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UF Researcher Awarded NSF Grant to Measure the Surface Energy of Metals

Kirk J. Ziegler, Ph.D., the Dow Chemical Company Foundation Professor and associate chair for graduate studies at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering...

Eisenstadt Introduces Smart Mosquito Cages to Effectively Test Insecticides

The fact that mosquito-borne illness is a threat to public health is not news. Nor is the practice of spraying insecticides to control the mosquito...

Robert Guralnick Named UF Research Foundation Professor

The University of Florida Research Foundation has named Florida Museum of Natural History scientist Robert Guralnick a UFRF Professor for 2020-2023. In his role as...

Pheronym Granted Patent for Ag Bio-Remediation Breakthrough

UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Pheronym, an Ag-biotech pest control company, has been granted its patent for...

UF Chemists Target Toxic Algae Blooms in Florida’s Lakes and Rivers

As large blooms of toxic blue-green algae have become an annual phenomenon in Florida’s freshwater lakes and rivers, as well as other places worldwide, University...

UF Partners on $26M Grant to Produce More Crops With Less Water and Energy

University of Florida is partnering on a $26 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop new technologies and systems that will help farmers produce more food...

UF/IFAS Scientist Named Fellow of American Phytopathological Society

Working at her lab and fields at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Natalia Peres diagnoses and helps manage diseases that might otherwise...

UF Researchers Discover Molecular Address System That May Aid Gut Health

Building on previous findings that show a specific protein is associated with gut health, University of Florida researchers have discovered an intricate molecular mechanism that...

Five Questions for Michael S. Okun, M.D.

Michael S. Okun, M.D. is chair of Neurology, Adelaide Lackner professor, and executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University...

UF Startup Among Small Drones Vendors for Federal Procurement

The Defense Innovation Unit has announced that starting September 2020, agencies can use the General Services Administration Schedule to buy from five drone manufacturing companies that were...

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