UF Awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Top Producer
02/23/21

The University of Florida International Center 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.

“We are delighted to see that the colleges and universities we are honoring as 2020-2021 Fulbright Top Producing Institutions reflect the geographic and institutional diversity of higher education in the United States...

Fulbright Awareness Week Will Be Celebrated on UF Campus (March 1-5)
02/20/21

The International Center is pleased to announce that Fulbright Awareness Week will be celebrated from March 1-5, 2021. In collaboration with the UF Fulbright Lectures Committee, UF 

Honors, the Graduate School, College of Arts, UF IFAS, College of Education, Levin College of Law, Career Connections Center, and the North Florida Fulbright Alumni Association, 

multiple informational sessions for scholars, faculty, and staff will provide opportunities to learn about Fulbright, the application process, and to hear about the experiences of past Fulbright scholars and students. Despite the changes brought about by the pandemic, the Fulbright mission remains the same and the...

Race and History at the University of Florida Workshop Now Available on YouTube
02/16/21

On Friday, February 5, 2021, the IDEA Task Force, along with the UF International Center and the UF Libraries, hosted a webinar to discuss the history of race at the University of Florida through images from the UF Archives Photograph Collection.

The webinar was presented by Carl Van Ness and moderated by Twanna Hodge. Van Ness is a UF Historian, Florida Political Papers archivist in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections in the George A. Smathers libraries. He has served as the university's official historian since 2006 and had previously served as the university's archivist from 1997 to 2003. Twanna Hodge is the UF Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian....

Whose Global Modernism?
02/16/21

Kaira Cabañas’s (Art History) guest post “Whose Global Modernism?” and new book is featured by the University of California Press as part of the 2021 College Art Association Conference (#CAA2021) virtual exhibit. In the post, Cabañas speaks to the book’s origins, her intellectual refusals, and describes the work as an instance of “epistemic disobedience” (following Walter Mignolo) within modernist art history. Cabañas’s book, Immanent Vitalities: Matters of Modern and Contemporary Art, was published this month as part of the press’s “Studies in Latin American Art” series. Immanent Vitalities reflects the author’s dual expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century European and Latin...

Prof. Muthusami Kumaran Helps NGO Sector in Belize
02/16/21

Dr. Muthusami Kumaran, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management & Community Organizations, Department of Family, Youth & Community Sciences, CALS/IFAS, has been assisting the NGO sector in Belize during the past two years through a grant funded by the U.S. Embassy - Belize. Entitled “Strengthening Civil Society and Civil Servant Capacity in Belize through Partnership,” this grant project’s primary purpose is to train 100 NGO leaders and 60 civil servants through technical workshops and various hands-on activities for organizational management capacity building and collaborative partnerships.

This project’s innovative approaches include: providing basic & advanced-...

Anti-racism repository amplifies voices and promotes collaboration
02/02/21

Source: UF College of the Arts

Researchers, staff, and students from the UF Center for Arts in Medicine launched an online repository to elevate arts-based responses to racism.

The searchable, open-access database allows anyone to explore or submit artwork, articles, projects, organizations, and individuals who are using arts practices to raise awareness, amplify marginalized voices, facilitate dialogue, or promote action and change related to anti-racism.

Natalie Rella, communications coordinator, said the idea stemmed from the...

Global Photo Exhibit Extended Through February 26th!
01/26/21

The University Galleries announced the extension of the Global Culture Photo 2020 exhibition through February 26th, 2021. If you have not had the chance to enjoy this outstanding photographic display, please make sure to stop by Grinter Hall. The winning photographs from UF International Center's Global Culture Photo Contest will be on display in the Constance and Linton Grinter Gallery of International Art at the University of Florida. For more information please visit here.

CAS Graduate Student Nick Dowhaniuk Publishes in International Journal for Equity in Health
01/26/21

Nick Dowhaniuk (PhD Candidate, Dept. of Geography) published a new article in the International Journal for Equity in Health, titled “Exploring country-wide equitable government health care facility access in Uganda.”

Abstract:
Rural access to health care remains a challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa due to urban bias, social determinants of health, and transportation-related barriers. Health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa often lack equity, leaving disproportionately less health center access for the...

Licínio Nunes de Miranda (UFIC's RAD program participant) Makes Important Historic Discovery in Brazil
01/12/21

Licínio Nunes de Miranda, Brazilian PhD candidate at the Department of History and participant of UFIC's Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RAD) program awardee was very productive this past year! Licínio was able to discover the forgotten tomb of one of the most important abolitionists in Brazil, an Afro-Brazilian fisherman who was essential to the movement against slavery. The discovery was widely reported by Brazilian media, including the two main newspapers in...

Eric Esterline and Roxane Coche are Recognized for Innovative Virtual Partnership with University of Brighton
01/12/21

Source: College of Journalism and Communications News

A virtual exchange project between the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and the University of Brighton is a finalist for Innovation of the Year in the 2020 National Council for the...

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