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As artificial intelligence becomes woven into everyday life, UF researchers are working to make sure the technology learns safely.

University of Florida Associate Professor and researcher Nina Stark was named the new director of the Center of Coastal Solutions — known as CCS — within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.  

Last week’s Quantum Day Symposium at the University of Florida showcased dozens of student and postdoc quantum projects that covered a wide spectrum of innovative quantum projects from UF labs and collaborations. 

Though the 2025 hurricane season was relatively quiet for the United States, researchers are combining massive amounts of observational data with wildly complex computer models to predict the impact of future storms on coastal communities.   The University of Florida’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, or ESSIE, is part of a project that recently […]

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The National Academy of Inventors welcomed three new Gators as NAI Fellows this month: Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Ph.D., Chris Malachowsky, M.S. and Mark Sheplak, Ph.D. These University of Florida engineering inventors are part of a larger cohort of 185 exceptional inventors — 169 from the United States and 16 international Fellows. Read full story on […]

The Warren B. Nelms Third Annual IoT Conference gathered hundreds of scientists, faculty, students and industry leaders with the theme Intelligent Edge Computing: Emerging Frontiers in Technology and Applications. 

University of Florida postdoctoral researcher Ziqin Ding, Ph.D., and his team are working on a project to protect cell towers and other tall objects from lightning strikes. Using a novel combination of antennas, sensors, and algorithms, Ding’s system is able to detect if a particular lightning strike has impacted a given structure or not. 

Standing 14 feet tall and serving no obvious purpose, the steel sculpture located outside Weil Hall is a jumble of beams, bolts, welds and supports fastened into a concrete pad. Part of the revitalized Engineering Plaza — also home to the revamped Engineering Clock Tower — at the corner of Gale Lemerand and Stadium Road, the nondescript-looking structure was recently sandblasted and repainted (orange and blue, naturally).

The University of Florida SaferPlaces Lab, which is developing crime-prevention tools for Gainesville communities, won the Win Phillips Town Gown Relations Award on Friday.