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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.

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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.

Rare Bird Behavior Observed in Southern China

Department of Biology graduate student Wenyi Zhou observes a rare social behavior between two species of birds.

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look deep into the heart of the pair of merging galaxies known as UGC 4211 discovered two black holes growing side by side, just 750 light-years apart. This artist’s conception shows the late-stage galaxy merger and its two central black holes. The binary black holes are the closest together ever observed in multiple wavelengths.

Scientists Find Black Holes Tangled in Cosmic Dance

An international team of scientists, including UF astrophysicist Laura Blecha, makes a surprising discovery at the heart of a galactic merger that could expand our knowledge of space and time.

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A New Form of Carbon Sparks Exciting Possibilities

Chemist Austin M. Evans contributes to a groundbreaking discovery that unveils a new form of carbon.

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Rebounding Green Sea Turtle Populations Reshape Coastal Ecosystems

Marine ecologist Alexandra Gulick offers a critical understanding of green sea turtle foraging behavior as they resume their historical ecological roles.

Getting Ahead of Climate-Related Health Risks

UF medical geographer Sadie Ryan contributes to a sweeping climate-health analysis, offering a path forward for those addressing urgent public health needs.

Presidential Task Force on African American and Native American History and the University of Florida

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020, President Kent Fuchs formed a task force to investigate UF’s historical relationship to Black and Indigenous peoples. Department of History faculty played an important role in the Presidential Task Force.

In East Gainesville, Community Members Train to Become Mental Health and Well-Being Coaches

UF researchers are working to address mental health disparities by joining with the Florida Blue Foundation and a collaborative of local churches on a new community-centered program.

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An Innovation in Polymer Membranes Makes Chemical Filtration More Sustainable

An international research team has produced a new membrane filtration system that improves the efficiency of some of the most energy-intensive processes used by major industries today.

Mars rover team, with UF scientist, collects Martian rocks for return to Earth

Using NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, a team of scientists including University of Florida astrobiologist Amy Williams has collected the first Martian rock samples that could be returned to Earth.

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A UF Chemist’s Breakthrough with Tiny Particles is a Big Deal for Design

UF chemist Charles Cao and a team of researchers reveal previously unknown possibilities of nanocrystals.

How to Stay Safe in a Thunderstorm

How does lightning form? How can you stay safe? And does Florida really have more thunderstorms than other states? Geography professor Corene Matyas explains.

A CLAS Professor Dug into an Archive. She Found a Colleague Waiting for Her.

After Trysh Travis came across fellow CLAS professor Laurie Mintz's 1984 registration letter for a national meeting of women's centers, the two reflected on these groups and how they've changed in the ensuing decades.

UF scientists probe the cosmos with the new James Webb Space Telescope

The telescope’s data will transform how we understand our universe, and University of Florida astronomers and physicists are on the vanguard of these discoveries.

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UF’s Sadie Ryan to Co-Lead NSF-Funded Institute for Emerging Virus Research

Medical geographer Sadie Ryan will co-lead the new institute, which will work to predict and prevent pandemics using machine learning techniques and open source data.

Discovery of new exoplanet raises questions about planet formation

Astronomers have identified one of the youngest exoplanets ever discovered, hidden in the swirl of gas around a newly born star 390 light-years from Earth.

UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tops $57 Million in 2022 Research Spending

The University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences contributed to a record $1 billion in university-wide research spending for 2022.