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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida researcher’s desire to provide citizens with disabilities the same opportunity to vote as everyone else could serve as the catalyst for revolutionizing voter access nationwide. Juan Gilbert’s Prime III, an electronic voting machine a decade in the making, has debuted in primary elections in several states. Officials in New Hampshire were […]

Aysegul Gunduz, director of UF’s Brain Mapping Laboratory, was highlighted on CNN’s monthly health program Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The show featured the collaborative work that is going on in the UF Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration. Gunduz is an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. […]

Gator Engineering professor Cheri Stabler, an expert in diabetes research, will play an integral role in the new UF Diabetes Institute. Stabler, a professor at the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, together with her team, recently won a $4.9 million NIH grant to engineer a microchip that will serve to house islets […]

Gator Engineering, together with the rest of the University of Florida, is very proud to announce the appointment of Dr. W. Kent Fuchs as president-elect of the university.

Gator Engineering, together with the rest of the University of Florida, is very proud to announce the appointment of Dr. W. Kent Fuchs as president-elect of the university. Dr. Fuchs comes to us from Cornell University where he served as provost and Chief Operating Officer. His engineering career includes service as the Joseph Silbert Dean […]

The last time they watched at football game at the University of Florida, the Gators had never played the Seminoles, J. Wayne Reitz was the president, and the only television set they knew of was in the laundry room at the Florida Veterans Village (also known as Flavet). And just like this year’s Gator Growl, […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center will  play a leading role in researching the next generation of “smart” electronics funded by a National Science Foundation  program that combines federal money with industry investments in strategic research. As a designated Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, the MIST Center will receive over $880,000 […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Engineering’s future Innovation Nexus Building will add to its list of distinguished underwriters Subroto and Susmita Bagchi, who have announced a $1 million gift to UF. Their gift will be used to support the Engineering Innovation Nexus Building, a new facility to be located at the […]

Engineering students, faculty and staff are mourning the loss of one of our newest graduate students. Krishnendu “Krish” Saha came to UF from India this fall to study electrical and computer engineering. His accidental death last Saturday at his apartment complex leaves us with a great sense of loss – he was just starting out […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ask anyone who has a surgical pin in their body, and they likely will tell you they wish it would just go away. In the future, it just might, with help from research by Michele Manuel, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Florida. Manuel has developed […]