Staff from UFIC and the Career Connections Center co-present at the Career Integration conference in DC to discuss the impact of e-portfolios in internships abroad.
Presenters: Andie Cochran (UF CCC), Paloma Rodriguez (UFIC) and Ann Hubbard (AIFS). Also part of the UF cohort attending this conference with the sponsorship of the Learning Without Borders initiatives: Melissa Johnson (Honors), Julia Fleming (CCC), Sarah Eberhart (HHP), and Nicholas Mrozinkske (CLAS).
The Center for Global Islamic Studies wanst to welcome Dr. Benedikt Pontzen. Dr Pontzen, an anthropologist, who has conducted extensive research on Islam and African "traditional" religion in Ghana, as well as earlier research in Mali, is joining the Center for Global Islamic Studies, the Department of Religion, and the Center for African Studies as a Postdoctoral Associate in the project, "Islam in Africa in Global Context," funded through the ...
Photo Credit: Ruoya Yu
The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) invites students, faculty, staff and alumni to enter its annual international photography contest. There are three categories this year. Each entrant may submit up to two digital photos in only one chosen category. All photographs must portray the theme "Global Culture" and not display your use of alcohol, cigarettes, drugs or any inappropriate content or behavior. Unedited photos preferred, but minimally edited photos will be accepted. Showing your Global Gator spirit and wearing UF colors/...
Congratulations to Dr. Tanya Saunders (Latin American Studies) and Dr. Manoucheka Celeste (African American Studies), for receiving the Intersections: Research-into-Teaching Grant for their project, “How does Blackness travel locally and across the globe?” The grant, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is awarded by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
“Intersections Groups demonstrate the urgency for scholars to mobilize interdisciplinary collaboration with the humanities in order to respond to grand challenges,” says Prof. Barbara Mennel, Interim Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. “Importantly, the Intersections Groups will...
In an effort to enhance the quality, diversity, and scope of institutional professional development in the areas of global learning, study abroad, career development, and marketing, the Learning Without Borders initiative sponsored communicators Mabel Cardec and Maria Ramirez to attend the Council for Advancement and Support of Education conference (CASE) in New Orleans. The CASE conference explored new advances in multimedia and offered insights into working with audio, photography and video for website and social media.
Additionally, Amila Tica and Caroline Cully attended the Global Internship Conference (GIC) in Detroit, a forum dedicated to advancing the knowledge of academic...
When Liselotte de Wit was in high school in the Netherlands, she worked at a facility for patients who had severe dementia. Her time taking care of these patients had a profound effect on her education and career goals.
“Witnessing the patients and their family members sparked an urge to lessen their mental suffering at a very young age,” she said. “Ever since, my goal was to get the best education to understand the mechanisms causing this burden and help develop and improve treatments.”
Inspired to pursue a career in neuropsychology, de Wit was drawn to the scientist-practitioner model at UF’s department of clinical and health psychology. As a student in the department’s...
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The Harn Museum of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lee Anne Hurt Chesterfield as their new director. Chesterfield will provide the leadership, vision, and long-range strategic planning for the Museum’s financial stability, programmatic excellence, inclusiveness and equity, and continued growth and success. Dr. Chesterfield comes to UF from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she served as the principle advisor to the Director and oversaw all aspects of the museum’s strategic plan and board relations. Dr. Chesterfield earned her Ph.D. and Masters in Art History, specializing in Pre-Columbian Art, from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Bachelor of Business...
UFIC hosted a group of high school students and teachers visiting from Unidad Educativa Nacional (UEN) in Galápagos Ecuador.
This group of potential Global Gators are also connected to UEN, which is one of UF’s partner institutions in Ecuador. The visitors will be engaging in activities with UF Latin American Studies and Eastside High School, their sister school.
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Natural and agricultural disasters can lead to massive human migrations, and a University of Florida scientist will lead a group that will improve our ability to predict the patterns of those movements.
Rachata Muneepeerakul, an associate professor in agricultural and biological engineering for the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, has received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study human movement patterns. UF’s portion of the grant is about...
