Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Author: Patricia Delamonica Sampaio
Help support your TCD Program by donating today on UF Giving Day February 20, 2025
TCD is calling on its diverse community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, students, partners and friends to consider making a gift to “add value” to the lives of TCD’s amazing graduate students! Every 2-bits help TCD provide opportunities for graduate students to get to the field, work with partners and alums, embed themselves in local communities,
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Amazonian Dialogues – a new remote speaker series starts on 1/22/25 on the topic of gender and youth integration, community forestry and Indigenous territorial governance in Bolivia.
Dear TCD Community, We’re thrilled to invite you to “Amazonian Dialogues,” a new remote speaker series that’s part of TCD’s exciting new project on Amazonian Conservation. This semester, we’re hosting engaging presentations by invited speakers every other Wednesday, and these sessions are open to the entire TCD community. Our first session kicks off this Wednesday,
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Message to TCD Students!
Dear TCD Students: We hope that you are winding up this Spring 2025 semester and advancing towards your graduate career goals. We want to thank you for being part of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) graduate certificate / concentration community and check-in to see if you have any questions or concerns about meeting requirements.
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Vanessa Luna Celino is the 2024 Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award recipient!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Vanesa Luna Celino is the 2024 winner of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Dr. Luna completed her dissertation in Interdisciplinary Ecology in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment in May 2024 under the supervision of Dr. Karen Kainer
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TCDsg 2024 Bingo fundraising is this Saturday!
fundraising The BINGO is one of the TCD student group fundraising events that happens every year to support TCD students’ small grants or other initiatives. Please Join us this Saturday, December 7 to be part of this traditional and unforgettable evening of excitement, camaraderie, and the thrill of the win at Bingo Games! More info
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UF SACNAS receives Outstanding Chapter Award for Innovative Science
The SACNAS (Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) chapter at the University of Florida received the Outstanding Chapter Award for Innovative Science. Claudia Garnica (PhD Biology and TCD) received the award and shared with the audience that “This recognition celebrates a belief we hold dear: that science is not just for a few but
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