Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Author: Patricia Delamonica Sampaio
TCD Student Group Trivia Night!
Join the TCD Student Group for a Tropical Trivia night! Reconnect with the TCD community while having some fun. Thursday, March 5th @ 7 – 8:30 pmA Zoom link and password will be sent to those registered prior to the event Register HERE
TCD Core Faculty Joel Correia receives UF International Award
Joel Correia received the University of Florida International Educator of the Year Award that recognizes extraordinary contributions in international education especially taking into consideration the impact on student learning and engagement with international issues, and the impact on international partners and the UF community as a whole. Joel’s research and teaching focuses on the intersection
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Andrea Baudoin (SNRE/TCD) is the 2020 M. Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award Recipient!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. C. Andrea Baudoin Farah is the 2020 winner of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Dr. Baudoin received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology in 2019 from the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) program under the supervision of Dr. Stephen
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TCD Innovation Award deadline November 16, 2020
For application info, please visit the TCD Innovation Award page The Schmink Innovation Award seeks to ensure the long-term impact of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program around the world by catalyzing new ideas and innovative approaches and by enabling shared learning throughout the tropics. This new TCD award is funded by an endowment
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TCD-SFRC’s Ana Violato Espada leads a community exchange in Brazil’s extractive reserves
Ana Violato Espada, a doctoral researcher at the University of Florida, organized a community exchange among users of six Brazilian Amazon extractive reserves to emphasize collective inquiry, experimentation grounded in experience, and the wealth of social learning related to community timber management. The community exchange was part of Ana’s fieldwork (May 2018 to September 2019)
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Congratulations to “Outstanding Colombian Abroad” Diana Alvira (SNRE & TCD Alumna)
UF SNRE and TCD alumna Diana (Tita) Alvira was selected by the Consulate of Colombia in Chicago as an outstanding Colombian working abroad in a ceremony on October 10th.This date coincides with the “National Day of the Colombian Migrant”, which was established in 1999 to recognize the courage and work of Colombians working outside of
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