Billy Napier apareció por la entrada lateral del Heavener Football Training Center. Un bolso deportivo negro colgaba de su hombro derecho. Con la cabeza inclinada, los ojos fijos en el pavimento, se detuvo un instante para abrazar a un miembro del personal y murmuró: “Si alguna vez necesitas algo, avísame”.
At 21, Nicolas Schull has helped manage $1.5 million in UF’s investment assets.
The first time Vivian Rincón Dib realized she could use engineering to help others, it was in a UF Engineering Design and Society course.
Adriano Zunino noticed a gap in UF’s tailgating scene: Latino students. Zunino, 25, and his childhood friends, Mateo Matos-Perales and Luis Felipe Pacheco, saw with entrepreneurial eyes an opportunity to build something new.
Vanessa Yanes is leading the publication that once turned her down.
After growing up in Paris, Belgium and Costa Rica, Valentina Larco finds it difficult to give a simple answer when asked where she’s from.
For Stephanie Manrique, every blueprint and project doubles as a design for a more inclusive future in engineering.
At only 22, Sofia Grande has owned three businesses — not all successes, but each special.
When Sebastian Sobrino-Gonzalez moved with his family from Puerto Rico to Miami at age 11, he didn’t yet know how one tabling event would shape his life.
Rafaella Arnaez spent most of her life dreaming about the spotlight. Today, she is chasing a different dream — creating stories from behind the camera.
In a campus with over 50,000 students, finding community can feel overwhelming. But not for Nicolas Cavalcanti.
Malena González Fernández’s impact in sustainability and STEM outreach stretches coast to coast.
Macarena Gonzalez-Cabanellas merges logical systems with human-centered work by using economic consulting to financially build up businesses and communities.
Lucas Romero-Wyhnanskyj’s computer science career has already taken him across two continents, from the Western Cape of South Africa to the sterile classrooms of UF’s campus.
When Carlos Olmedo talks about his future, he doesn’t just picture a career in science. He envisions a life dedicated to humanity.
For Angela Anzalone, every experience is something worth giving back. That mantra led the 20-year-old to create GiftBack, a nonprofit that collects and converts unused or partially used gift cards into cash donations for local charities.
Dylan Dueñas always loved working on teams. Now, he’s coaching one.
Born in Venezuela and raised in Florida after her family immigrated over a decade ago, Andrea Jiménez has always known she wanted to be part of the health care world. But she also knew she wanted to do it differently.
For most UF students, an indoor cycling session is just an hour-long sweat and a break from the stresses of school. For Venezuelan-born Camila Almandoz, it’s much more — a way to share her Hispanic culture.
Adriana Peña is clear on one thing: the value of community service.
Solutions by The State News
