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Paper on Retaining Black Computer Science Students Co-Authored by CISE Chair Earns Best Paper Award at Respect 2020

A paper titled, “The iAAMCS Ecosystem: Retaining Blacks/African-Americans in CS Ph.D. Programs,” earned a best paper award at the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained...

Florida Peanut Federation Donates Plot Planter to UF/IFAS

The Florida Peanut Federation (FPF) holds fast to its mission “strive to improve and develop a thriving and sustainable peanut industry, ensuring all of Florida’s...

UF Researcher Receives Award From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

The sleep medicine subspecialty is a rapidly evolving field and one that needs leaders and educators to cultivate the next generation. A practicing clinician and...

CitraBlue, a New St. Augustinegrass, Released

The University of Florida’s first turfgrass release in over a decade, CitraBlue St. Augustinegrass, is now available for purchase throughout Florida. Currently, there are more...

UF Innovate | The Hub Celebrates 10 Years Since Groundbreaking

UF Innovate | The Hub is a place where entrepreneurs take a creative idea and make it into a legitimate business. In the past 10...

AGTC Launches Nationwide Mobile Vision Testing Program for Patients Enrolled in Its Ongoing Phase 1/2 Clinical Trials

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus...

Brain Cancer Expert Elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida

Duane A. Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., a leading expert in the search for ways to treat aggressive adult and pediatric brain tumors, has been elected a...

UF Spinout With Animal Health Tech Wins Seedfunders’ Pitch Event at Synapse

Seedfunders, a St. Petersburg-based early-stage investment firm, will invest $5,000 in UF startup VetGuardian with technology designed to keep animals healthier and veterinarians safer. VetGuardian,...

Oxidien Among Top Three Winners of Digital RESI June Innovation Challenge

The 3-day Digital RESI June conference announced the Top 3 Winners of the Innovation Challenge. UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Oxidien Pharmaceuticals was among the winners....

McMullen Uses 3D Audio Rendering and Perception to Aid Firefighters

Kyla McMullen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, believes...

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