Month: June 2025
Student Spotlight: Renan Favero Says It’s Not All About the Degree; It’s about Making a Difference
June 9, 2025By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Who would have thought that a microsimulation class would have made such an impact on Renan Favero that he would go on to pursue a career in transportation engineering? It was 2013, and Favero, then an undergraduate student in civil engineering, was attending the Politecnico di Torino, […]
Read more »UFTI Affiliate Reaches Mount Everest Base Camp – a Lesson in Leadership
June 9, 2025By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator Sherrilene Classen, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UF Department of Occupational Therapy, is an affiliate of the UFTI who, on May 29, 2025, accomplished the amazing achievement of reaching Mount Everest’s Base Camp at 17,600 feet in the Himalayas. Coincidentally, May 29 was also the day when […]
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