$1.2 Million Digitization Project Expands Access to Newspapers in Florida and the Caribbean
01/22/20

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...

UFIC Inaugurates Global Learning Institute and Congratulates First Cohort
01/15/20

The UF International Center is pleased to announce the start of its Global Learning Institute (GLI) and congratulates all 2020 Awardees!

The Global Learning Institute gathers a select cohort of faculty members to engage in a semester-long curriculum internationalization program. Institute participants attend eight workshops and receive information on tools, resources, and techniques to make their on-campus courses more global.

Congratulations to all GLI 2020 Awardees

SARA AGNELLI

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, One Health Center of Excellence
  • Institute of...
My Fulbright in 7 Minutes
01/15/20

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...

UF International Center Releases Names of 2019 Global Awardees
11/20/19

Gainesville, FL 11/04/2019 – As UF continues to rise in the ranks of the nation’s top public universities, the UF International Center (UFIC) is keenly aware of the importance of our many global engagements in this effort. With that in mind, and in preparation for International Education Week 2019 (Nov. 18-22), UFIC is pleased to recognize the faculty, staff, and students who make the University of Florida “global and greater.”

International Educator of the Year Awards 2019

The International...

The Lens Swept: Snapshots from My Land
11/14/19

Kole Odutola was born in Lagos, Nigeria, but now is a citizen of the world. From a career that evolved almost accidentally with a borrowed camera, Kole Odutola transformed himself from a graduate of Botany into a street photographer when his snapshots of everyday life led him to the curious power of the image. He continued to photograph until his work caught the eye of a magazine publisher who hired him to shoot pictures of Lagos for daily publication. Odutola despaired at first, suddenly on assignment to wander the mundane and familiar, and capture moments that tell stories without the need of texts. However, the challenge quickly ignited his natural curiosity, and he became a master of...

Recipients of Research Abroad for Doctoral Students Awards

Gainesville, FL (11/12/19) –The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RADs). All RADs recipients will be recognized during the annual International Education Week reception on Monday, November 18 at 5:30 PM at the UF Keene Faculty Center.

 

The RADs program provides support to doctoral candidates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to conduct an extended period of their dissertation research at a foreign laboratory or field-site. The Research Abroad for Doctoral Students initiative represents a collaborative effort of the University of Florida...

Flags Display and Expression Board
10/30/19

As we celebrate International Education Week Nov. 18 to 22, we invite you to join us in engaging the UF community during our Flags Display & Expression Board event, to be held Tuesday, Nov. 19 from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. at the Reitz Union North Lawn. Please contact emma728@ufl.edu to sign up!

If...

International Student Represented UF at BRASA Summit
10/28/19

Vinicius Martinson, an international student from Brazil, is a computer engineering student at the University of Florida. He was selected to moderate a panel in Boston for BRASA Summit, the largest Brazilian student conference in North America. Among other moderators from MIT and Harvard, Vinicius moderated a panel with IBM President (Latin America), VTex CEO and Vice-President of Technology and Research of Albert Einstein Hospital (most prestigious hospital in Brazil).

Vinicius was honored and proud to represent UF. Go Gators!

My Fulbright in 7 Minutes Provided Space for Networking and Research Showcase
10/28/19

“Nooks and Crannies in Oyster Clusters and their Species Diversity”

by Kwan Kim

Interstitial spaces between structures are used by prey species as a refuge and this affects the predator-prey interactions and local species diversity. To experimentally test this hypothesis, Kim will be artificially creating structures with different space morphologies to see how those various shapes of spaces can affect the species colonization over time. His presentation focused on the processes of preparing the experiment as well as results.

Kim is a Fulbright Ph.D. student from South Korea. He spent his childhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he witnessed the beauty of...

President Fuchs' Quote on Internationalization
09/17/19

"If we are to be one of the world’s great research universities, as we are, our research and our education must have meaningful connections to every group, every people, every culture across our planet. It is imperative that we remain committed to making sure every international student, every international applicant, and every potential applicant know that UF is a place that welcomes students from all nations and cultures and ethnicities.  We must work harder at being an inclusive university for our current and our potential students, as well as visiting staff and faculty from across the globe."

 

UF President Kent Fuchs

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