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Student Profile — Phillip Dmitriev

Oxford Bound To study something as complex as the human brain, one certainly needs a well-rounded education, and Phillip Dmitriev ’17, has immersed himself in an interdisciplinary program at UF to do just that. A budding physician-scientist majoring in microbiology and neurobiological sciences in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dmitriev’s research interests revolve around cognitive disorders, […]

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Bones Got Bite

Anthropological analysis of shark bites provides a new standard for forensic science.

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Crab Love in the Garbage Patch

Joseph Pfaller and Michael Gil have led several projects that culminated in an intriguing finding: crabs exhibit different mating behavior when living tucked below the carapace of a loggerhead turtle than in a nest of plastic.

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Extracurricular — Alinda Saintval

Alinda Saintval ’19 is a zoology and visual arts studies major, who has parlayed her passion and talent for art into an enterprise painting personalized backpacks.

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Sara Kurtevski

For Sara Kurtevski ’17 (BA Spanish, BA Psychology, summa cum laude) the summer of 2015 proved to be an important turning point. Sara had always had a love for travel, language, and culture, and as a pre-med student, she sought opportunities to combine her dual passions for the sciences and the humanities. So when she […]

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You May Recycle, But You’re Still Not Cool

UF researchers conduct first implicit bias research on environmentalist attitudes and behaviors.

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War Stories

UF is a top contributor to Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. World War II veteran Frank Towers landed on Utah Beach shortly after D-Day, survived the frigid nights of the Battle of the Bulge, and participated in the liberation of thousands of Jews headed to the death camps just before that terrible war ended […]

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Student Profile — Hector Lacera

How one boy’s love of physics started with a cat. Even as a small child, Hector Lacera ’18 wanted to understand the nature of things. He distinctly remembers the first time he felt the inexorable tug of physics. He was seven years old and living in Bogotá, Colombia. One afternoon, while petting the family cat, […]

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Student Profile — Gabriella Larios

Breaking the Color Barrier Gabriella Larios ’17 enjoys putting the pieces together — literally. This aspiring lawyer discovered jigsaw puzzles for stress relief while studying for the LSAT and now regularly assembles 500-piece puzzles when she’s not leading student government or leadership training. A women’s studies and political science double major from an all-girls Catholic […]

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Extracurricular — Taylor Rouviere

Actor and student Taylor Rouviere hits the books on the film set.

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Student Profile — Sujaya Rajguru

This aspiring doctor embraces music, sport and history.

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As Elephants Go, So Do the Trees

Research shows hunting can have catastrophic effects on tropical forests. Overhunting has been disastrous for elephants, but their forest habitats have also been caught in the crossfire. A first-of-its-kind study led by researchers at the University of Florida shows that the dramatic loss of elephants, which disperse seeds after eating vegetation, is leading to the […]