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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.

The yellow-bellied sea snake is the only pelagic species in the order Squamata (snakes and lizards).

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 […]

Student writing while studying

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.

Exploring Strange New Worlds: “Star Trek” Planet Vulcan Found

Among the TV series Star Trek’s many charms are its rich universe of characters and planets. Now, the Dharma Planet Survey, in a new study led by University of Florida (UF) astronomer Jian Ge and team including Tennessee State University (TSU) astronomers Matthew Muterspaugh and Gregory Henry, has shown that science fiction may be a little less so; the Dharma project has discovered what may be Star Trek’s famed planet Vulcan.

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The Curious Origin of Space Rocks Large and Small

UF astronomer discovers the previously unknown origin of some asteroids. Emeritus professor and astronomical theoretician Stan Dermott has made a remarkable discovery about the origin of asteroids. Dermott, who studies solar system dynamics, has been peering into our Universe with all its cosmic dust and other stuff for 45 years. During his long career at […]

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Student Profile: Aaron Klein ’18

Speaking Out Aaron Klein ’18 is very persuasive — in fact, he’s the top persuasive student in Florida, and the14th most persuasive student in the U.S. Klein is a member of the UF Speech and Debate Team, and this year, he placed at multiple competitions in the American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET) […]

Faculty Profile: Mary Ann Eaverly

Classical Archaeologist “People think of archaeology as going out and digging, but that’s a small part of it,” says classics professor and chair Mary Ann Eaverly. “Once things are dug up, someone has to figure them out.” Eaverly, who also has background in art history, has spent a lifetime figuring out the intentions of early […]