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The University of Florida is a top-10 public, land-grant research university and the state’s oldest and most comprehensive higher education institution. With 16 colleges and more than 170 research centers and institutes on its Gainesville campus, UF is among the nation’s six most academically diverse universities.
A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, UF is consistently ranked among the nation’s best institutions: No. 8 in U.S. News & World Report’s “Top Public Schools” (2019); No. 1 in the Times Higher Education rankings for graduate employability (2016); No. 2 in Kiplinger’s “Best Values in Public Colleges” (2018); and No. 10 on the Forbes list of best value public universities (2019).
UF is a leader in research and discoveries which improve the lives of individuals throughout the state, nation and world. Its 6,000 faculty members conducted a record $865 million in research in 2018, with major funding from the public and private sectors. These research collaborations occur in diverse fields that include human, animal and agricultural life sciences, engineering and the physical and social sciences.
The university is also recognized as an international leader in technology commercialization, dating back to its development of the sports drink Gatorade in the 1960s. UF Innovate is regularly ranked among the top 10 institutions in the nation for technology licensing, patents and start-ups, as ranked by the Association of University Technology Managers, and its two business incubators have been named best in the world on several occasions.
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Professors help students question their beliefs and assumptions. How should they build the trust?
Both have been much maligned by parents who felt like they couldn’t help their kids with basic math homework. But the Common Core could help with conceptual understanding and math intuition.
It’s not necessarily the redesign that matters – it’s when and how you unveil it.
Parent involvement with kids’ homework can have both positive and negative effects. So, what should parents and educators do?
Acts of destruction and vandalism against antiquities may reveal an underlying secular modernism or even iconoclastic atheism in seemingly hard-line Islamic fanatics.
Some activists use open records requests to bully researchers – distracting them from their actual work and silencing others who don’t want to draw attention.
Rudeness causes medical teams to perform worse, and ultimately this could have huge costs for patients.
For language learners, the two-way immersion program has shown high success rates. What makes the program so effective?
Plants on the International Space Station must figure out how to grow in a completely novel environment. Their adaptability hints at how they’ll react to changes here on Earth – or in future space outposts.
The gerrymandered district has been part of the US political landscape for two centuries. Impartial math suggests several methods for drawing fair, competitive congressional districts.
Separation of disciplines in academia hurts our ability to innovate and solve big problems.
The Americans with Disabilities Act turned 25 on July 26. Some of the changes that it ushered in are reflected every day on our campuses, through technologies that allow people to learn and to work.
A rash of white shark attacks this summer points to a rebounding population in the US – a sign of healthier oceans and the need to coexist with this apex predator.
It turns out that people who’ve experienced rude behavior from others are “infected” with rudeness and will be rude to the people they interact with next.
We can thank scholarly misinterpretation for the well-known but inaccurate map of the tongue.
SCOTUS effectively continued the practice of lethal injection with its ruling. But is lethal injection really as humane as we think?
What are the consequences of defining marriage as a “fundamental liberty”? And what difference will this ruling make to discrimination against gays and lesbians in other areas of life?
People shouldn’t let these tricky puzzlers reinforce their misguided notion that they stink at math.
Rooftop solar power is exploding in the US but some scientists are pursuing a radically different route in renewable energy: storing solar energy as a liquid fuel.
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Director of Partner Strategies - Center for Public Interest Communications, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Florida
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Director, Center for Public Interest Communications, University of Florida
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Distinguished Professor and Director of Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI), University of Florida
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Instructional Associate Professor, Sport Management, University of Florida
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Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Florida
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Professor of Neurology, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology, University of Florida
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Professor of Neurology, University of Florida
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Head of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Florida
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Ph.D. Student in Geological Sciences, University of Florida
