The 2021 Latin American Business Environment Report (LABER) is now available for download! Published annually since 2000, the LABER provides a yearly review of the business, investment and legal environments in all of the Latin American states, including Cuba and Haiti. This year’s edition examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Latin America.
04/13/21
In the wake of the recent horrific events in Atlanta and other cities, Women Make Movies (WMM) has been reflecting on the rise in anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes against Asian-American communities. Women Make Movies has co-signed a collective community statement of solidarity with Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta chapter against misogyny, systemic violence, and white supremacy.
As an organization that supports women filmmakers at all intersections of race, class, and gender, we are making available select films that create greater awareness and that center and uplift the voices of Asian and Asian-American women. To begin — and in collaboration with Asian Women...
04/13/21
Source: amacad.org
America and the International Future of Science, a report from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ multiyear initiative Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships (CISP), arrives during one of the most turbulent times for international scientific engagement in U.S. history. Its lessons are timely and vital for scientific leaders and policy-makers now and in the years to come.
According to AMACAD, while many U.S. policies and practices related to international scientific cooperation originated in the decades following World War II when U.S. R&D spending eclipsed that of all other...
04/13/21
The Rising Star Awards recognize faculty for their commitment to ongoing educational improvements and excellence. The Center for Teaching Excellence awards this distinction to faculty who participate in the professional development of teaching courses and activities. The Office of Global Learning at the International Center congratulates the following award recipients for achieving Rising Star status through their participation in professional development opportunities with a focus on global learning, curriculum internationalization, and...
03/30/21
Paul J. Magnarella’s book Black Panther in Exile: The Pete O'Neal Story has won the silver medal in the 2020 Florida Book Awards General Nonfiction category.
Established in 2006, the Florida Book Awards is the most comprehensive state book awards program in the nation. Winning books and their authors will be showcased in the summer 2021 issue of FORUM, the statewide magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, and will be featured at book festivals and association conferences throughout the year. In addition, copies of all...
03/30/21
Source: DCP News
University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning Professor and Dean Dr. Chimay Anumba has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction (NAC). The NAC honors and recognizes those individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the construction industry.
Recognized as a leader in developing the next generation of construction professionals, Dean Anumba has more than 500 publications, including 20 books. He has made innovative and fundamental contributions to construction engineering, management and informatics, and has received more than $150 million in...
03/16/21
Kaira Cabañas (Art History) is appointed the William C. Seitz Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Art (CASVA) for the 2021-2022 academic year. During this time, she will work toward her next book project “Deviant Histories: Radical Psychiatry and Art as Creative Care," which will be the first scholarly monograph to address the decisive impact of art and artists on international calls for asylum reform in France, Algeria, Italy, and Brazil.
This prestigious appointment supports full-time...
03/16/21
Alessandro Forte, professor of geology at the University of Florida, is one of the winners of the third wave of the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) call for projects. He will join the IPGP geomagnetism team for a joint project called GYPTIS aimed at better identifying the geodynamic disturbances of climatic markers.
Led by the National Research Agency and the CNRS, the Make Our Planet Great Again program is intended for researchers not residing on the national territory and wishing to develop, in France and in collaboration with French partners, research...
03/09/21
Margaret Galvan, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship for academic year 2021-22. This distinguished residential fellowship supports scholars working in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to pursue their research while participating in the interdisciplinary residential community of the Stanford Humanities Center. Prof. Galvan is the first Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellow from UF in the 40 years of the program’s history and she was one of 9 selected out of 300 applications!
Prof. Galvan's fellowship project, Comics in Movement, will...
03/02/21
The University of Florida is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Scholars. Each year the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces the top-producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes the lists annually.
Five UF’s scholars were awarded Fulbright...