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Grant seeks to prevent implicit bias among clinical researchers, address racial disparities

A team of all-female physicians and scientists is leveraging personal experiences with underrepresentation in medicine to begin identifying a solution toward implicit bias in clinical research.

Azra Bihorac, M.D., M.S., Crystal Johnson-Mann, M.D., and Della V. Mosley, Ph.D.

Grant seeks to prevent implicit bias among clinical researchers, address racial disparities

A team of all-female physicians and scientists is leveraging personal experiences with underrepresentation in medicine to begin identifying a solution toward implicit bias in clinical research.

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Rick Yost Awarded Analytical Chemistry Award

Chemistry professor Rick Yost has been awarded the 2021 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award for his work in the fields of mass spectrometry and analytical chemistry.

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Newly Funded Psychology Research Looks to Improve Alzheimer’s Navigation Impairment

The projects received more than $867,000 through grants from the Florida Department of Health and the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging.

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Margaret Galvan Receives Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship

Galvan will research how American LGBTQ cartoonists in the 1980s and 1990s formed community through comics.

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Why We’re So Bad at Daydreaming, and How To Fix It

Psychology professor Erin Westgate shares how the ability to think for pleasure is important, and you can get better at it.

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UF Researcher Helps Confirm Ancient Primates Once Walked with Dinosaurs

A new study featuring UF geology assistant professor Courtney J. Sprain helps us better understand the oldest known primates.

How Virtual Reality Can Make History Accessible

English PhD student Laken Brooks uses virtual reality to highlight marginalized groups and histories.

Helping Students Through Difficult Times

The CLAS Cares fund helped Elisabeth Rios-Brooks weather a difficult period.

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UF Math Professor Sara Pollock Receives NSF CAREER Award

Math Professor Sara Pollock has received a prestigious CAREER award from the NSF to support ongoing research.

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The History of Self-Help

Associate professor Trysh Travis offers a new perspective on the history of self-help books as a guest on the popular By the Book podcast.

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Finding His Spark: Jon Renthrope and Cajun Fire Brewery

Alum Renthrope is the founder and CEO of Cajun Fire Brewing Company, only the fifth Black-owned brewery in the history of the United States and the first in the South.