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UF’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures helps students understand the context behind classic stories within their studies of different cultures.

Faculty and researchers collaborate and innovate to gain a deeper understanding of our world.

Professor Sid Dobrin examines storytelling as our oldest technology—and why its future will be shaped by both innovation and lived experience.

Explore new 2026 book releases from the faculty and alumni of the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Once dismissed as children’s entertainment, comics have emerged as a respected literary medium. At the University of Florida, the nation’s first graduate program dedicated to comics studies helped transform how comics are taught, researched and understood.

UF Instructional Professor Emily Rine Butler, Ph.D., who is also the director of the Dial Center for Speech and Communications Studies, talks to WUFT about the center and its goals.

UF Associate Professor of Geological Sciences Amy Williams comments on the possibility of NASA finding life on Mars.

The appointment marks a new chapter for the center, building on recent growth in academic programming, research and community partnerships.

UF Instructional Professor of History Steven Noll, Ph.D., speaks about the Cross Florida Barge Canal and what is has developed into.

UF Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann, Ph.D., was co-author of a study that revealed a rocky exoplanet of a nearby star may have an atmosphere.

The Magellan Clay telescope showed proof of helium escaping from a planet originally discovered by UF Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann, Ph.D., pointing to the potential of an atmosphere.

The new promotions and tenure awards reflect the faculty members’ distinguished work in teaching, research and service.

An article about defensive earthworks in northern Nigeria and the Sahel referenced the research of UF Associate Professor of Geography Olivier Walther, Ph.D., and political geographer Steven Radil, Ph.D.

Healthy gut microbes in 6-week-old infants were linked to a lower risk of malaria during babies’ first year of life.

Dan Smith, UF faculty member since 2003, has received the 2026 Career Achievement Award from the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.

A paper co-authored by University of Florida Assistant Professor of Economics Eugenio Rojas, Ph.D., was referenced in a story by the Financial Times.

UF Associate Professor of Geophysics Raymond Russo, Ph.D., speaks on a 6.1 magnitude earthquake off the west coat of Cuba that shook parts of Florida.

UF Professor Emeritus Greg Glass, Ph.D., speaks on the relocation of rats as it relates to the spread of viruses.

UF Professor of Anthropology Michael Heckenberger, Ph.D., contributes to an article about urbanism in the Amazon.

UF Professor of Biology Todd Palmer, Ph.D., was part of a study that found that when elephants were removed from experimental landscapes, dung beetle populations collapsed.