2009-2010
10-22-09
College Celebrates Diversity Around the World
10-19-09
Anthony Kong, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, was interviewed about his research on Cantonese speakers on the BBC's international health show "Health Check." Click here to listen to the interview.
10-10 to 10-18-09
Dean Michael Frumkin (below, center) and Associate Professor Mike Reynolds (left) traveled to Russia to meet with representatives from four universities to discuss the development and expansion of education, research, and student and faculty exchange programs.
6-28-09
Academic program development: The college is working with the University of Georgia in Tbilisi to help Georgia, a Eurasian country, develop health management education programs. In June 2009, two faculty members from the university visited UCF and other sites in Central Florida. Click here for a summary of their visit, coordinated by Dr. Bernardo Ramirez (far left in photo below), assistant professor of health management and informatics.
2008-2009
6-4-09
Bahadir Sahin, a third-year doctoral student in public affairs, has received a national PERISHIP Award. This competitive dissertation award of $10,000 will enable Sahin to conduct field studies on crisis management in Spain, England, Turkey and the United States. His dissertation title is "Factors Influencing Effectiveness of Interorganizational Networks Among Crisis Management Organizations: A Comparative Perspective."
Read the International Activities Report for Spring 2009
Jackie Zhang, assistant professor of public affairs; Lynn Unruh, associate professor of health services administration; and Tom Wan, director of public affairs and associate dean for research, have been awarded a three-year grant, "Building Long-Term Care Research Capacity in China," by the NIH-Fogarty International Center. The researchers will collaborate with colleagues at Shangdon University in Ji-Nan, China, to establish a center for conducting needs assessment and health-services research on aging. Zhang and Wan will travel to Ji-Nan in May 2009.
A summer study abroad program in Russia is planned for June 29 to July 13, 2009.
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2007-2008
Read the International Activities Report for 2008
Read about Erica Busard's experience as a study abroad student in Russia on pp. 2-3 of the spring 2008 issue of INTER-NEWS, the newsletter of the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of
Criminology.
In this same issue, on pp. 7-10, read about Associate Professor
K. Michael Reynolds' experience as a Fulbright scholar at Russia's Volgograd Law Academy in the fall of 2007.
Martine Vanryckeghem, professor of communication sciences and disorders, recently completed a sabbatical at the University of Gent in Belgium. Her projects there included work with colleagues from the university's medical school on an international and interdiscipli-nary grant proposal — "the effect of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the premotor cortex on the speech of normally fluent adults" — that they submitted in October to the U.S. National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
K. Michael Reynolds, associate professor of criminal justice,
recently completed a sabbatical as
a Fulbright Scholar at the Volgograd Law Academy in Volgograd, Russia. He helped develop a crime analysis curriculum using cutting-edge technologies and conducting research with academy faculty members on democratization, policing and crime analysis in
the Volgograd region.
