Kristen Stoner, UF Flute Professor, performs world premiere at XXXVII Festival Internacional de Flautistas in Lima, Peru
06/30/22

Dr. Kristen Stoner, invited guest artist at the XXXVII Festival Internacional de Flautistas, was the only musician from the United States to be featured. During the week-long Festival, she performed a duo concerto with orchestra, three quintets, a solo recital, and two works for flute orchestra. She also presented a masterclass for South American flute students attending the Festival and adjudicated an international flute competition. On her solo recital, she performed the world premiere of a new composition by Peruvian composer César Vivanco Sánchez, Capriccio Criollo sobre el tema "La Flor de la Canela" de Isabel Granda.

To view the world premiere, ...

UFIC Staff Appreciation Gelati
06/30/22

UFIC staff was treated with a sweet and deliziosa surprise to show appreciation for the hard work and passion they show every day to promote international education and engagement on campus. Everyone enjoyed Italian ice and ice cream from B'z Gelati, an independently owned and operated local food truck. Many thanks to Sara Williams (UFIC HR) for organizing!

Grazie a tutto il nostro meraviglioso staff per tutto quello che fai!

Thank you to all of our wonderful staff for all you do!

Live from NAFSA
06/07/22

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tested by four years of hostile U.S. government policy toward international students and battered by a pandemic that slammed shut borders, international-education administrators gathering this week in Denver were weary yet optimistic about the future of the field.

“The world needs international educators,” said Esther D. Brimmer, executive director of NAFSA...

Review of OECD Report “Fostering Water Resilience in Brazil, 2022”
06/07/22

Professor Emeritus Sanford Berg from the Economics Department in the Warrington College of Business served as an external reviewer of this report, interviewing stakeholders affected by the new water regulatory system implemented in Brazil in 2020. The review was provided in four presentations and included analyses of stakeholders' views of the new system, its implementation, and its potential impacts.

UF Campus Welcomes National Science Foundation Director
05/31/22

The National Science Foundation Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, stopped to visit the University of Florida campus. During his visit, UF Research hosted a campus conversation with the director to discuss NSF's priorities and opportunities for researchers. UF Vice President for Research, Dr. David Norton, shared his thoughts on the visit through a tweet that read: 

"@UF was honored to host @NSF  Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on our campus this week. Your energy, clarity, and optimism are infectious and inspiring. Many thanks for spending the day with us and for your...

UF Libraries Staff Co-Author Book Chapter
05/31/22

Dr. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, Jessica L. English, Angelibel Soto, and Melissa Jerome co-wrote a chapter titled “Contesting Colonial Library Practices of Accessibility and Representation,” in Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation, edited by Mary Kandiuk. (Sacramento CA: Library Juice Press, 2020).

This chapter discusses how Library and Information Science (LIS) specialists at the University of Florida (UF) navigate the challenges of the colonialist and hegemonic nature of archives and the aspiration of special collections to be sites of contestation. It describes the development of UF’s Latin American and Caribbean Collection and the Digital Library of the...

Renewing connections with the UF Asian Faculty and Staff Association
05/23/22

Source: UF at Work

While the Asian Faculty and Staff Association, or AFSA, is not new to the University of Florida, engagement within the association has waned over the years. By the time the pandemic started in 2020, the AFSA was no longer active. The pandemic, however, reminded former members why an association like the AFSA is important for the UF community.

The number of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States increased by 77% from 2019 to 2020, and more than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents were reported between March 2020 and June 2021....

UF and UAMI Sign New Memorandum of Understanding
05/23/22

The University of Florida and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAMI) signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU). 

The agreement is good for five years and is with the College of Medicine, Department of Radiology. The interaction between the University of Florida Division of Radiological Physics (UF DRP) and the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAMI) began in December 2019 when Dr. Manuel Arreola was invited to participate in the 1st Symposium on Clinical Medical Physics held at UAMI in Mexico City. This was further strengthened as the two institutions had two virtual Medical Physics Review courses; one in May 2020 and the second in...

UF Faculty Discuss Interdisciplinary Approach to Combating Climate Change
05/22/22

OHSA and the One Health Center hosted an interdisciplinary panel discussion to discuss combating climate change. The panelists were from ecology and environmental engineering to psychology and economics. The objective was to learn about the causes and impacts of climate change through the lens of a variety of fields. It was possible to discover potentially collaborative solutions for this urgent, global phenomenon in a pandemic-driven environment. The idea of a sustainable future may not be that clear but we are sure that all minds must be part of the solution. Taking a plastic fork home after the event was to demonstrate how convenient changes to lifestyles may be. The change we seek...

Gator Citrus Club in Spain
04/18/22

In March, the Gator Citrus Club, a student organization at the Horticultural Sciences Department (HOS), visited the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) as well as research institutes, and agribusinesses in the area of Valencia, Spain. Faculty and students from the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) participated in this international academic trip. Dr. Davie Kadyampakeni (Soil and Water Department) gave a seminar and Ph.D. student Neus Alcon (HOS...

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