Vanessa Campoverde Shares Work with University of Philippines Los Baños
10/11/21

Vanessa Campoverde, a UF IFAS Extension agent working in Miami-Dade County with ornamental nurseries since 2011, will be sharing her experiences with Filipino researchers, students, and various stakeholders at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. Her lecture will focus on Integrated Pest Management of ornamental plant nurseries which are places where growers grow plants such as orchids, bromeliads, succulents, and overall foliage for offices and landscape like palms, flowering trees, etc.

Campoverde believes sharing her experiences is important because her nursery is #1 in ornamental plant production in Florida and the state of Florida is #1 in the US in foliage plant...

Mary Ann Eaverly Named Eos Africana Luminary
10/11/21

Mary Ann Eaverly, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named a Eos Luminary by Eos Africana for her groundbreaking scholarship on color and gender in Ancient Greece and Egypt. Luminaries are interviewed to offer a chance to reflect on the field and to identify ways to affect its future positively. Visit the Eos website to read the interview.

Katelyn Flaherty Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow
10/11/21

Katelyn Flaherty is a 4th year MD-PhD student in the Department of Environmental and Global Health. Her research focuses on pre-hospital care in low-and-middle income countries, specifically Ghana.

Globally, leading causes of death among children one month to 5 years old include respiratory infections, diarrheal disease, and malaria, all of which are highly treatable early in the disease-course yet frequently progress to emergencies in low-and-middle-income countries. Extending care to broad populations is a generalizable challenge that must be addressed to realize the WHO Sustainable Development Goals. The expansion of low-cost community healthcare services has improved access to...

Students of Portuguese Publish First Conexão UF Column of the Semester
10/11/21

Students of Portuguese publish first Conexão UF column of the semester Yasmin Faco Araujo and Eric Marsh, students of Portuguese under LAS Center affiliate Andréa Ferreira, published their first Portuguese-language column in the U.S.-Brazilian publication AcheiUSA. Read their column here.

University of Florida ranked No. 3 among more than 150 Peace Corps Prep partner universities
10/04/21

WASHINGTON – The Peace Corps announced today the University of Florida (UF) ranked No. 3 among schools on the agency’s list of top Peace Corps Prep certificate-issuing partners in 2021. UF issued 37 Peace Corps Prep certificates to the graduating class of 2021. There were 292 enrolled in the Peace Corps Prep program at UF during the 2020–21 academic year.

“At this pivotal time in our history, young people have a crucial role to play,” said Peace Corps Acting Director Carol Spahn. “Through the Peace Corps Prep program, these schools have equipped students with the skills and understanding necessary to help communities near and far recover from the multidimensional and global shocks...

UFLATM's Work on the Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon Project
10/04/21

The Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon project seeks to create, strengthen and expand a Community of Practice and Learning (COP-L) on the use of tools and strategies by conservation and development practitioners from NGOs, community organizations, government and academia. The GIA theory of change is that by bringing practitioners together to share experiences, reflect and dialogue, they will collaboratively learn and adapt, improve their use of tools and strategies to improve social-environmental governance, and thus be more effective at mitigating or stopping poorly planned infrastructure development.

The GIA project is led by an Executive Committee of faculty from UF’s...

UFIC Welcomes New Campus Peace Corps Recruiter, Hannah Jo Maier
09/27/21

UFIC is pleased to announce that Hannah Jo Maier is our new Campus Peace Corps Recruiter as of August.

Hannah Jo received her B.S. in Environmental Science at the University of Michigan in 2018. After graduation, Hannah Jo worked as a field assistant for the Sea Turtle Conservancy in Panama, where she collected sea turtle nesting data to measure the efficacy of conservation projects in the area . From 2019-2020, Hannah Jo served in the U.S. Peace Corps as a volunteer in the Education sector. She worked in an indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, teaching English as a Foreign Language under the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education and developing rural tourism projects with the...

Dr. Elischer Publishes New Book "Salafism and Political Order in Africa"
09/27/21

Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent the formation or curb the spread of homegrown jihadi Salafi organizations. In this book, Sebastian Elischer provides a comparative analysis of how different West and East African states have engaged with fundamentalist Muslim groups between the 1950s and today. In doing so, he establishes a causal link between state-imposed organizational gatekeepers in the Islamic sphere and the absence of homegrown jihadi Salafism. Illustrating that the...

What is the Moon Festival? A scholar of Chinese religions explains
09/27/21

Source: The Conversation

With the arrival of September and hints of cooler temperatures also comes one of the most important traditional festivals in the Chinese calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Zhongqiu jie (中秋節), also known as the Moon Festival.

At this time of the year, the Chinese store down the road from our home in Gainesville, Florida, is stocked with mooncakes, known in Chinese as yuebing (月餅). The same is true of Chinese stores around the world. There is even the option these days of buying these desserts from online retailers such...

Hispanic Heritage Month Highlight: Dr. Gladys Velarde
09/20/21

Source: American College of Cardiology

The need to help others in a country with scarce resources, my love for science and the image of my older brother Carlos as a medical student were my initial inspirations to be a doctor.

At the age of 9, I lost my father to vascular complications. I never really knew the cause of his death; he was a heavy smoker and died shortly after an aorto-femoral arterial bypass.

I remember my father would take me for walks and at...

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