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Prof. Emeritus Sandy Berg Serves as Peer Reviewer for Peru’s Water Regulation Assessment

11/29/21

Sanford (Sandy) Berg, Professor Emeritus, Economics, and Senior Fellow, Public Utility Research Center, served as one of three Peer Reviewers for the OECD’s Assessment and Recommendations for Peru’s water and sanitation services regulator, Sunass. He participated in a series of Zoom interviews over three days and reviewed the Draft Report this November. He also participated in a regulatory conference where the results of the assessment were presented. He has been monitoring Peru’s key performance indicators since 1999, so this gave him a chance to bring his experience to bear on the challenging issues facing this developing nation. Last year he participated in a similar OECD assessment...

PURC Hosts Successful In-person International Training Program

11/29/21

The UF Public Utility Research Center hosted a successful in-person international training program where 11 countries came to Gainesville in October to study how their energy and broadband services can expand through the rest of the pandemic and afterward. This is the first time since January 2020 that the Public Utility Research Center has been able to bring multiple countries together to work on their most pressing infrastructure issues. The October program included 30 utility regulators and professionals from such places as diverse as The Bahamas, Mozambique, and Albania. This was the 48th program that PURC has provided the PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility...

Cross-Cultural Engineering Seminar Series Held by UF and Kyoto University

11/29/21

UF engineering faculty members, Jeremiah Blanchard, and Mariko Adachi of Kyoto University organized a cross-cultural engineering seminar series for students. Kevin Butler, Kansun Cho, Andrea Goncher, Hitomi Greenslet, Amanpreet Kapoor, Gloria Kim, and John Schueller were the other UF faculty. Takehiko Yokomine, Shu Seki, Kazuaki Yorozu, Kentaro Kaneko, Yosuke Komiyama, and Hiroshi Takatsu represented Kyoto University for the three seminars in October and three in November. The students attending the two-hour seminars were broken into small USA-Japan groups to discuss such topics as human-centered design, automation, signal processing linguistics, the future of the home, and technology...

UF International Virtual Exchange Faculty Cohort 2021

11/22/21

Congratulations to the fall 2021 Virtual Exchange Training faculty cohort. It's been an honor to work with all of you on the development of your virtual exchange projects.

▪	Colleen McEdwards,

▪	Ph.D. Michael Fitzgerald

▪	Martha Mwiinga MInstP

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AAU Releases Joint Statement Calling for National Strategy to Return International Student Enrollment to Pre-COVID-19 Levels

11/22/21

This week, AAU joined seven other higher education associations, including ACE, APLU, and IIE, in issuing a statement urging the U.S. government to develop and implement a national strategy to return international student enrollment and exchanges to pre-COVID-19 levels.

The joint statement coincided with the commencement of International Education Week and the release of the Open Doors 2021 Report on International Educational Exchange, which confirms the significant...

One Health UF at the Think20 Summit

11/08/21

From October 4th – 6th, the Think20 Summit was held in Milan, Italy. One of the Engagement Groups of the G20, the T20 “brings together leading think tanks and research centers from around the world, with the aim of contributing, through research and policy proposals, to the G20 Leaders’ reflections on the big issues related to global governance.”

On October 5th, the Director of the One Health Center Ilaria Capua was invited to speak on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Capua took this opportunity to share her “Seven Pandemic Teachings”, concepts that we should all take away from this transformative...

Latin America Writes Back 2.0: Political and Environmental Crisis M. Elizabeth Ginway (SPS) and Terry Harpold (English)

11/08/21

“Latin America Writes Back 2.0: Political and Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction” commemorates and extends UF’s landmark 2005 symposium, “Latin America Writes Back.” That symposium identified UF as an early pioneer in the growing field of Latin American SF studies and featured talks by author/scholar Edmundo Paz Soldán and scholar J. Andrew Brown. This new workshop brought back those key participants of the 2005 event and added other scholars and writers who are helping to shape the future of SF in the Caribbean, the Andean region, the Southern Cone, and Mexico, and Brazil.

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After the reading on Thursday afternoon by Gabriela Damián Miravete, we had a full day...

UF is a 20 Year Top Producer of Gilman Scholars

11/03/21

The University of Florida was recognized today by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for having produced the most Gilman recipients over the past twenty years in the Large Institution category.

259 students from the University of Florida received Gilman awards since 2001. “We are extremely pleased to be recognized for our efforts to practice diversity and inclusion as we build and implement education abroad programs for UF students. The Gilman scholarships unlock opportunities to prepare our Global Gators to assume leadership roles in their future careers, and to gain a better understanding of other cultures, languages, and societies,” said...

Dr. Hao Gan Awarded a UF Pellizzi Prize

11/03/21

Every two years the Club of Bologna under the sponsorship of FederUnacoma, the Italian Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Association, awards the Pellizzi Prize for the worldwide best Ph.D. dissertation in the area of agricultural machinery and mechanization. Dr. Hao Gan, who received his Ph.D. under the direction of Prof. Won-Suk "Daniel" Lee in UF's Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, was announced as the latest winner on October 22nd in Bologna. This is the third consecutive former UF student to win the award. The three winners were UF international students from Iran, South Korea, and China and are now assistant professors at the University of California-Davis,...

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage through the legacy of a 2021 Great Immigrant at UF/IFAS

10/25/21

Source: UF IFAS Blogs

At an early age, Pedro Sanchez expressed a fascination and passion for the soil on which he grew up in Cuba.

More specifically, he was drawn to the deep rust colors of the island’s tropical soil. That same soil that stained his play clothes was where he learned to grow fruit on his family’s farm in Caimito del Guayabal.

“One of my fondest memories as a child is playing with the rich red soil, curious about its color and properties at my family’s business,” he said.

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