Since 2007, Galina has served the Gainesville community by tirelessly working with numerous professional Russian-speaking delegations in Gainesville as part of the Congressional Office of International Leadership’s “Open World” program, as well as sister city delegations, connecting Gainesville institutions, organizations and individuals with their counterparts in Gainesville’s nine sister cities. Galina has been an active participant of the Open World program for 14 years, hosting 20 delegations, including federal judges, political leaders, educators and other high-level professionals. Sponsored by the Congressional Office for International Leadership and the State Department, the Open...
01/18/22
The Global Learning Institute equips faculty with tools to internationalize their courses through engagement with campus resources, technology, and collaboration with other faculty members who share a commitment to global learning. Upon completion of the program, faculty receive an award of $5,000 in professional development funds.
This year the Global Learning Institute participants include a very select group of faculty members from a variety of disciplines. Despite their diverse disciplinary backgrounds, they all share a strong commitment to helping UF students understand the complexities of a highly globalized world, and to function competently and responsibly in that context...
01/10/22
Source: Daily Commercial
4-H is the largest positive youth development program globally and is delivered by Cooperative Extension through more than 100 public universities. For more than 100 years, 4-H has provided experiences where kids learn by doing. There are over 70 independent, country-led 4-H programs around the world. Worldwide, there are almost seven million 4-H'ers. 4-H has the goal of reaching 20 million members internationally by 2025.
In 4-H programs, youth complete hands-on projects in various areas like agriculture,...
12/06/21
On Tuesday, November 30, Dr. Celso L. Moretti, President of EMBRAPA, and Dr. Alexandre Varella, Coordinator of EMBRAPA LabEx USA, visited the International Center to renew the Memorandum of Understanding between UF and EMBRAPA.
To learn more about the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), visit their website.
12/06/21
November 3rd was International One Health Day, and the One Health Student Association celebrated with two exciting events during the week.
On November 1st, they held an interdisciplinary panel of experts at UF to discuss anti-microbial resistance. By facilitating this important conversation between students, faculty, and the general community, the OHSA made this panel a huge success, supporting education, awareness, and networking. Read more about...
11/29/21
Sanford (Sandy) Berg, Professor Emeritus, Economics, and Senior Fellow, Public Utility Research Center, served as one of three Peer Reviewers for the OECD’s Assessment and Recommendations for Peru’s water and sanitation services regulator, Sunass. He participated in a series of Zoom interviews over three days and reviewed the Draft Report this November. He also participated in a regulatory conference where the results of the assessment were presented. He has been monitoring Peru’s key performance indicators since 1999, so this gave him a chance to bring his experience to bear on the challenging issues facing this developing nation. Last year he participated in a similar OECD assessment...
11/29/21
The UF Public Utility Research Center hosted a successful in-person international training program where 11 countries came to Gainesville in October to study how their energy and broadband services can expand through the rest of the pandemic and afterward. This is the first time since January 2020 that the Public Utility Research Center has been able to bring multiple countries together to work on their most pressing infrastructure issues. The October program included 30 utility regulators and professionals from such places as diverse as The Bahamas, Mozambique, and Albania. This was the 48th program that PURC has provided the PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility...
11/29/21
UF engineering faculty members, Jeremiah Blanchard, and Mariko Adachi of Kyoto University organized a cross-cultural engineering seminar series for students. Kevin Butler, Kansun Cho, Andrea Goncher, Hitomi Greenslet, Amanpreet Kapoor, Gloria Kim, and John Schueller were the other UF faculty. Takehiko Yokomine, Shu Seki, Kazuaki Yorozu, Kentaro Kaneko, Yosuke Komiyama, and Hiroshi Takatsu represented Kyoto University for the three seminars in October and three in November. The students attending the two-hour seminars were broken into small USA-Japan groups to discuss such topics as human-centered design, automation, signal processing linguistics, the future of the home, and technology...
11/22/21
Congratulations to the fall 2021 Virtual Exchange Training faculty cohort. It's been an honor to work with all of you on the development of your virtual exchange projects.
| ▪ | Colleen McEdwards, |
| ▪ | Ph.D. Michael Fitzgerald |
| ▪ | Martha Mwiinga MInstP |
| ▪ | Dr. Meena Laad |
