02/05/24

Source: The Independent Florida Alligator 
By Laura Quintana

Many non-English speakers arrive in the country without knowing basic things about the language, which creates problems when they can’t communicate with native English speakers.

The Latina Women’s League aims to empower the local Hispanic community through a variety of educational events and ...

01/29/24

Dr. Muthusami Kumaran (aka. Dr. K) has just published his book "Managing A Million Missions: Strategic Capacity Building for Non-Governmental Organizations." The purpose of this book is to improve overall organizational management capacities of NGOs (nonprofits) within a strategic framework in countries across the globe. As the primary author Dr. K wrote 15 of the book's 19 chapter and contributed to three other chapters, each focusing on a vital management function to enhance operational efficiency organizational and effectiveness in the NGO sector.

The book will be launched on February 3 at the Jaipur International Lecture Festival (known as the 'greatest library show on Earth...

01/29/24

Credit: AEI/MM/exozet

Source: UF Physics

Following today’s Adoption, the LISA mission advances to the construction phase.

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, has passed a major review with flying colours: the entire concept – from the definition of the overall mission and operations to the space hardware to be built – stood up to the intense scrutiny of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) reviewers. Now the space agency’s Science Programme Committee (SPC) has confirmed that LISA is sufficiently mature and that mission development can proceed as planned. LISA should go...

01/22/24

From Left to Right: Professors Celeste Wagner, David Herman, Kim Holton, Soohyoun Ahn, Tony Middlebrooks, Heather Stark, Feihong Wang, Rachel Carrico, Larisa Olesova, Salah Algabli

Last week, the Office of Global Learning kicked off the first session of the Spring 2024 Global Learning Institute with a tour of UFIC and a welcome message from Dean Marta Wayne. During this semester-long professional development program, faculty participants will ideate and discuss strategies to make their courses more global, while exploring a wealth of campus resources.

This semester, the faculty participants come from a wide variety of departments including the School of Theatre and...

01/15/24

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01/15/24

The University of Galway is Ireland’s only bilingual university. Photo by William Murphy.

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01/15/24

The International Center is pleased to announce the 2024 Study Abroad Leadership Program Faculty Cohort!

The Study Abroad Leadership Program (SALP) is a semester-long program that provides a cohort of 5-10 UF faculty with the training, tools, and funding to develop new and innovative faculty-led summer study abroad programs. Any faculty member with an idea for a new study abroad program that helps us meet this objective is encouraged to apply.

This leadership program consists of a series of workshops offered in the Spring semester with the goal of assisting faculty in developing a robust program proposal for the following summer (~ 1 year lead time)....

01/08/24

ISS and ESS hosted the F-1 Undergraduate and J-1 Exchange Students Orientation at the Career Connections Center in the Reitz Union. Attendees participated in a campus tour, presentations by our campus partners with a welcome by Dean Marta L. Wayne

01/08/24

Last Spring, Dr. Gabriele Tebaldi, professor from the University of Parma and the integral person who helped establish the ESSIE and UF Memoranda of Understanding between the University of Parma and UF ESSIE, suggested that ESSIE get involved with the MUNER program. Upon his suggestion, two delegates from the University of Florida Engineering School of Sustainable School of Infrastructure and Environment visited the University of Parma in late November 2023. The two delegates, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (Transportation Engineering) and Ms. Nancy McIlrath (ESSIE Graduate Academic Coordinator) visited to learn about and meet...

01/08/24

Source: UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering

In beautiful Cape Town, South Africa, a group from the University of Florida immersed themselves in the local culture in an effort to revolutionize the traditional study abroad experience. This unique opportunity combines elements of a traditional study abroad with an emphasis on service abroad. Instead of partnering with a university within Cape Town, the students partnered with three community organizations to provide information technology support and leverage their computer...

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