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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.

Integrals, differential equations and other calcululs/math problems on a blackboard

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.

UF Chemists Advance a New Frontier in Drug Design

A UF research team investigates a long-neglected mechanism to target disease treatments.

Documentary on Prison Reform in Brazil Draws Disparate UF Partners

A documentary on prison reform in Brazil, 'Unguarded,' draws support from a wide range of academic centers at the University of Florida.

Gator sculpture with globe design on campus

CLAS Scholars Win Prestigious Fulbright Awards

Eight of 11 University of Florida students named finalists for the 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program are students or alumni of the college.

George Aaron Broadwell Awarded Victor Golla Prize

In honor of linguistic scholarship and service to the scholarly community, Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology George Aaron Broadwell is presented the Victor Golla Prize by the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

Marta Wayne hikes on top jagged rocks in Japan with mountains in background.

Biologist Marta Wayne Named a Lifetime AAAS Fellow

Dean of the International Center and Associate Provost Marta Wayne earns a prestigious scientific honor for her work in evolutionary genetics.

‘Ghostly’ Particles Lead to Major Physics Discovery

A team of physicists, including UF researchers, hunts down sub-atomic specters — stumbling across a new lens for exploring protons in the process.