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Members of the UF Concrete Canoe team test the canoe at Lake Wauburg.

UF Concrete Canoe team off to Utah for nationals 

June 21, 2024

The 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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A participant in the VETS-HASTE program to teach veterans cybersecurity skills works on a laptop.

UF teaching veterans how to hack

June 14, 2024

Led 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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Awards for the 2023-2024 faculty and staff awards ceremony.

2023-2024 awards for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

June 13, 2024

The 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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The University of Florida’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge named the 2024 Student Steel Bridge winners.

Steel Bridge completes historic four-peat at Nationals

June 12, 2024

The 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, 2024

When 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, 2024

The 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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Patrick Traynor, Ph.D.

Sounding the alarm: UF cybersecurity expert exposes audio deepfake

May 21, 2024

Audio 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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A woman works on a tablet before several screens showing national security data.

UF partners with National Security Agency to enhance STEM education

May 20, 2024

The 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

Dynamic Doppelganger: Developing Florida’s Digital Twin

May 17, 2024

Imagine 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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Century Tower

UF engineering students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

May 17, 2024

Ten 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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