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Professor of Political Science Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Professor Leslie Elin Anderson investigates Nicaraguan politics. Professor of Political Science Leslie Elin Anderson has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her book project, Democratic Enclaves in Times of Trouble: The Politics of Resistance in Nicaragua. The fellowship is part of the NEH’s $16.3 million awarded in this grant cycle. […]

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Settling a 13th-century Theological Debate?

Nina Caputo, an associate professor in history, collaborated with illustrator Liz Clarke to create the first medieval graphic history.

Kevin Knudson points to math equation written on chalkboard

Pop Quiz

It's pop quiz time!

Rosetta Stone

Does Rosetta Stone Work?

UF’s Gillian Lord conducts the first study comparing learning Spanish in the classroom and from the popular language program.

Zika virus

Global Issues — Ten Things to Know about Zika

UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) is on the front lines of defense against Zika, which has traveled through Central America into the United States, with the first Florida cases in July 2016.

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The Big Chirp

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, has detected two “chirps” of gravitational waves — a cute phrase for an epic cosmic event, the merger and collapse of two black holes.

The Field Museum partnered with Off Color Brewing to produce Wari, a beer named for its ancient creators. Wari, shown here surrounded by purple corn and pink peppercorns has a 4.0% ABV and IBU of about 3.

Old Family Recipe — Really, Really Old

UF anthropologists collaborate to recreate an ancient Peruvian beer.

Amy Hempel stands in front of bookcase

Gone to the Dogs

For fictionist Amy Hempel, life in the liminal exists among writing, teaching and animal rescue.

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Of Islands and Ice

UF climate scientist Andrea Dutton looks into Earth’s past to predict the patterns of future sea level rise.

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Professor of Archaeology Receives SEAC Lifetime Achievement Award

In October 2016, Dr. William H. Marquardt, Affiliate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Athens, GA. The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a senior scholar who has made significant […]

Influenza Virus

Lessons Learned from Lives Lost

UF researchers uncover surprising patterns with the spread of the great flu of 1918 In 1918, an unusually deadly flu swept the world, claiming 50 to 100 million lives in a pandemic often called the Spanish flu. Kyra Grantz, a research assistant in UF’s Department of Biology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, hopes to help prevent […]

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Election Experts

UF political science professors are a major resource for media. UF political science professors Daniel A. Smith and Michael McDonald have been featured as voting experts in nearly 60 news outlets — international, national, and regional — during the 2016 presidential campaign. Quoted directly or indirectly on a weekly, and recently daily, basis, the two […]

pipelines with oil refinery in distance

Feet to the Fire

Environment impact assessments are good for corporations and the planet. For 16 years, the Emerging Pathogens Institute’s Burton Singer has tracked a little-known undercurrent of environmental regulation. Although many scientists and activists are rightfully concerned about the effects of corporate development in vulnerable areas, such development has an important benefit: required environmental impact assessments (EIAs). […]

Riverscape in Congo

UF Historian Receives Prestigious African History Award

UF’s Nancy Rose Hunt Receives Major Book Award for Congo History Nancy Rose Hunt, UF professor of history and African studies, has received the Martin A. Klein Award honoring the best histories of Africa. The American Historical Association will present the award to Hunt in January 2017 during their 131st Annual Meeting. A Nervous State: […]

A vineyard in a valley in Ensenada, Mexico in Baja California.

Geography Department Receives NSF Grant

Robert Walker of the Center for Latin American Studies and international team receive award to study effects of neoliberal policy on Mexican farming practices and their impact on deforestation. UF’s Department of Geography and Center for Latin American Studies have received a major award from the National Science Foundation to study shifting agricultural practices in […]

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UF Researchers Tackle Dengue

Dengue vaccine could cause more severe infections in some settings. Dengue (pron. DEN-gay) is one of the most common viral infections around the world, with widespread occurrence in Africa and Southeast Asia, and can lead to the life-threatening hemorrhagic fever. Although most people recover well, UF researchers have found the first approved dengue vaccine may […]

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The Cinematic Society

UF’s Barbara Mennel Awarded Prestigious German Fellowship to Study Women and Work in Film Movies often are more telling of current social and economic issues than the news or research articles—gender issues especially so. The feminization of labor in the 21st century has been captured in film but not necessarily in scholarship. UF film studies […]

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UF’s Iron Man, Part Two

The American Chemical Society has just announced their 2016 Fellows, and UF Drago Chair of Chemistry George Christou is on the esteemed list. The ACS has named 57 chemists who have made significant contributions in their field in the July 18 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. Christou is one of only two Florida chemists named […]

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Setting the Gold Standard

UF chemistry professor is first to use light to make gold crystal nanoparticles A team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how gold can be used in crystals grown by light to create nanoparticles, a discovery that has major implications for industry and cancer treatment and could improve the function of pharmaceuticals, medical […]

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Smart Drugs

UF Chemistry Professor Receives Award for Futuristic Polymer Many people have experienced unpleasant side effects from medications – or just don’t like needles. One step to improving drug delivery for patients is to build “smart” proteins that can be released into the body as slowly and specifically as needed. Prof. Brent Sumerlin is doing just […]