Buses, Banners and Learning without Borders
09/24/18

The UF International Center announced the launch of its Fall 2018 “Learning without Borders (LWB)” campaign featuring 42 light pole banners displayed around UF campus, two RTS wrapped buses (routes #21/Reitz to Cabana Beach, and #35/Reitz to SW 35th Place) and half page ads in both “New Student” and “Welcome Back” editions of the Alligator newspaper. This promotional effort seeks to bring awareness about the Learning without Borders initiative, an institutional endeavor that internationalizes the undergraduate experience and supports faculty and staff by offering opportunities to extend their research and careers globally.

To help amplify this initiative, colorful banners...

The Regional Training Course in Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment
09/17/18

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...

Mark Brenner Collaborates with La Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
09/17/18

For more than 25 years, Dr. Mark Brenner has collaborated with la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan with research and the summer course that UF coordinates with la Maxima Casa de Estudios. 
In an interview, Dr. Brenner commented that he has been in charge of the course since 1993, bringing students from Florida to meet the communities in the Yucatan state and increase their knowledge within a short time period. He says that the project is very enriching, not only because the students from Florida get to learn, but also because the students from UADY obtain knowledge of English as well as other topics. 
Dr. Brenner has training in as a zoologist, but has also developed himself...

UF Student Shares Her Experience in Nigeria Through Fulbright Hays Yoruba Group Project Abroad
09/17/18

Mo ki yin oo, inú mi dùn láti rí gbogbo yin. Oruko mi ni Amanda Baret. In the preceding sentence I said "Hello everyone it is nice to meet you all. My name is Amanda Baret" in Yoruba. Or you can call me Arike which means one to take care of.

I had the greatest opportunity to travel to Ibadan, Nigeria in summer of 2018 as part of the Fulbright Hays Yoruba Group Project Abroad (YGPA). YGPA is determined to provide students who take any Yoruba language course an opportunity to learn Yoruba at an advanced level by immersing students in the realm of Yoruba culture. Which includes the, traditions, customs, Yoruba films, and it’s delicious food! Through these daily cultural...

UF International Center Releases #YouAreWelcomeHere Video
09/12/18

Reaffirming Support to International Students

GAINESVILLE, FL (9/11/2018) -The UF International Center (UFIC) announced the launch of its video #YouAreWelcomeHere – University of Florida.

The #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign is a welcome message from U.S. higher education institutions to international students around the world. UF has joined this campaign to affirm that it is a diverse, friendly and safe institution committed to student development.

The video emphasizes the life of three UF international students, the benefits of hosting international students and the services provided by the International Center. UF admitted almost 2,700 new...

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...

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