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OCTOBER 2024

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UNIVERSITY NEWS

President Biden appoints UF professor to National Science Board

Gilbert’s research projects include election security, usability, and accessibility, advanced learning technologies, human-centered artificial intelligence and machine learning, and ethnocomputing, or culturally relevant computing.  

Christine Schmidt elected to National Academy of Medicine

University of Florida Distinguished Professor has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. This prestigious honor follows her election earlier this year to the National Academy of Engineering, making her one of the few exceptional individuals to be recognized by both academies.

One of the first Machen Florida Opportunity Scholarship (MFOS) graduates looks back on the program’s generational impact, celebrates her daughter’s UF engineering journey

Khrysten Sears Spencer found out that she would be the valedictorian of Glades Central Community High School the day after she gave birth to Allannah. Now, Allannah started at UF in Summer 2024 in STEPUP (the Successful Transition and Enhanced Preparation for Undergraduates program) within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

HEADLINE NEWS

UF researcher helping make structures safer after Surfside disaster

Working with the Florida Building Commission, Jennifer Bridge, Ph.D. contributed to consistent statewide inspection forms and educates industry leaders, state officials, building departments, inspectors and even condo owners about the changes. The new Florida legislation tightens the window for inspections for condos and co-op buildings to 30 years after construction, then every 10 years statewide.

Hardcore UF hurricane researchers race against Helene to deploy storm-monitoring equipment along coast

On Sept. 25 — the day before Helene slammed into the Big Bend — about a dozen UF faculty members, staff and graduate students from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering arrived at Cedar Key’s beach to install a UF-developed storm-monitoring tower called a Sentinel. These 33-foot-tall devices collect data on wind, storm surge, waves, and water quality before, during and after a hurricane makes landfall.

COLLEGE NEWS

UF to break ground on new ag, engineering building

The University of Florida is slated to begin construction on a dynamic new learning space serving the department of agricultural and biological engineering (ABE). The W.W. Glenn Teaching Building will be erected adjacent to the existing ABE facilities, on Museum Drive across from the Katie Seashole Pressly softball stadium.

UF’s newest printer can build homes, sea walls and careers

One of the country’s largest and most-advanced 3D construction printers – as in a printer that makes homes – has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at the University of Florida.

STUDENT STORIES

UF Ph.D. students bring precision and perspective to AI athletics initiative

Mollie Brewer and Kevin Childs are UF Ph.D. students and athletes helping with the UF & Sport Collaborative, a presidential initiative that explores AI-powered athletics.

Powered by the Sun, Solar Gators Race from Nashville to Wyoming

Following their national championship in 2023, UF student racing team Solar Gators placed fourth in the 2024 Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and qualified, for the first time in their history, to compete in the Electrek American Solar Challenge (ASC), a 1500+ mile rally-style race from Nashville, TN to Casper, WY.
HONORS AND AWARDS

A new data biorepository at UF may help move the needle on pain

Professors Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, Ph.D., and Kyle Allen, Ph.D., work with Ph.D. student assistants Folly Patterson and Michael Strinden in their pain research with human tissue and AI datasets.
With $10 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, researchers from UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the College of Dentistry are storing post-surgical human tissue in a repository, collecting data points from the samples, and mapping and analyzing the tissue via artificial intelligence tools. The goal is to explore pain pathways and create custom pain treatments.

UF researchers using AI to improve surgical robotics

Engineering researchers at the University of Florida are playing a key role in advancing safety and precision in robot-assisted surgery, or RAS.

John Schueller Lands Prestigious Cyrus Hall McCormick – Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal

Professor John Schueller of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has been honored with the prestigious Cyrus Hall McCormick – Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. This esteemed award is presented annually to recognize exceptional and meritorious engineering achievements that have significantly advanced agriculture.

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