Category: News

UF Concrete Canoe team off to Utah for nationals
June 21, 2024The team of 12 students will compete this month in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Engineering Championships at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
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UF teaching veterans how to hack
June 14, 2024Led by the Warren B. Nelms Institute, a three-year, $1M University of Florida project is teaching veterans how to hack into computer systems in order to prepare them for cybersecurity work.
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2023-2024 awards for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
June 13, 2024The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering presented its annual awards to faculty, staff, and students for the 2022-2023 academic year on April 22, 2024. These awards celebrate the excellence and fundamental values of our college.
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Steel Bridge completes historic four-peat at Nationals
June 12, 2024The University of Florida’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge team has made history. For the fourth year in a row, the team has won at the American Institute of Steel Construction’s 2024 Student Steel Bridge Competition National Finals. No other team has won national championships for three consecutive years, let alone four. The UF team claimed its […]
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Don’t squash those pantry pests…they may help save your life one day
May 31, 2024When Dr. Whitney Stoppel isn’t working as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, she loves spending her free time outdoors and tending to her garden. During these moments, she reflects on the intriguing connections between healthcare, medicine, and the natural world, particularly plants and insects. As a result, she has studied the […]
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Eight UF engineering faculty honored with prestigious NSF CAREER Awards
May 29, 2024The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering proudly announces that eight of our faculty members have been honored with the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Awards.
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Sounding the alarm: UF cybersecurity expert exposes audio deepfake
May 21, 2024Audio deepfakes are becoming ubiquitous – blurring the line between fact and fiction – but UF researchers are working to develop methods to help the public navigate this new technological terrain.
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UF partners with National Security Agency to enhance STEM education
May 20, 2024The University of Florida has entered into an Education Partnership Agreement with the National Security Agency in efforts to enhance STEM education through technical exchanges and the sharing of educational materials and equipment.
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Dynamic Doppelganger: Developing Florida’s Digital Twin
May 17, 2024Imagine a virtual Jacksonville, viewable through an augmented reality headset, that shows the intricate aspects of the city in 3D. This is the future of sustainable urban planning, and the University of Florida is leading a project that will leverage artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies to make it happen.
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UF engineering students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
May 17, 2024Ten students from the University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering were selected to receive awards from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for their exemplary work and contributions to their departments. The NSF GRFP recognizes outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) […]
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