Meet The Entomologist Traversing The Tropics to Understand Insect Histories
09/05/18

Source: UF News

Somewhere in the middle of the South Pacific, the search is on for a rare butterfly. Armed with an oversized net and a machete, Emmanuel Toussaint has just two weeks in February to locate the species from deep within the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. If he finds it, it will be only the third reported sighting in history. The Marquesan snout butterfly, Libythea collenettei, is the sole endemic butterfly known to exist on the islands. Only five samples have ever been collected.

Toussaint, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, is no...

Enrollment: More UF Students, But Fewer in Grad School
09/05/18

Source: Gainesville Sun

University of Florida enrollment for the fall 2018 semester is up slightly compared to a year ago, but there are fewer students on campus. Graduate enrollment, however, decreased by 4.3 percent.

The drop in graduate students — from 11,895 to 11,384 — amounts to a 4.3 percent decrease. In his address to the Faculty Senate last week, UF President Kent Fuchs mentioned concern about the decline in international graduate students due to federal policies. UF Provost Joe Glover said it’s too early to know more specific reasons for the...

50 Years of African Languages at UF
08/27/18

Source: UF News

On a sunny day on the Plaza of the Americas, Professor Kole Odutola walks between groups of students handing out slips of paper inviting them to take YOR 1130, his beginning Yorùbá class. The class is five days a week, five credits, and it's not easy. But Odutola, who has been teaching at the University of Florida since 2006, promises prospective students that they'll learn more than words and phrases while studying Yorùbá.

"It's a class where you learn how to learn,” he says. “That's one thing that school doesn't teach you — how do you learn? How do...

University of Florida Term Professorship Award Recipients for 2018-2021

Rori Bloom, Ingrid Kleespies, Eric Kligerman, Galina Rylkova, and Gayle Zachmann have been selected to receive the University of Florida Term Professorship award for 2018-2021.

These three-year professorships were created by UF to recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field.

The research area of each professor varies: 
* Ingrid Kleespies: 18th and 19th-century Russian literature and culture; Romanticism; intellectual history; Russian frontier mythologies; the Soviet avant-garde. 
* Rori Bloom: theories and histories of authorship, the libertine novel,...

UF African Studies, European Studies, and Latin American Studies Receive Major Title VI Grants

GAINESVILLE, FL – The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) is pleased to announce that the Centers for African Studies (CAS), European Studies (CES), and Latin American Studies (LAS) have collectively received over $5.9 million from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI program, an increase of almost a million dollars compared to last period. The three area studies centers will support international research, public programming and training initiatives in collaboration with faculty across campus and experts...

UFIC's 2018 Global Engagement Report Available in Print and Online
08/27/18

The University of Florida International Center recently released the 2018 Global Engagement Report. Inside the report is a message from Dean Leonardo A. Villalón, as well as statistics and highlights about our services to international and exchange students, study abroad, international visitors and faculty. You will also find the 2018 Learning Without Borders report, looking back at four successful years, their impact and plans for the future. Be on the lookout for a copy in your mailbox or check out our web versions here.

Staff from UFIC and CRC Co-Present on e-Portfolios at Career Integration Conference
08/20/18

Staff from UFIC and the Career Connections Center co-present at the Career Integration conference in DC to discuss the impact of e-portfolios in internships abroad.

Presenters: Andie Cochran (UF CCC), Paloma Rodriguez (UFIC) and Ann Hubbard (AIFS). Also part of the UF cohort attending this conference with the sponsorship of the Learning Without Borders initiatives: Melissa Johnson (Honors), Julia Fleming (CCC), Sarah Eberhart (HHP), and Nicholas Mrozinkske (CLAS).

Center for Global Islamic Studies Welcomes Dr. Benedikt Pontzen
08/20/18

The Center for Global Islamic Studies wanst to welcome Dr. Benedikt Pontzen. Dr Pontzen, an anthropologist, who has conducted extensive research on Islam and African "traditional" religion in Ghana, as well as earlier research in Mali, is joining the Center for Global Islamic Studies, the Department of Religion, and the Center for African Studies as a Postdoctoral Associate in the project, "Islam in Africa in Global Context," funded through the ...

UFIC's Global Photo Contest is Now Open!
07/31/18

Photo Credit: Ruoya Yu                         

The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) invites students, faculty, staff and alumni to enter its annual international photography contest. There are three categories this year. Each entrant may submit up to two digital photos in only one chosen category. All photographs must portray the theme "Global Culture" and not display your use of alcohol, cigarettes, drugs or any inappropriate content or behavior. Unedited photos preferred, but minimally edited photos will be accepted. Showing your Global Gator spirit and wearing UF colors/...

Professors Tanya Saunders and Manoucheka Celeste Received Research-into-Teaching Grant
07/02/18

Congratulations to Dr. Tanya Saunders (Latin American Studies) and Dr. Manoucheka Celeste (African American Studies), for receiving the Intersections: Research-into-Teaching Grant for their project, “How does Blackness travel locally and across the globe?” The grant, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is awarded by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.

“Intersections Groups demonstrate the urgency for scholars to mobilize interdisciplinary collaboration with the humanities in order to respond to grand challenges,” says Prof. Barbara Mennel, Interim Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. “Importantly, the Intersections Groups will...

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