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Joseph Hill, left, president of the Tau Beta Pi Florida Alpha chapter, poses with the chapter’s award with Josuan Hilerio Sanchez, Tau Beta Pi director for district 5. Photo submitted by Tau Beta Pi

UF Tau Beta Pi chapter wins top national honor. Again

November 18, 2025

The 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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A genetic sequencer from Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Security flaws in portable genetic sequencers risk leaking private DNA data

November 12, 2025

Researchers from the University of Florida have, for the first time, exposed security risks in portable genetic sequencers used around the world to sequence DNA.

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Weil Hall on UF campus

Gator Engineering faculty take home four inventions of year from UF Innovate 

November 10, 2025

Innovation 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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UF's Century Tower with a foreground of trees and fuchsia azaleas in bloom.

Prestigious academy names three Rising Stars from UF engineering

November 7, 2025

The 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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Ivanna Milian

For first-generation UF student Ivanna Milian, ‘the only option is to succeed’

October 31, 2025

Ivanna Milian’s family nurtured her path as a first-generation college student from her first days in elementary school.

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Tommy E. Angelini, Ph.D.

From cells to solid state to public health, UF team building biosensors

October 31, 2025

Backed by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a University of Florida research team is combining living cells with solid-state materials to develop better tools for environmental monitoring. 

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UF Professor Kiley Graim, left, accepts the AI Research Excellence Early Career Award Wednesday from Alina Zare, director of the Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Research Institute.

AI Research Excellence Early Career Award: Meet Kiley Graim 

October 30, 2025

Kiley 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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The researchers in Zhang’s lab in the New Physics Building at University of Florida. Left to Right: Xiao-Xiao Zhang (the lead PI of the study), Yunong Wang, Enamul Yousuf and Philip Feng.

UF led team of scientists and engineers reveal hidden rhythms of magnetism using vibrating nano drums

October 29, 2025

Scientists are using vibrating nanoscale drumheads to study how magnetism moves and changes inside special materials — a discovery that could help power the next generation of fast, energy-efficient computers. 

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UFTR Director Donald Wall discusses UF’s nuclear reactor.  

Licensed to lead, UF students join elite ranks as nuclear reactor operators

October 22, 2025

Built in 1959 and operating out of the Nuclear Engineering program in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the UF training reactor is one of fewer than 30 reactors still operating in the United States. The college uses the reactor to train students in nuclear science and reactor operations, and in lab courses.

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A wildfire burns in a forested area.

Multi-university AI research may revolutionize wildfire evacuation

October 15, 2025

Armed with a nearly $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, UF, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Utah are creating these AI-based models to simulate human behavior during evacuations – information that will help emergency managers shape more effective evacuation plans. 

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