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Zulma Santiago receives Faculty Enhancement Opportunity award

Congratulations to Yary for receiving a Spring 2023 Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) Award.  Yary will receive $6,401 to study abroad at the Siena School for Liberal Arts in Siena, Italy. This two-week intensive (full emersion) program is designed to expose professionals to Italian Sign Language and Italian Deaf Culture.  Additional…

9/23/22 – Early Childhood Seminar Series – Kristen Lewandowski, M.A., CCC-SLP

Please join the Early Childhood Seminar Series with speaker Kristen Lewandowski, M.A., CCC-SLP, presenting “Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) in Early Childhood: The Role Early Childhood Providers Play in Implementation of AAC”. Friday, September 23, 3:00-4:00pm Join by ZOOM: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/98661877978?pwd=VDhXZmpBZWIwVExacVlNN1lEU0FHQT09 Meeting ID: 986 6187 7978, Passcode: 090266 Please see flier below for details.

Candice Adams-Mitchell receives NIH fellowship created to improve diversity among leaders in AI

The National Institute of Health and AIM-AHEAD (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity) Principal Investigators has selected Dr. Candice Adams-Mitchell for the Inaugural Cohort of the AIM-AHEAD Fellowship Program in Leadership. The goal of this unique Leadership Fellowship program is to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to champion…

Dr. Emily Plowman & Dr. Catriona Steele Awarded R01 by NIA

Dr. Emily Plowman and her collaborator at the Dr. Catriona Steele at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute were awarded a 4.2 Million dollar 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute’s of Aging for their proposal “Establishing Reference Values and Clinical Decision Making Points for Quantitative Videofluoroscopic Measures of Swallowing”. This represents…

Dr. Candice Adams-Mitchell designs new UF study abroad program in Zambia

Dr. Candice Adams-Mitchell completed the UF Study Abroad Leadership Program (SALP). 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 study abroad programs. As part of this program, she designed a course for students…