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The University of Florida SaferPlaces Lab, which is developing crime-prevention tools for Gainesville communities, won the Win Phillips Town Gown Relations Award on Friday.
Established in 2021 and led by UF research scientist and criminologist Read Hayes, Ph.D., the SaferPlaces Lab develops evidence-based, community-scale programs that test high-impact crime prevention tools and processes.
“The driving mission — the why — is to better safeguard vulnerable people and assets in spaces and places across the Gainesville community, the state and the nation,” noted Erik Sander, the executive director of the UF Engineering Innovation Institute, in his letter nominating Hayes and the lab.
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