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Why AI and the Humanities Need Each Other
As artificial intelligence becomes a fixture in our lives, three rising scholars had a chance to examine how our society shapes technology — and how the technology influences our society in turn.
Bringing New Life to Marginalized Stories
Researchers from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are turning to artificial intelligence to bring a vital facet of American history to light.
Countering Bias in Predictive Policing
Duncan Purves, assistant professor of philosophy, has been studying the ethics of using AI to assist police officers in anticipating crime before it happens.
A New School of Thought
As we teach machines to think for us, technology is returning the favor by revealing new insights into our own thought processes.
New Frontier
Earlier this year, UF made a significant investment by committing to hire over 100 new AI-focused faculty members. The strategic hiring initiative spans nearly every department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
PHOTOS: Spring 2021 Graduation Ceremonies
Congratulations to all Spring 2021 graduates! Below find photo galleries of the five ceremonies honoring College of Liberal Arts and Sciences graduates. Thursday, April 29 at 9 a.m.: Doctoral Ceremony Saturday, May 1 at 9 a.m.: All master’s degree candidates. Bachelor’s degree candidates for African American Studies, Anthropology, Astronomy/Astrophysics, Biology/Botany/Zoology, Chemistry/Biochemistry, Classical Studies, Computer Science, Foreign […]
Across the Pond
A Beyond120 excursion helped Hunter Hales and Kathryn Quintero realize their CLAS degrees were preparing them for rewarding opportunities they hadn’t previously considered.
Awarded Proposals for Racial Justice and Artificial Intelligence Research: Summaries
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty were recently awarded funding for proposals to advance racial justice and further the university’s standing as a national leader in artificial intelligence. You can find summaries of their projects below. Racial Justice Awards The following four CLAS faculty were awarded through the Advancing Racial Justice call for proposals. […]
Where Art and Science Meet
UF’s Studiolab brings together two cultures. Sixty years ago, scientist and novelist C.P. Snow introduced the idea of the “Two Cultures” — science and art — and how practitioners of each discipline eschewed the other. During the last six decades, barriers between the two have broken down, although siloed thinking is more prevalent than not, […]
Zika Epidemic Likely Suppressed Dengue in Latin America
Researchers from the Department of Biology describe how dengue was likely suppressed to abnormally low levels in Latin America in the years following the Zika epidemic.
Biology Senior Selected for Prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Biology senior Aaron Sandoval has been selected for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, an award given to outstanding American students to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
The Writing Life
The University of Florida’s creative writing program nurtures and pushes its graduate students.
Taking Ebola’s Measure
New research by the Department of Mathematics Distinguished Visiting Professor Burton Singer quantifies how civil disruption and violence has unraveled Ebola control measures in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A Rearranging Earth Was Bad News for Dinosaurs
Scientists have unraveled the mystery of what happened to dinosaurs in North China.
Sea Snake Skin More Resembles Elephant Skin Than Snake Skin
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — New research led by University of Florida Professor of Biology Harvey Lillywhite uncovers an odd similarity between elephant skin and the skin of the yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) — namely, its ability to create a water sheath around the animal. In addition, sea snake skin has evolved to permit the animal […]
Representing Translation
The Representation of Translation and Translators in Contemporary Media Dror Abend-David In an increasingly global and multilingual society, translators have transitioned from unobtrusive stagehands to key intercultural mediators-a development that is reflected in contemporary media. From Coppola’s Lost in Translation to television’s House M.D., and from live performance to social media, translation is rendered as […]
Onward and Online
Keiwan Ratliff ’18 started his college career in the summer of 1999 but left without a degree when he became a second-round draft pick in the NFL. He readily admits that his focus at the time was more on athletics than academics, something the Cincinnati Bengals recognized when they chose him in 2004. Ratliff played […]
SPOHP Announces New African American Oral History Symposium
November 4, 2018: For Immediate Release The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida announces: From Segregation to Black Lives Matter. A Symposium and Celebration of the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History at the University of Florida Contact: Tamarra Jenkins, (352-392-7168), aahpsymposium@gmail.com Organized by the Samuel […]
2018 African American Studies Newsletter
Dr. Vincent Adejumo Receives Teacher of the Year Award Dr. Vincent Adejumo won a Teacher of the Year Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences during the spring 2018 semester. Dr. Adejumo has been a Lecturer in the UF African American Studies Program since 2015 and had served as a graduate teaching assistant […]
Meet Raul Sanchez
In 2017, I published my second book, Inside the Subject: A Theory of Identity for the Study of Writing. It develops a theory of identity for use by scholars and researchers who study writing from postmodern perspectives. Historically, in the field of Writing Studies, the concepts of "identity" and "postmodernism" have been considered incompatible. My book tries to reconcile them.