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Developing Career-Ready Graduates: The Importance of AI Literacy Across the Curriculum

Co-Chairs of UF's AI Across the Curriculum Program Development Jane Southworth and Kati Migliaccio discuss AI literacy concepts and propose four types for course design and curriculum evaluation.

How Our Shared Need for Belonging Made May the 4th a Sacred Star Wars Holiday

R. David Thomas Endowed Professor of Psychology Gregory Webster explains the human social behavior driving the holiday's momentum.

UF Hosts AI and Ethics Panel

The University of Florida hosted a panel on ethics in artificial intelligence, with faculty members exploring the important role of ethics as scientists race toward increasingly sophisticated AI technologies.

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UF Chemists Score Major Grant for Breakthrough Research in Polymer Science

Thanks to a MURI Grant from the U.S Department of Defense, chemists at UF will be able to expand their polymer research.

UF Professor Elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected Vasudha Narayanan, a distinguished professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida, as a new member.

UF Research Foundation Names 2023 Professors

Of the 34 professor listed as the most productive and promising faculty members, six work in various CLAS departments.

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History Student Named UF’s First Beinecke Scholar in 15 Years

Third-year honors student Patrick Grey was selected as a 2023 Beinecke Scholar, a prestigious award supporting his future graduate education.

CLAS Professor Joins the AAAS Board

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.

Celebrating a Record-Breaking Giving Day

The college received a record-breaking number of gifts from Gators all over the world on Giving Day 2023.

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UF Students Earn Honors at International Math Challenge

Two UF teams received awards for their work with differential equations.

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CLAS Researchers Named Scialog Fellows

UF researchers join Scialog's "Signatures of Life in the Universe," a collaboration that explores the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.

This illustration depicts a herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a quantum material created by researchers at SLAC and Stanford.

UF, Stanford researchers make new type of quantum material with dramatic pattern

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.