Season of Gratitude: Debra Anderson
01/12/21

Source: UF News

It goes without saying that the past year has been like no other. Our faculty and staff have shown tremendous resolve and resilience through unprecedented challenges, and many have taken on extra work or applied their creativity in extraordinary ways to ensure the success of our departments, colleges and the university. Thank you to all of these exceptional individuals and teams who have shared their gifts and made a difference at the University of Florida this year.

Debra Anderson
Director, International Student Support Services, UF International Center

As...

Honors Student Named UF’s Second-Ever Schwarzman Scholar
01/12/21

Source: UF Honors Program

Matt Barocas will study for a Master’s degree in Global Affairs at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in China.

The University of Florida Honors Program is thrilled to announce that R. Matthew Barocas ’21 is named the second-ever Schwarzman Scholar from the University of Florida. A history and political science double major in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Barocas is one of the 4% of applicants admitted into the prestigious program’s Class of 2022.

The award will position Barocas for a career as a Foreign...

UF Ranks 19th in Study Abroad, 25th in Hosting International Students (pre COVID-19 pandemic)
12/04/20

UF Ranks 19th in Study Abroad, 25th in Hosting International Students (pre COVID-19 pandemic)

Dec. 4, 2020 (Gainesville FL) – The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) announced that according to the Open Doors 2020 report recently released by the Institute of International Education, the University of Florida ranked 19th in the number of students participating in Study Abroad in 2018-2019, and 25th place by institution type as a hosting institution for international students for academic year 2019-2020.

In 2018-19, the University of Florida sent 2,476 participants in study abroad programs and hosted 7,172 international students in...

2021 UF Global Health Case Competition Application Extended
12/03/20

UFGHCC is an opportunity for students from different colleges and departments at UF to come together to find solutions to relevant Global Health issues. Participants will use their knowledge gained through courses, research, internships, or other opportunities to find a solution to the case. The goal of this competition is to facilitate collaboration between students at UF and interdisciplinary research/problem-solving. 

There will 8-9 teams compromised of 5-6 members who are each from a different department/college. We are looking for a varied representation of departments/colleges in each team, so individuals will be randomly assigned to teams. Participants will be chosen based...

It Takes a Village by Marlow Sterling
10/27/20

Marlowe Starling, a Study Abroad Student Assistant and WUFT reporter, was accepted and published in the Earth Island Journal. Her article, "It Takes a Village," talks about the natural resource conservation in Tanzania. Marlowe has truly embraced the spirit of what it means to be a Global Gator and this publication comes as a result of her participation in an SFS study abroad program in Tanzania which focused on Wildlife...

(Virtual) International Education Week is Around the Corner: Please share your events with us!
10/13/20

International Education Week 2020: “Global Gators Take Action!”

November 16 – 20 will mark the celebration of International Education Week on
the UF campus

Under the theme “Global Gators Take Action!” the University of Florida is pleased to once again celebrate International Education Week (IEW). International Education Week

At a time when US academic institutions face enormous challenges to working internationally, the current realities also underline the fact that global collaborations in teaching and research are more important than ever. As we celebrate UF’s continued climb in the...

University of Florida among Peace Corps’ 2020 Top Ten Peace Corps Prep Certificate-Issuing Institutions
10/05/20

WASHINGTON – The Peace Corps announced this week that the University of Florida (UF) ranked No. 3 among Peace Corps Prep schools on the agency’s list of top certificate-issuing institutions in 2020. UF issued 35 Prep certificates to the graduating class of 2020. There were 305 Gators enrolled in the Peace Corps Prep program during the 2019-20 academic year.

Peace Corps Prep is a certificate program, which teaches students sector-specific skills, foreign language proficiency, intercultural competence, and leadership. While having a Peace Corps Prep certificate does not guarantee acceptance into the Peace Corps, enrolling in the program will help students be more competitive.

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Ilaria Capua Awarded Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize
09/28/20

Ilaria Capua, DVM, PhD, has been selected as winner of the Hypatia Prize for Life and Health Sciences by the Barcelona Knowledge Hub of the Academia Europaea. The award recognizes an outstanding researcher who has conducted their career primarily in Europe and at the highest international level, with strong influence on various fields of knowledge and a positive impact on society.

Dr. Capua is a full professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life...

Helping 524 Million Indians Rethink the Landscape of a Fundamental Human Act
09/22/20

Source: College of Design, Construction, and Planning

Representing the human rights activism group called Action India, Gouri Choudhury once proclaimed, “It’s a question of belief in human dignity, which somewhere along the line we seem to have lost.”

Luckily for more than 524 million people in India, University of Florida senior landscape architecture majors Xiaoyu (Nikki) Zheng and Kate Noel believe in human dignity more than ever.

As a result of their project entitled “Rethinking A Fundamental Human Act: Landscape as a Solution for Open Defecation,” the duo were recently named winners of...

UF ascends to No. 6 in U.S. News & World Report rankings
09/22/20

GAINESVILLE, Florida -- U.S. News & World Report today named the University of Florida the No. 6 public university in the country, continuing the university’s upward trajectory and placing it on the cusp of reaching its top-five goal.

The announcement marks the fourth consecutive year UF rose in the rankings for public universities, advancing from No. 14 in 2017 to No. 6 today. During the same period, UF leapt from No. 50 to No. 30 on the U.S. News National Universities list, which includes both public and private institutions.

The top 10 public universities are:

1 University of California, Los Angeles
2 University of California, Berkeley
3 University...

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