Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tested by four years of hostile U.S. government policy toward international students and battered by a pandemic that slammed shut borders, international-education administrators gathering this week in Denver were weary yet optimistic about the future of the field.
“The world needs international educators,” said Esther D. Brimmer, executive director of NAFSA...
Professor Emeritus Sanford Berg from the Economics Department in the Warrington College of Business served as an external reviewer of this report, interviewing stakeholders affected by the new water regulatory system implemented in Brazil in 2020. The review was provided in four presentations and included analyses of stakeholders' views of the new system, its implementation, and its potential impacts.
The National Science Foundation Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, stopped to visit the University of Florida campus. During his visit, UF Research hosted a campus conversation with the director to discuss NSF's priorities and opportunities for researchers. UF Vice President for Research, Dr. David Norton, shared his thoughts on the visit through a tweet that read:
"@UF was honored to host @NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on our campus this week. Your energy, clarity, and optimism are infectious and inspiring. Many thanks for spending the day with us and for your...
Dr. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, Jessica L. English, Angelibel Soto, and Melissa Jerome co-wrote a chapter titled “Contesting Colonial Library Practices of Accessibility and Representation,” in Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation, edited by Mary Kandiuk. (Sacramento CA: Library Juice Press, 2020).
This chapter discusses how Library and Information Science (LIS) specialists at the University of Florida (UF) navigate the challenges of the colonialist and hegemonic nature of archives and the aspiration of special collections to be sites of contestation. It describes the development of UF’s Latin American and Caribbean Collection and the Digital Library of the...
Source: UF at Work
While the Asian Faculty and Staff Association, or AFSA, is not new to the University of Florida, engagement within the association has waned over the years. By the time the pandemic started in 2020, the AFSA was no longer active. The pandemic, however, reminded former members why an association like the AFSA is important for the UF community.
The number of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States increased by 77% from 2019 to 2020, and more than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents were reported between March 2020 and June 2021....
The University of Florida and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAMI) signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU).
The agreement is good for five years and is with the College of Medicine, Department of Radiology. The interaction between the University of Florida Division of Radiological Physics (UF DRP) and the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAMI) began in December 2019 when Dr. Manuel Arreola was invited to participate in the 1st Symposium on Clinical Medical Physics held at UAMI in Mexico City. This was further strengthened as the two institutions had two virtual Medical Physics Review courses; one in May 2020 and the second in...
OHSA and the One Health Center hosted an interdisciplinary panel discussion to discuss combating climate change. The panelists were from ecology and environmental engineering to psychology and economics. The objective was to learn about the causes and impacts of climate change through the lens of a variety of fields. It was possible to discover potentially collaborative solutions for this urgent, global phenomenon in a pandemic-driven environment. The idea of a sustainable future may not be that clear but we are sure that all minds must be part of the solution. Taking a plastic fork home after the event was to demonstrate how convenient changes to lifestyles may be. The change we seek...
In March, the Gator Citrus Club, a student organization at the Horticultural Sciences Department (HOS), visited the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) as well as research institutes, and agribusinesses in the area of Valencia, Spain. Faculty and students from the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) participated in this international academic trip. Dr. Davie Kadyampakeni (Soil and Water Department) gave a seminar and Ph.D. student Neus Alcon (HOS...
Dr. Karen Reed, RN, CNE, CNL, CRRN, University of Florida College of Nursing, has been accepted for placement on the US Fulbright Specialist Roster for a tenure of four years. During that 4-year period, she can participate in up to two projects of 2-6 weeks in length. There are 150 countries that participate in the program. The US Fulbright Specialist Program brings together the expertise of a US Scholar or professional to an international institution requesting assistance for a specific academic project. Typically, Specialists serve as...
Source: Washington Post
Prominent U.S. colleges and universities are reporting a surge in international applications over the past two years, fueled by the easing of pandemic travel restrictions and new policies that allow potential students to apply without SAT or ACT scores.
The Common Application, an online platform for hundreds of schools, found that as of March 15 the number of international applicants had grown 34 percent since 2020. That far exceeded the 12 percent rate of growth for U.S. applicants.
The data reveals a...
