Source: UF College of the Arts

A former actor of the Constans Theatre stage, Afsheen Misaghi (MFA Acting '19) can now be seen in a new role: teaching English to college students in Ankara, Turkey. After graduating from UF with stage credits like Caliban in Rough Magic and Florence in The Colored Museum, Misaghi was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, the U.S. Government’s flagship international educational exchange and most prestigious grant program. Misaghi serves as an English Teaching Assistant as part of the student division of Fulbright,...

Source: New York Times

The assault was swift and sustained: 500 Stormtroopers stood on the Great Wall. X-Wings swooped into Shanghai and Beijing. Lightsabers crackled in theaters across the country.

And millions of moviegoers responded: This again? Who cares?

One after another, “Star Wars” movies have flopped in China, defying efforts to bring one of the most successful franchises in history into a market that has printed money for the heroes, monsters and robots of other films. The latest “Star Wars” movie, “The Rise of Skywalker,” has followed the trend by grossing nearly a...

The Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project (FPRDNP) has officially come to an end. A collaborative $923,000 project between the University of Florida (UF) George A. Smathers Libraries and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (UPR-RP) library system, the FPRDNP has provided access to hundreds of digitized pages of historic newspapers from Florida and Puerto Rico that were previously found only on microfilm.

Though the FPRNDP has ended, newspaper digitization efforts for the state and its Caribbean partners continue. In August 2019, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the UF Libraries $309,000 (bringing the project total to over $1.2million) to...

UF Fulbright Programs invites everyone to “My Fulbright in 7 Minutes” to be held on Thursday, January 30, 2020 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the UF International Center (The Hub). Presentations are concise and fast-paced! Join us for a time to network with U.S. and international Fulbright participants. Light refreshments will be served.

This event will allow participants to learn more about the Fulbright Program by listening to speakers who are participating in the program and furthering their studies and research in education technology, wildlife conservation, and design and visual communication. The Fulbright Program provides merit-based grants for international...