Prof. Muthusami Kumaran Receives DOS Grant to Train NGO Leaders in Kyrgyzstan
09/09/24

Dr. Muthusami Kumaran, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management & Community Organizations, Department of Family, Youth & Community Sciences (FYCS), CALS/IFAS has just received a grant from the U. S. Embassy – Bishkek for a project to train NGO/nonprofit leaders in the Kyrgyz Republic, Central Asia. 

During this six-month grant project, Dr. Kumaran will train 100 NGO leaders from the capital city of Bishkek and two other cities of Osh and Karakol across Kyrgyzstan to enhance their organizational management skills for resource mobilization and community relations. 

“By their very nature and through their mission focus, NGOs build the capacity of their clients...

Shahla Masood, MD, was Honored in Italy for Breast Cancer Advocacy
09/09/24

Dr. Shahla Masood with the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, at Annual “Rome Race for the Cure”, May 12, 2024 in Rome, Italy.

Shahla Masood, MD, FCAP, Professor and Chair in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UF College of Medicine Jacksonville and Medical Director, UF Health Jacksonville Breast Center, was honored at the 25th anniversary of the Annual “Rome Race for the Cure”,
held May 9-12 in Rome, Italy.

As part of her “Global Breast Health Education” Program, Dr. Masood has directed the “Annual Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Disease” since 1995 to foster the concept of integrated breast health education across...

Professor Megan Mocko Expands Virtual Exchange Collaboration to Include Research Tutorial in Ecuador

 

For the past several years, Professor Megan Mocko from the Warrington College of Business has had an ongoing collaboration with Professor Ricardo Lopez from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador to implement a virtual exchange project between their classes, which has now been offered four times. This summer, their collaboration expanded when Professor Mocko was awarded funding from the UF International Center and the Center for Latin American Studies to facilitate a ...

Literacy Programme Yields ‘Major’ Reading Improvements
09/03/24

Valentina Contesse, a visiting literacy expert, centre, is at Saltus providing teachers with professional development. Mark Pacheco, assistant professor at the School of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education at the University of Florida, left, and Jesse Sheppard, director of curriculum at Saltus (Photograph by Blaire Simmons)

Source: The Royal Gazette

By Sarah Lagan

A United States-based literacy expert this...

Forbes Ranks UF No. 4 Among the Nation’s Best Public Universities
09/03/24

The magazine also ranked UF among the top university investments in the country

Forbes has named the University of Florida the No. 4 public university in the nation and among the top institutions in the country for return on investment, according to rankings released today.  

In lists that include the country’s most renowned educational institutions, UF stood out for its ability “to offer students high earning potential with low debt burdens and a great return on their investment,”...

Professor Anna Calluori Holcombe Placed in The Fulbright Specialist Roster
08/26/24

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning informed that professor Emeritus of Ceramics, Anna Calluori Holcombe have been recommended by the Peer Review Panel for placement on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for a tenure of three years. Thus, the professor’s Roster tenure officially begins on 08/16/2024 and will end on 08/16/2027.

As a candidate on the Fulbright Specialist Roster, Anna Calluori Holcombe is now eligible to be matched with projects.

Congratulations for your achievements Anna!

ISS & ESS at F-1 Undergraduate and J-1 Exchange Students Orientation & Tabling

 

ISS and ESS hosted on Monday the F-1 Undergraduate and J-1 Exchange Students Orientation and Tabling at the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom. The event counted with campus tour, presentations by campus partners, F-1 and J-1 regulations to cover, as well as tabling by the campus partners, the SSA, and the ACTC (for FLHSMV). It was a busy and eventful day!

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Collaborative UF Virtual Exchange Project Wins Award
08/26/24

Professor Eugenia Garcia Sottile of the Universidad Catolica de Valencia (UCV) in Spain was recently awarded the Santander Award for Internationalisation: COIL UCV for the virtual exchange project that she, UF Professor Christine Wegner, and Professors Colleen Lotz and Chantell Gouws from Durban University of Technology in South Africa developed and implemented. Their project, ...

"Science Across Borders": Dr. Anthony Auletta presents on Virtual Exchange at NACTA Conference 2024
08/26/24

In June, Professor Auletta of the University of Florida's Entomology and Nematology Department attended the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) conference in which he presented on how to make international learning experiences accessible for all students through virtual exchange. In his presentation titled, "Science Across Borders: A Virtual Exchange Project to Make International Experiences More Accessible to Students', Professor Auletta shared both quantitative and qualitative data from the outcomes of this project which demonstrated the benefits of virtual exchange. In this project, students connected with entomology researchers from around the world and...

New Video featuring UF and Conestoga College Virtual Exchange
08/26/24

Prof. Sylvia Gethicker, Adjunct Instructor for UF CJC Online, and Prof. Sydney Pereira, Professor in the School of Business at Conestoga College, kicked off their VE collaboration with back-to-back VE implementations in the fall and spring of 2023-2024, after completing virtual exchange (VE) trainings at both UF and Conestoga College in Canada.

To hear how their project, ...

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