOU to come and start a conversation about your ideas and global plans. Please schedule your visit with ...
09/12/22
08/29/22
PERMIAS Gainesville, an organization of Indonesian students who study at the University of Florida (UF), recently celebrated the 77th independence day of Indonesia. Indonesia’s independence was first established on August 17th, 1945. This year, the country raised the theme “Pulih Lebih Cepat, Bangkit Lebih Kuat” (Recover Faster, Rise Stronger), meaning that after the pandemic, COVID-19, for the last two years, all people should work together and strengthen each other. About 30 people, including UF students and Indonesians who live in Gainesville, gathered in Lake Wauburg to celebrate Indonesia’s independence day. All participants enjoyed Indonesian foods and traditional games commonly...
08/29/22
Join the UF Center for African Studies in welcoming Alioune Sow, Interim Director and Associate Professor! Dr. Sow has been a part of CAS since 2004 when he was jointly appointed as a faculty member of the Center and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He has also served as the director of the France Florida Research Institute from 2012-2018 and the Undergraduate Coordinator for French. Dr. Sow's work has included research focusing on post-colonial political transitions and the production of...
08/29/22
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...