Expanding Horizons: UF/IFAS hosted seven Borlaug Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Scholars Ghana, T he UF/IFAS Inter- Nigeria, I Senegal national Programs office brought seven women scientists from Africa to study at UF under the Borlaug Scholars program. These outstanding women represented Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Burkina Faso. Each scientist was paired with a mentor on the UF/IFAS faculty, with a wide variety of disciplines represented amongst the group. The scholars were given an overview of the UF/IFAS structure as a landgrant institution and met with faculty from UF/IFAS departments and research and education centers, from UF's Center for African Studies, and attended a luncheon with women administrators, organized by the Gender, Environment, Agriculture and Participation (GEAP) Program. They also participated in a Gender Analysis Seminar led by gender analysis experts as a precursor to their final project, a Gender Analysis Seminar before an audience in the UF/IFAS Communication Services distance education classroom. The scholars attended classes at UF, including a resource management in African agriculture course, and attended seminars in Tallahassee at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). The Borlaug Scholars program will allow the visiting scientists to form long-term cooperative research and extension programs with UF/IFAS, including 2006 mentor visits to the nation of the scientist they mentored, enriching the societies each institution serves. IP director Roger Natzke said, "The Borlaug management team visited Borlaug Scholars, Mentors, and International Programs Director Roger Natzke at farewell reception. See website for full article! http://international.ifas.ufl.edu Gainesville to observe the program in action. After a very productive dialogue I am confident that IFAS is in an excellent position to host Fellows from other countries in addition to West Africa in subsequent years." The Borlaug Fellows program is high IP's priority list because it provides opportunity for UF/IFAS faculty members to gain international exposure and foster ongoing international collaboration. -: Contact: Roger Natzke, natzke@ufl.edu Bor!aug Scholars and Mentors: Scholar Flora Nelson-Quartey, Ghana Mentor Jeffrey Brecht, UF/IFAS horticultural sciences Scholar Mourfat Balogun, Nigeria Mentor Eric Simonne, UF/IFAS horticultural sciences Scholar Nome Sakane, Burkina Faso Mentor Sabine Grunwald, UF/ IFAS soil and water science Scholar Patience Asem, Ghana Mentor Lisa Guion, UF/IFAS family, youth and community sciences Scholar Regina Ntumngia, Cameroon Mentor Marta Hartmann, UF/ IFAS agricultural education and communications Scholar Adeola Adenugba, Nigeria Mentor Roger Natzke, director, UF/IFAS international programs Scholar Fatou Diop, Senegal Mentor Jane Polston, UF/IFAS plant pathology 'Conservation Workshop in Colombia M/ arta Hartmann, Clmi J Head of the UF/IFAS Gender, Environment, Agriculture and Participation (GEAP) Program, Elena Bastidas, Visiting Research Professor at the UF Center for Latin American Studies, and Omaira Bolafios, PhD student in Anthropology facilitated a workshop in Cali, Colombia organized by~ the project Training and capacity bwdmg in community -based conserv'a tion for institutions working in protected areas of Ecuador and Colombhia Thzis project is funded by the MacArthur Foundation and executed by the TCD Program at UF's Center for Latin-Americans Studies, which is now collaborating with IFAS faculty through International Programs. Hartman and Bastidas also spent half a day at Centro Intemnacional de Agricutura T ropical (CIAT)Ibefore attending the workshop. ** Contact: Elena Bastidas, bastidas@fuse.net Do you have an international story to share? Contact the editor at leevans@ifas.ufl.edu to let us know your international activities! 2 Focus ..