Wally Rhines

Always a Gator: ‘Visionary leader’ Wally Rhines has deep UF roots 

June 6, 2025

You can take the Gator out of Gainesville, but you can’t take Gainesville out of the Gator.  Or so it goes with Wally Rhines, a wildly successful businessman, engineer and philanthropist.

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Saluting Our Trailblazers 2024-2025 

June 6, 2025

Interdisciplinary faculty members at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering continue to garner prestigious recognition for their contributions to science and engineering.

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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE FUTURE OF STEGANOGRAPHY 

June 3, 2025

Steganography, the art of concealing secret messages within other pieces of text or media, has been in practice for centuries. Its history dates to Ancient Greece, but the first recorded use of the term was in 1499 in a book disguised as a book about magic titled Steganographia. Even today, this method remains relevant, with people […]

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Gator100

Gator engineers honored in 2025 Gator100

May 1, 2025

Join us in congratulating the outstanding alumni from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering for earning their place among the 2025 Gator100 — the world’s fastest-growing Gator-led businesses.

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The essence of a Gator engineer: WGI co-founder named UF Distinguished Alumnus 

April 30, 2025

David Wantman, co-founder of a successful South Florida-based consulting, planning, surveying and design firm and 1990 UF engineering graduate, has been selected as a Distinguished Alumnus from the University of Florida.

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A New Era of Nuclear? The Potential of Gas Core Reactors 

April 12, 2025

As the demand for clean, high-efficiency energy grows, a research team led by Justin Watson, Ph.D., and Chris McDevitt, Ph.D., associate professors of nuclear engineering at the University of Florida, is exploring gas core nuclear reactors (GCRs). This next-generation reactor design could offer a safer and more efficient way to generate atomic power by replacing […]

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40 Gators Under 40

Engineering alumni honored in 2025 “40 Gators Under 40” awards

March 24, 2025

Four exceptional Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumni have been honored with the University of Florida’s “40 Gators Under 40” awards.

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Antar Jutla, Ph.D.

UF professor’s disease-prediction dashboard looks toward troubled Gulf waters

March 17, 2025

After deploying life-saving cholera-prediction systems in Africa and Asia, a University of Florida researcher is turning his attention to the pathogen-plagued waters off Florida’s Gulf Coast.

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Superstar UF iGEM Team Wins Gold in Paris with Biomanufactured Organoid Models

February 3, 2025

The UF Chapter of iGEM dazzled 2024 Grand Jamboree judges, earning a gold medal for their research into sepsis, a life-threatening condition that results from the body’s dysregulated response to infection.

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UF’s first art and mechanical engineering major combines creativity with STEM skills

January 30, 2025

Captivated by cubism, color, construction, and deconstruction, Rokheyatou “Roxie” Faye is the first Gator to double major in art and mechanical engineering at the University of Florida. 

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