Source: New York Times

The assault was swift and sustained: 500 Stormtroopers stood on the Great Wall. X-Wings swooped into Shanghai and Beijing. Lightsabers crackled in theaters across the country.

And millions of moviegoers responded: This again? Who cares?

One after another, “Star Wars” movies have flopped in China, defying efforts to bring one of the most successful franchises in history into a market that has printed money for the heroes, monsters and robots of other films. The latest “Star Wars” movie, “The Rise of Skywalker,” has followed the trend by grossing nearly a...

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...

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...

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...