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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.

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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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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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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. 

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Students Awarded at National Math Modeling Challenge

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

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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.

Clifford Will

Clifford Will Receives Einstein Prize

Physics Professor Clifford Will received the 2021 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society.

Chemistry Professor Coray Colina Receives Prestigious Fulbright Award

The award will allow Colina to research and lecture at UNAM in Mexico City for the 2020–21 academic year.

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What Your Work Was Really About

The Lyle N. McAlister Archival Research Fellowship Fund will support students' travel to Latin America or Europe for their dissertation work.

Graduate student Quadry Chance

Astronomy Graduate Student Quadry Chance Named Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Department of Astronomy graduate student Quadry Chance was recently named one of this year’s Predoctoral Fellows at the Center for Computational Astrophysics.

Physics Machine Shop Building Device to Protect Health Workers

A decontamination unit is in the works to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in health care facilities.

When the Dinosaurs Died, the Ferns Survived

Biology professor Emily Sessa receives NASA grant to understand why ferns bounced back after a mass extinction.

Physics Professor Bartos Named 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Imre Bartos probes gravitational wave surges, a topic that has exploded with intriguing questions in the last five years.

Ytori Fall 2019 Featured Story

Reimagining the Humanities

Now in its second decade, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere is bringing disciplines together to tackle grand-challenge questions.