Author: douglasray@ufl.edu

Adrienne Provost has been appointed as the director of the college’s newly formed Office of Student Strategic Initiatives to promote access and opportunities for all students across Florida.

Brazilian administrations, whether of the right or left, have promoted an ambitious project to boost exports and the economy with new roads, dams and industry that threaten the region’s fragile rainforest ecosystem – and harm the world’s climate in the process – writes Robert T. Walker, professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, for The Conversation.

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, PhD, professor in the Departments of History and Biology within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

Researchers at the University of Rochester report this week in Nature a new material that is superconductive at room temperature, but while UF Professor James Hamlin, who was not involved with the work, says it would be ‘completely revolutionary,’ he also is not yet convinced.

From trendy gender-reveal parties to entrenched rituals surrounding national holidays, spectacles can wreak havoc on the environment, according to Bron Taylor, a professor of religion, nature and ethics at the University of Florida, who was quoted in a recent article in Popular Science.

Researchers at Stanford University, including one who recently joined faculty at the University of Florida, have created a new type of quantum material whose atomic scaffolding, or lattice,  has been dramatically warped into a herringbone pattern, described in a paper published today in Nature.

A documentary on prison reform in Brazil, ‘Unguarded,’ draws support from a wide range of academic centers at the University of Florida.

Artificial intelligence has lurked behind the scenes in technologies people use every day, but UF is integrating AI into the curriculum across disciplines to make it a core competency for students.

The University of Florida made the list of ALL IN Campus Democracy’s 2022 most engaged campuses for college student voting. The Bob Graham Center for Public Service has been tasked with leading the charge toward nonpartisan democratic engagement.