b"Office for Global Research EngagementSupporting Faculty to Build Knowledge GloballyT he University of Florida'swithout international collaborative global presence is far reaching.efforts. Faculty are engaged in 673The American Academy of Arts active and under review IRB studiesand Sciences report (2020) (America in 196 countries. The universityand the International Future of has developed formal partnershipsScience) confirms the importance of with institutions in 82 countries.international collaborative efforts in Research at UF has made a substantialcontributing to the growth of science, contribution to the wider globalknowledge, and innovation. The community. OGRE is proud to supportreport determines that successfully and advocate on behalf of faculty toadvancing complex research requires meet the goals of UFs internationala diversity of research capabilities, mission.perspectives, and access to resources.In spite of the challenges presented by the pandemic, OGRE continuesCONGRATULATIONS TO UFS to advocate, serve and support2021 GLOBAL FELLOWSinternational research at UF. SinceAs part of our continued investment 1991, we have worked with faculty toin international research, this past facilitate connections with researchyear, we have completed our sixth networks on-campus and abroad, toGlobal Fellows program. Althoughassist with identifying sponsoredtravel during the year was restricted research opportunities, and to helpand we had to conduct the program U.S. science publications involving internationalnavigate the UF administrative andvirtually, the 12 Global Fellows were compliance processes for conductingamong the most diverse set of research collaborators rankresearch abroad.disciplines since the beginning of considerably higher thanthe program in 2016. This years all other U.S. scienceWHY INVEST INfaculty cohort represented fields, publications in field- INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH? such as the fine arts, humanities, weighted citation impactWorking with researchers in othersocial economics, criminal justice, countries adds value to UF's facultyrobotics, animal science, chemical (FWCI) analyses, in someengineering, statistics, and medicine. cases nearly doublingresearch by integrating a greaterTheir research embraces international diversity in scientific knowledge and ideas. Data support that researcherspartnerships with faculty and the average FWCI of publications with onlywho collaborate internationallyinstitutions around the world on topics that are only a sample of the collaborators from theare cited more frequently and arepublished in higher impact journals.wide array of international research same country. activities at UF. This included: a focus Furthermore, international researchAmerica and thecollaboration fosters greateron global migration; the exploration of International Future global innovation, creativity, andcultural traditions through live art; a of Science competitiveness. And, as we learnedglobal perspective on the phenomena from this global pandemic, the mostof the rise of police terror; a historical challenging scientific problems doperspective on the Soviet forced labor not recognize political boundaries ormovement; collaborative efforts with borders and often cannot be solvedfaculty in East Asia to develop models Celebrating 30 Years!| GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT REPORT 2021|13"