The University of Florida 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.
Five UF’s scholars were awarded Fulbright...
The Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department has started Conexão UF, a biweekly column being featured in the latest Consulate General of Brazil in Miami news bulletin. Their Portuguese student interns (Victoria, Megan, and Nicole) will be contributing to the column and getting the opportunity to work on their Portuguese language skills while connecting with the Brazilian community in Florida and promoting UF.
To read more about the interns and their first column, click here.
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As the fully-online pathway to a University of Florida degree, UF Online welcomes students from around the world to earn a nationally-ranked education right from their home. With 25 fully online degree pathways, students worldwide can join the Gator Nation without compromising quality due to their location. UF Online is proud to have Gators in over 16 countries pursuing their bachelor’s degrees.
In this edition of “A Gator’s Perspective,” Mariano Aguilar, a recent graduate of UF Online’s Microbiology & Cell Science program, shares what his experience...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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-...
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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...
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.
