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Championships keep rolling in for University of Florida ASCE chapters, as student teams won first place overall earlier this month at the ASCE Southeast Student Symposium in Athens, Ga. “UF took first out of 19 universities,” noted ASCE student chapter advisor Mark Newman, Ph.D. “Our students also made more history as the first university in […]

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.

University of Florida researchers are addressing a critical gap in medical genetic research — ensuring it better represents and benefits people of all backgrounds. 

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., an associate professor, popular mentor and groundbreaking researcher at the University of Florida, has been named the new chair of the Department of Engineering Education at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

With a string of rocket launches nearly 60 miles to the north, hundreds of industry leaders, scientists and educators gathered on Florida’s Space Coast last week to assess the state’s foothold in semiconductor production.

As the world marks the third anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine, a team of University of Florida researchers is working to secure vulnerable cyber-physical networks in the war-torn nation.

Nian Wang, J. R. (Rip) Graves Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), and Piyush Jain, Exxon Mobil Gator Alumni Faculty Endowed Professor and associate professor in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors, the organization announced today. They […]

Imagine a digital watermark that could remove the guesswork and actually flag AI-generated text whenever someone submits their writing. A University of Florida engineering professor is developing this technology right now.

In a continuing partnership, the U.S. Air Force has awarded the University of Florida a $49 million contract for cutting-edge research and workforce development at UF’s regional engineering campus adjacent to Eglin Air Force Base.

Inspired by the art and architecture of France, University of Florida engineering students showcased their artistic sides last week during downtown Gainesville’s Artwalk.