Awards & Honors
Prof. Xiao-Xiao Zhang Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Xiao-Xiao Zhang, assistant professor in the UF Department of Physics, was awarded the prestigious NSF grant to further her research.
History and Philosophy Student Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Aimee Clesi is the University of Florida's first Rhodes Scholar since 2000.
Dimitri Bourilkov Elected American Physical Society Fellow
Dimitri Bourilkov, associate scientist in the Department of Physics, was recognized for his work in data-intensive science.
Prof. Mary Ann Eaverly Recognized as ‘Luminary’ by Eos Africana
Recognizing her scholarly achievements, Professor of Classics Mary Ann Eaverly was interviewed as an "Eos Luminary" by the society.
UF Team Wins Best Paper Award from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Statistics professor Joseph Antonelli was part of a team recognized for the paper “Parental Language Input to Children With Hearing Loss: Does It Matter in the End?"
Prof. Yuxuan Wang Wins Nevill Mott Prize
Yuxuan Wang, UF Assistant Professor of Physics, was recognized for "outstanding contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems."
Prof. Juliane Dannberg Receives Jason Morgan Early Career Award
The geological sciences professor was selected for her outstanding contributions to the field of tectonophysics.
Physics Graduate Student Receives Prize for Invited Talk
Physics graduate student Prachi Sharma received the best presentation SIlver Prize for her invited talk at an international conference.
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.
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.