Category: Stories
Al Carlson, Business Newsmaker of the Year
January 5, 2017SRQ Magazine named Al Carlson, the UF Innovation Station Sarasota County Regional Director, as SRQ’s business newsmaker of 2016!
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January 5, 2017The Gator Outreach Initiative is committed to inspiring K-12 interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
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December 15, 2016Students must demonstrate extraordinary academic and extracurricular involvement, as well as graduate with honors in their major.
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December 13, 2016An international patent attorney and a biomedical entrepreneur will serve as chair and vice chair. Both are Gator Engineers.
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December 2, 2016David Nelms visited campus in November of 2016. Nelms, along with former Florida senator Bob Graham and several other political, academic and business leaders, is a member of the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education. He set aside time to meet with UF’s Office for Student Financial Affairs. He also toured the new […]
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President Obama taps UF president for National Science Board
November 3, 2016W. Kent Fuchs, Ph.D., will help shape National Science Foundation priorities and advise the President and Congress on policies related to science and engineering.
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May the Best Brain Win
October 28, 2016Daily Planet’s host Ziya Tong challenges reigning #BrainDroneRace champion and UF student Amber Hawthorne. Watch the race on Discovery Canada.
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October 24, 2016Originally posted in The Alligator Two UF professors juxtaposed how to make voting accessible and secure with what those votes could mean for the presidency Tuesday night. About 50 people sat in the Pugh Hall Ocora as UF professors Juan Gilbert and Michael McDonald discussed new voting technology, as well as the early votes already […]
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Collaborative engineering research could lead to scar-free healing
October 20, 2016UF researcher Chelsey Simmons is studying the cellular mechanics of fibrosis and regeneration in a unique breed of mammals.
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In lieu of Excellence Rising event, informal groundbreaking held
October 6, 2016With Hurricane Matthew headed for Florida, Dean Abernathy & Dr. Wertheim held an informal groundbreaking to commemorate new Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence.
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