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Amanda Krause, Ph.D.

NSF Award Helps UF Engineer Bring Cutting Edge 3D X-Ray Microscope System to UF

December 1, 2020

Amanda Krause, Ph.D., MSE, is employing artificial intelligence methods to track and catalogue data for her abnormal grain growth research, and thanks to new a $1.2 million research award from the NSF, she will bring a cutting-edge, 3D X-ray microscope system to campus to generate even better data for her algorithms.

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Ruogu Fang, Ph.D.

UF Researchers Are Looking Into The Eyes Of Patients To Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease

December 1, 2020

Ruogu Fang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Smart Medical Informatics Learning and Evaluation Lab, was quoted in a Forbes article about an AI-assisted method for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease with, essentially, an eye exam.

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Screen capture of video taken at the unveiling of Herbert Wertheim's portrait

Herbert Wertheim’s Portrait Unveiled at Five-Year Anniversary Celebration

November 20, 2020

Five years ago, Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim and the Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation gave a $50 million gift that catalyzed a $300 million public-private partnership, leveraging support from the state, the university and from private donors to bring about the biggest transformation in the history of our college.

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Graphic of proposed paper-strip COVID-19 Test

Faster, Cheaper, Easier COVID-19 Testing

November 18, 2020

UF engineers reach semi-finals in XPRIZE Contest for new COVID-19 test methods; their CRISPR-ENHANCE methodology published in Nature Communications journal

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University of Florida Tackles COVID-19 With High-Tech Devices

November 6, 2020

Faculty and students at the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World went to work to invent wearable, smart, connected devices to fight COVID-19 and future viruses.

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Michelle Manuel

UF Engineer is Using $11M Research Award to Make Steel Manufacturing More Energy Efficient

November 3, 2020

Backed by a nearly $11 million award from the Department of Energy, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, Michele Manuel, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering, is leading an industry-national laboratory-university consortium in developing an Induction-coupled Thermomagnetic Processing (ITMP) method to help increase the efficiency of alloy manufacturing.

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Christina Boucher

UF engineer receives NSF grant to enable real-time surveillance of antimicrobial resistance

November 2, 2020

Christina Boucher, Ph.D., associate professor in the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will give Dr. Boucher and her team the opportunity to develop a set of algorithms and an electronic interface that will allow public health investigators to test and analyze biological samples for antibiotic resistance in rural areas.

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Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D.

Tehranipoor Honored at Virtual Standing InnOvation Event (UF Innovate)

September 25, 2020

Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D., Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and director of FICS, leads a team of hardware and software engineers who have developed a superior reputation for securing electronics for government and industry. Dr. Tehranipoor received recognition at the virtual Standing InnOvation Awards for […]

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John Lednicky, Ph.D., and Chang-Yu Wu, Ph.D.

UF Researchers Find Viable Viruses in Aerosols that Cause COVID-19

September 23, 2020

New research from the University of Florida provides strong evidence that aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be possible.

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Edwin Marcial

Driven to Success

September 1, 2020

Edwin Marcial (BS, ECE ’92) captures drives and tech talks for his Techrides website. He has interviewed Dean Cammy Abernathy as well as leaders from Delta, Virgin Galactic, and Intercontinental Exchange, among other Fortune 500s, about what makes their companies successful.

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