UF Gators Participate in Fulbright Nigeria Program
08/22/22

This summer, two UF Gators, Deborah Ogunmodede and Yewande O. Addie, participated in the Fulbright-Hays Intensive Advanced Yoruba Group Project Abroad (YGPA). The summer immersion program was hosted at the University of Ibadan’s Yoruba Language Centre in southwest Nigeria. The program is funded by the United States Department of Education through Fulbright-Hays fellowships and offers American college/university students a rare opportunity to learn Yoruba among the native speakers in Nigeria.

Ogunmodede is a junior health science student from Miami, Florida and one of the cooking director’s in UF’s African Student Union. Addie is a Spring 2022 PhD graduate from ...

UF & AMU in Poland Conduct Cross-Cultural Investigations
08/22/22

During the 2022 Spring and Summer semesters, UF Department of Psychology professor, Dr. Marina Klimenko, conducted a cross-cultural investigation alongside an undergraduate psychology student, Amy Pezoldt, and four students from the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poland. The goal of the investigation was to examine potential cultural similarities and differences in the expression of romantic ideals in romantic teen drama films.

As a result of the ongoing collaboration between AMU Philosophy Department faculty members, ...

UF delegation Forges Partnership with Jordanian Universities
08/15/22

A UF faculty delegation, represented by Adegbola Adesogan, Samira Daroub, Gregory Kiker, Nargiza Ludgate, and Rafael Munoz Carpena, attended a two-day conference in Jordan held within the framework of the University Cooperation Network (UCN). UCN is a network of twenty Jordanian and U.S. universities aimed at strengthening strategic and long-term institutional collaboration in research and teaching between universities and developing new mechanisms for bilateral cooperation that enhance the productivity and impact of university linkages. The University of Florida is one of the founding members of the UCN.

The conference entitled New Approaches to US-Jordan University Collaboration...

UF Construction Management Visits Kurdistan
08/15/22

UF's DCP Construction Management recently visited the American University of Kurdistan (AUK), the University of Duhok (UOD), the University of
Kurdistan Hewler (UKH), and the University of Zakho. During this visit, the University of Kurdistan Hewler proposed a 2-week summer program for their college students to come to UF to learn about the UF/US higher education system, cultural understanding, and graduate programs at UF.

The UF College of Design, Construction and Planning has a two-year grant with AUK and has contributed to building a strong relationship and collaboration between the faculty of AUK and DCP. We offered many pieces of training, establishing BIM Lab and...

A message from Dr. Wayne, new dean of the International Center
08/10/22

“I am honored to have been selected to lead the UF International Center, and to follow Dean Villalón! The Center has thrived under his leadership, and I am looking forward to building on his and the Center staff’s achievements.

It is hard to imagine a more urgent time for international engagement. We face global challenges from pandemics to climate change to food shortages, challenges that no individual nation can solve on their own. We are poised at the edge of the fourth industrial revolution. AI and associated technologies could help the world solve global problems, or worsen them by exacerbating inequality. It’s an important and exciting period for all of us to be involved in...

Summer Berlin Study Abroad Provided Field Research Ops to Photography Students
08/10/22

Professor John Freeman led this study-abroad course to Berlin from May 13 to May 26, 2022. It was the 16th summer he helped students conduct field research to document the spirit and vitality of the city where he attended high school as an "Air Force brat." At the peak of the Cold War, 1968 to 1971, Freeman lived in West Berlin, surrounded by the Wall, a barrier he thought would never fall. The idea of returning to a free and unified Berlin with students came to him on sabbatical from UF in Fall 2004.

During the two-week course, 12 students were introduced to the city through bicycle and walking tours,...

A message from Dr. Wayne, new dean of the International Center
Fernando Sckaff Accepted to Station1 Frontiers Fellowship
07/25/22

Congratulations to Fernando Sckaff Santos Lazaro, Computer Science Major at the University of Florida, on his acceptance to the 2022 Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF)!

Station1 is a nonprofit higher education institution, founded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, that is paving a pathway of opportunity through a new model of learning and research - socially-directed science and technology. This model integrates science and technology with humanistic fields and the social sciences in order to interrogate, understand, and shape technologically-driven societal impact towards more...

José Valentino Ruiz and Students Receive Silver Medal Outstanding Achievement Award, Vocal Jazz Album Category, at The Global Music® Awards
07/25/22

José Valentino Ruiz, Assistant Professor of Music Business and Entrepreneurship in the School of Music, College of the Arts, and students have been awarded the Silver Medal Outstanding Achievement Award in the Vocal Jazz Album category for the album, "A Carpenter from Chicago". The albums reimagines the music of The Carpenters and Wayne Shorter with arrangements inspired by African-Diaspora musical genres.

Debra Anderson's Story: She gave her life to serve international students, they gave her a new life in return
07/12/22

Source: Katie Hyson, WUFT

Debra Anderson agreed to a profile on one condition – it couldn’t be about her.

Anderson retired this summer after 22 years of working for the University of Florida’s International Center (after successfully demanding the dean turn her retirement party into a staff-wide appreciation instead).

I worked alongside her there for several years, in a different department.

Though she supervised nearly a dozen staff as director of International Student Services, she was the one to sleep on an...

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