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Turning movement into AI lessons for the next generation

September 24, 2026

What if elementary school students could learn how artificial intelligence works by moving, jumping and playing? A multidisciplinary team of University of Florida researchers is exploring that question through AI-PLAY, a new NSF-funded project that connects students’ own movements to foundational AI concepts.

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Wesley Bolch, Ph.D.

Bolch named inaugural Chang & Szalay Samaritan Biologics Endowed Professor

August 28, 2026

Thanks to a $1 million gift from Samaritan Biologics and its co-founders, Distinguished Professor Wesley E. Bolch, Ph.D., has been named the inaugural Chang & Szalay Samaritan Biologics Endowed Professor in Biomedical Engineering.

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Sensing the Future

June 11, 2026

UF Innovations Transform Health, Safety and AI Across the globe, smart sensors are driving a new era of health care, transportation, safety and intelligent automation. From autonomous vehicles navigating through smoke and darkness to wearable devices that monitor human movement and brain activity, sensors are rapidly transforming the way people interact with technology and the […]

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Seen from below, three students lean over a wheelchair and attach a zipper bag to the bottom of the seat.

From jar openers to key grippers, devices designed by UF students help people with disabilities

April 30, 2026

While access has improved for people with disabilities, small inconveniences still exist everywhere. To solve that — piece by piece — students from the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering are helping design 3D-printed assistive devices for locals with unique needs.

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A student in a lab working on a human head dummy to set up a system for recording brain waves during human walking

From athletes to everyday health: UF Engineers unveil bold vision for the future of human performance

March 24, 2026

The UF Center for Engineering Human Performance and Wellness brings together experts from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the College of Health and Human Performance to study how wearable sensors, robotics and advanced data analysis can be used to monitor, understand and optimize how people move, recover and live. 

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Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., left, and Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., by UF's magnetic particle imaging scanner.

New imaging method helps immune cells zero in on cancer

October 2, 2025

In a collaboration between UF’s biomedical engineering and neurosurgery departments, UF researchers are testing the potential of nanoparticle imaging to boost cancer immunity.

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A child receives a CT scan.

Do CT scans increase childhood cancer risk? A UF researcher has the answer

September 24, 2025

A recent study featuring research by University of Florida Engineering Professor Wesley Bolch, Ph.D., links exposure to radiation from medical imaging to a small-but-significant risk of blood cancers among children and adolescents. 

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This time, it’s personal. UF student devotes his life to researching type 1 diabetes

March 31, 2025

UF Ph.D. student Cameron Crouse is rolling his experiences, knowledge and insight as a type 1 diabetes patient into his graduate research, hoping to find a diabetes treatment at the cellular level through tissue engineering.

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UF researchers go nano to ease osteoarthritis

November 26, 2024

Equipped with a cutting-edge nanoparticle imaging technology, federal funds and a quest to quash pain, researchers at the University of Florida are working to revolutionize osteoarthritis treatments.

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Ivana Parker, Ph.D.

With an NIH Pioneer award, UF researcher targets common infection

November 7, 2024

Armed with a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, University of Florida biomedical professor Ivana Parker, Ph.D., is targeting one of the most common – and dangerous – infections in women.  

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