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  • C3 creates new experiential learning scholarship
    The UF Career Connection Center (C3) has created the new UF Thrive Experiential Learning Scholarship, which expands student pathways to meaningful learning beyond the classroom by reducing financial barriers for University of Florida students. UF Thrive provides financial support that enables students to participate in hands‑on opportunities that prepare them to apply their knowledge, develop professional skills, and become world‑ready… Read more: C3 creates new experiential learning scholarship
  • HWCOE students receive special graduation distinction
    The Research Excellence Program for Undergraduates (REPU) recognizes UF students who achieve significant experience in their research careers during their studies. Upon successful completion and documentation of REPU requirements, students were recognized by the Center for Undergraduate Research as a REPU scholar and awarded graduation chords that signify their exemplary participation in research. Congratulations to… Read more: HWCOE students receive special graduation distinction
  • From jar openers to key grippers, devices designed by UF students help people with disabilities
    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.
  • Engineering Leaders WIN Multiple Awards at UF Ceremony
    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.
  • Growing engineering and arts programs ‘Won’t Back Down’ in Europe
    With Tom Petty providing their soundtrack, about 110 University of Florida students explored the intersection of engineering and art in Europe this summer. 
  • UF concrete canoe team claims its fifth championship
    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). 
  • Center for Experiential Learning launches with Sarah Furtney as director
    The HWCOE office of Student Affairs’ new Center for Experiential Learning is launching this winter with inaugural director, Sarah Furtney, Ph.D. The Experiential Learning Center is a single place where students, faculty, advisors, and industry partners can go for information and support about co-curricular, outside-of-the-classroom, formative experiences for our Gator Engineering students.
  • Center for Experiential Learning welcomes Joel Parker
    Joel comes to us from HWCOE First Year Advising and has extensive experience as an advisor and educator for our students. He completed graduate studies in Art History at UF, earned an MFA in Painting at Washington University in St. Lous, and received BA’s in Studio Art and Art History from the College of Charleston. Joel started his career here at UF as an academic advisor in HWCOE Advising in 2014.
  • UF civil engineering teams dominate in Georgia
    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.
  • Superstar UF iGEM Team Wins Gold in Paris with Biomanufactured Organoid Models
    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.