Valentina Contesse, a visiting literacy expert, centre, is at Saltus providing teachers with professional development. Mark Pacheco, assistant professor at the School of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education at the University of Florida, left, and Jesse Sheppard, director of curriculum at Saltus (Photograph by Blaire Simmons)
Source: The Royal Gazette
By Sarah Lagan
A United States-based literacy expert this...
The magazine also ranked UF among the top university investments in the country
Forbes has named the University of Florida the No. 4 public university in the nation and among the top institutions in the country for return on investment, according to rankings released today.
In lists that include the country’s most renowned educational institutions, UF stood out for its ability “to offer students high earning potential with low debt burdens and a great return on their investment,”...
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning informed that professor Emeritus of Ceramics, Anna Calluori Holcombe have been recommended by the Peer Review Panel for placement on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for a tenure of three years. Thus, the professor’s Roster tenure officially begins on 08/16/2024 and will end on 08/16/2027.
As a candidate on the Fulbright Specialist Roster, Anna Calluori Holcombe is now eligible to be matched with projects.
Congratulations for your achievements Anna!
ISS and ESS hosted on Monday the F-1 Undergraduate and J-1 Exchange Students Orientation and Tabling at the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom. The event counted with campus tour, presentations by campus partners, F-1 and J-1 regulations to cover, as well as tabling by the campus partners, the SSA, and the ACTC (for FLHSMV). It was a busy and eventful day!
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Professor Eugenia Garcia Sottile of the Universidad Catolica de Valencia (UCV) in Spain was recently awarded the Santander Award for Internationalisation: COIL UCV for the virtual exchange project that she, UF Professor Christine Wegner, and Professors Colleen Lotz and Chantell Gouws from Durban University of Technology in South Africa developed and implemented. Their project, ...
In June, Professor Auletta of the University of Florida's Entomology and Nematology Department attended the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) conference in which he presented on how to make international learning experiences accessible for all students through virtual exchange. In his presentation titled, "Science Across Borders: A Virtual Exchange Project to Make International Experiences More Accessible to Students', Professor Auletta shared both quantitative and qualitative data from the outcomes of this project which demonstrated the benefits of virtual exchange. In this project, students connected with entomology researchers from around the world and...
Prof. Sylvia Gethicker, Adjunct Instructor for UF CJC Online, and Prof. Sydney Pereira, Professor in the School of Business at Conestoga College, kicked off their VE collaboration with back-to-back VE implementations in the fall and spring of 2023-2024, after completing virtual exchange (VE) trainings at both UF and Conestoga College in Canada.
To hear how their project, ...
Source: Sea Grant Florida
By Sarisha Boodoo
Dr. Frank Asche, a Professor in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (SFFGS)at the University of Florida and a Research Affiliate for Florida Sea Grant, has been selected as a fellow of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET). Founded in 1982, IIFET aims to promote interaction and exchange among professionals from various disciplines and countries regarding marine resource economics and trade issues.
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The research that Carrie Martins, Coordinator of Faculty Development Initiatives in the Office of Global Learning, conducted for her master's thesis completed through the UF Center for Latin American Studies last year was recently published as an open access, peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Virtual Exchange. "Beyond borders: Building capacity and enhancing institutional resources for U.S.-Mexico virtual exchange initiatives" showcases the perspectives of experienced VE instructors from across the U.S. and Mexico on the challenges they have faced when implementing VE and the institutional...
For the third year, UF was one of the few U.S. institutions selected to
participate in the program “Expanding and Embedding COIL Virtual Exchange at Honduran and Central American Universities,” a regional partnership initiative supported by the United States Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Two UF faculty were selected to participate in the program: Dr. Paula Golombek, Clinical Professor in the Department of Linguistics, and Dr. Antonio Sajid López, Associate Instructional Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies. Both were matched with professors at Universidad Estatal a Distancia in Costa Rica. Dr. Golombek's project will be embedded in LIN3680: Modern English...
