Category: Research

UF debuts high-tech digital research lab

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Digital Humanities Lab is a high-tech workspace supporting research, collaboration and innovation.

UF/IFAS harvest provides hope for Florida’s citrus

Researchers will use harvested fruit data from 2022 to 2026 to analyze how potential solutions might offer farmers hope against citrus greening.

Lessons from Shell Mound

When Hurricane Helene tore through Florida’s Big Bend, it didn’t just damage homes and shorelines — it reshaped a 1,000-year-old archaeological site. Discover how UF researchers are restoring Shell Mound near Cedar Key and what this ancient Indigenous gathering place can teach us about resilience, climate change and coastal living today.

Enhancing HPV self-testing to screen for cervical cancer

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers use community focus groups to zero in on ways to improve patient education materials on HPV self-collection.

UF lecturer authors National Geographic article

Cynthia Barnett is the author of “See a ghost ‘fairyland’ forest reemerge in Florida,” published in National Geographic earlier this month.

The new face of HIV in Florida

After four decades of hard-won progress toward curbing the HIV epidemic, the face of the disease is changing.

PulsePoint helps Alachua County bystanders save lives

Research shows that after the local activation of PulsePoint, bystander CPR performed outside a hospital significantly increased.

HiPerGator supercomputer accelerates diabetes drug discovery

Working with Theodore Kamenecka, Ph.D., UF Scripps Scientific Director Patrick Griffin, Ph.D., has designed potential medications for type 2 diabetes.

How VR could redefine the way we experience art and culture

In a new study, UF HHP professor Svetlana Stepchenkova, Ph.D., analyzes how audiences respond to VR when seeking authentic cultural experiences.

Inside new science exposing how humidity can escalate a heat wave

Associate professor David Keellings, Ph.D., is part of a UF team that has developed a groundbreaking way of measuring heat waves.