CLAS Students and Alumni Named Fulbright Finalists for 2021-22

Out of nine UF finalists and four alternates, six finalists and two alternates were from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

UF alumna named NSF assistant director for geosciences

Alexandra Isern, who received her bachelor’s degree in geology at the University of Florida, will be the first Hispanic person and second woman to hold the position.

Carolyn Tucker Elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida

The psychology professor was honored for “creating science-based tools for health promotion and culturally sensitive health care in underserved communities.”

Astronomer Paul Torrey Receives UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors

Each year, the award honors 10 pre-tenure faculty members throughout the university who have shown outstanding promise in research.

Delia Steverson Named Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Fellow

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Career Enhancement Fellowship supports the research of underrepresented junior and other faculty members in the humanities, social sciences and arts.

Mathematics Student Wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

The University of Florida Honors Program is thrilled to announce that Muhammad Abdulla ’22 has been named a recipient of the 2021 Goldwater Scholarship.

Physics Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Congratulations to physics undergraduate student, Kathy Wiech, who is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) for Fall 2021.

U.S. News Ranks CLAS Graduate Programs Among Nation’s Best

The U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Graduate Schools rankings gave high marks to Criminology, History, English and others.

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.

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.

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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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.

2021 College Teaching/Advising Award Winners Revealed

The annual Teaching/Advising Awards recognize outstanding teachers and advisors in each college for the difference they make in students’ lives.

Students Awarded at National Math Modeling Challenge

Three teams of students received Meritorious Awards for work with differential equations.

U.S. News Ranks UF Online Psychology Bachelor’s Program #2 in the Nation

UF Online places high in the U.S. News & World Report's latest rankings.

CLAS Researchers Receive Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award

Sixteen faculty members in the college will receive the Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award to fund their research throughout 2021.

CLAS Faculty Awarded Funding for Racial Justice and Artificial Intelligence Research

Faculty members across the the college will actively contribute to two of the University of Florida’s key initiatives after receiving funding to advance racial justice and artificial intelligence research.