President’s Office Announces $10.2 Million for Fourth Round of Strategic Funding Awardees
The UF President's Office recently announced a fourth round of strategic funding to grow UF's research capabilities in critical areas of AI, space exploration, healthcare, and more.
My Tutor Is an AI: UF Researchers Seek Out if AI Tutors Are As Effective as Human Ones
Artificial Intelligence is now being used to help tutor students at all educational levels. AI tutors can enhance learning outcomes such as facilitating various teaching-learning practices within and outside the classroom, supporting students 24/7, and providing students from economically disadvantaged areas access to all kinds of learning materials without being in the same geographical location.
Janice Krieger Receives $2.1 Million Grant to Use Virtual Human Technology to Promote Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Adult Minorities
Janice Krieger, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center director, and a team of researchers has been awarded a National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant to use the virtual health assistant ALEX (Agent Leveraging Empathy for eXams) to recruit older adult minorities for clinical trials.
UF Nursing Researchers Provide Parents CHOICES for Reproductive Health
Two University of Florida College of Nursing researchers earned a four-year $3 million grant to support a large national study to test the effect of a web-based educational tool that aims to help young adults understand sickle cell disease — or even prevent it from being inherited.