UF promotes humanities with residency program for Latin American artists, writers
When Mexican multimedia artist Eduardo Abaroa arrives on campus for the first time Aug. 2, the first thing he’s doing is paperwork. Lots of it.
A Latin American artist/writer residency program at UF will pay for his housing, his salary for a semester, his living expenses and his plane ticket to fly him from Mexico to the U.S.
“The whole month is dedicated to me getting a bank account and settling down and setting everything up,” Abaroa said.
Children’s book project captures untold Hispanic immigration stories
Instead of reading about Jack and Annie’s travels to distant lands in a magic treehouse, children might soon be reading about Jose’s journey from the mountains of Mexico to a Texas ranch or Ericka’s move from the Peruvian coast to the cold winds of Ohio.
Making space for heritage with UF’s Hispanic Latinx Student Assembly
As a Colombian-Lebanese American, Annabella Calderon’s heritage was a big part of her identity and finding a community reflecting that was hard to find at first. But when she attended the Hispanic-Latinx Student Assembly (HLSA) event during the fall of her freshman year, she found a community that became her family.
UF first-generation students share their success, struggles
Most students coming to college for the first time worry about being on their own, making new friends or finding their classes on campus. First-generation students have the added stress of navigating college without family members with prior experience to lean on for advice.
At UF, this is around a fifth of the university population, according to a 2021 UF Career Connections Center.
In the sunlit halls of UF, Catherine Valdes strides with an earned confidence.
UF’s Meet the Author Club de Lectura plans six new author visits, workshops and contests
On its face, the genres of science fiction, animal rights, Afrofuturism and environmentalism may not have much in common, but Luis Felipe Gomez Lomelí seeks to bring them all together under the umbrella of Latin American literature.
