Category: Student Spotlight

While access has improved for people with disabilities, small inconveniences still exist everywhere. To solve that — piece by piece — students from the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering are helping design 3D-printed assistive devices for locals with unique needs.

Eight HWCOE students and organizations have been selected as award recipients at the 2026 UF Student Engagement Involvement Awards Ceremony. This competitive event is held every year and seeks applications from across the UF campus.

Less than a month after UF’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge Team made history by capturing its fifth consecutive national title, another UF civil engineering team paddled its way to its fifth national title (four in the last six years). 

The Eckhoff Steel Bridge Team has captured its fifth consecutive national title. The championship marks the UF team’s seventh first-place win since 1997, the most wins by a single team in the competition’s 33-year history.

UF engineering students Mollie Brewer and Kevin Childs are co-primary investigators on a paper exploring how coaches analyze data – often from wearable sensors – to shape training and strategy and, ultimately, win more games.

Twice every school day, student musicians climb 194 stairs to perform mini-concerts 157 feet above the University of Florida campus.  Their instrument, the carillon, originated in 16th century Belgium and the Netherlands. Townspeople would gather at markets while the bells’ sweet tones echoed overhead from the tower and served as a soundtrack to their lives.  […]

Four of the 25 students recently inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame are engineering majors from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Alexis Boselli, Amit Sapir, Ashni Zaverchand, and Juan Valderrama have won UF’s top student honor. The Hall of Fame recognizes students who consistently enhance the student experience through community involvement, campus activities, […]

UF’s IPPD celebrates 30 years of solving problems with products.

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.

UF’s Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers named one of the strongest national chapters