Category: Honors & Awards

For the second consecutive year, SHPE UF takes the gold
January 16, 2026UF’s chapter was one of four in the nation to receive the Gold Chapter Award, the highest honor for any SHPE chapter.
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Award-winning UF team targets nonconsensual nude photo apps to protect privacy
January 6, 2026Researchers from the University of Florida, Georgetown University and the University of Washington have earned the NYU Center for Cybersecurity Awareness Week’s Social Impact award for their study of AI-based nudification apps that generate nonconsensual nude images in seconds.
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University of Florida announces three 2025 National Academy of Inventors winners
December 16, 2025The National Academy of Inventors welcomed three new Gators as NAI Fellows this month: Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Ph.D., Chris Malachowsky, M.S. and Mark Sheplak, Ph.D. These University of Florida engineering inventors are part of a larger cohort of 185 exceptional inventors — 169 from the United States and 16 international Fellows. Read full story on […]
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UF crime-prevention lab wins prestigious Win Phillips award
December 9, 2025The University of Florida SaferPlaces Lab, which is developing crime-prevention tools for Gainesville communities, won the Win Phillips Town Gown Relations Award on Friday.
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UF engineers make strong showing at UF International Center awards
November 20, 2025Faculty members from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering took home some impressive hardware Monday during the University of Florida International Center’s 2025 Global Awards ceremony.
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UF Tau Beta Pi chapter wins top national honor. Again
November 18, 2025The Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, University of Florida’s engineering honor society, was awarded the 2025 R.C. Matthews Outstanding Chapter Award this month at the Tau Beta Pi national convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Gator Engineering faculty take home four inventions of year from UF Innovate
November 10, 2025Innovation was in the spotlight last week as UF Innovate | Tech Licensing celebrated the top six innovations of 2025 at its annual Standing InnOvation event. Four of the recognized technologies came from faculty researchers in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
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Prestigious academy names three Rising Stars from UF engineering
November 7, 2025The Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida has recognized three University of Florida assistant engineering professors as 2025 Rising Stars.
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AI Research Excellence Early Career Award: Meet Kiley Graim
October 30, 2025Kiley Graim, Ph.D., on Wednesday accepted the Artificial Intelligence Research Excellence Early Career Award, an honor recognizing her outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence research and her emerging leadership in advancing biomedical and computational discovery.
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AI-enabled Edugator tool wins 2025 Florida Government Productivity Award
September 18, 2025A team of innovators from the University of Florida has created an award-winning tool that’s transforming the way students learn to code and saving them money in the process.
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