On September 18, 2018, the University of Florida International Center hosted a virtual exchange faculty showcase. This event was organized by the UF Collaborative International Teaching Network (CITN) with the sponsorship of the Creative Campus and Learning without Borders initiatives.

The event featured nine faculty presenters who shared their experiences connecting their students with faculty and students from around the world through online collaboration. Over sixty faculty and staff members from multiple units across UF attended this exchange of ideas.

Individuals interested in learning more about virtual exchange are invited to the next workshop to be held this...

The UF International Center was recently recognized for increased donations during the UF Campaign for Charities. Our own Vanessa Fayo was also recognized as Outstanding Volunteer 2017. Congrats Vanessa, and thank you for your service and for representing us so well!

SA+AH professor Kaira M. Cabañas’s Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art was published by the University of Chicago Press. On account of this scholarly work, Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study, writes: “Kaira Cabañas’s study is an efficient antidote to what she calls the ‘monolingualism of the global’—the current tendency in modern and contemporary art institutions to welcome the art of the ‘other’ but only as framed by Western cultural codes…. She focuses on the extraordinary case of Brazil, where works of art produced by psychiatric patients were given a status similar to those of professional artists…. Goethe’s motto, ‘What is inside, is...

For many African states, reports of diminishing fisheries are increasingly common particularly for fish species that are highly targeted in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing sectors. The challenge is further exacerbated by the presence of limited data and information on the stock status for majority of these fisheries. In addition, there is limited capacity to conduct comprehensive fisheries stock assessments in coastal and island states which directly impacts the sustainable management of fisheries resources.

Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop and improve expertise in data collection and quantitative fisheries assessment. This was the major motivation...