Category: Research

Florida struggles with affordable housing despite construction boom 

A New UF report on recent housing trends highlights a continued shortage of affordable housing for the workforce and seniors on fixed incomes.


Nutrition labels meant to promote healthy eating could discourage purchases

In a new UF/IFAS study, researchers found that front-of-package health labels decreased consumers’ willingness to pay for yogurt unless backed by the FDA.


Cup o’ Joe: The road trip episode

Join Interim Provost Joe Glover, Ph.D., on a frigid road trip to the beach to see what’s happening at UF’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in Cup o’ Joe’s third episode. Meet Whitney’s new director, check out its new building, hear from its researchers … and experience encounters with salad (and marine animals).


Researchers take step toward creating Salmonella vaccine

UF/IFAS microbiology researchers have published a study that they hope will lead to a vaccine against Salmonella.


Beyond consent: Rethinking privacy in the digital age

Work by Jasmine McNealy, Ph.D., on cyberlaw and data privacy sheds light on the limitations of the traditional models we rely on to protect users’ privacy.


Participate in a UF/IFAS nutrition research study

Take part in a six-week online cooking program designed to help increase your fruit and vegetable intake and reduce the risk for kidney disease.


The Conversation: A UF neuroscientist explains the science of pain

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, Ph.D., explains the science of pain and how it works as a warning signal from your body to protect you.  


UF Health Type 1 diabetes researchers contribute to international guidelines

Michael Haller, M.D., chief of pediatric endocrinology in the UF College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and a member of the UF Diabetes Institute, led an international team of Type 1 diabetes experts to develop new treatment guidelines emphasizing wider screening for the disease among children and adolescents in the general population before symptoms arise.


One of higher education’s fastest supercomputers arrives at the University of Florida

The first components of HiPerGator AI 2.0, expected to be one of the country’s fastest university-owned supercomputers, arrived last week at UF’s Data Center.


Humanities play integral role in the UF Astraeus Space Institute

In establishing a space institute at the University of Florida, collaborators continue to anchor their work in the human element of imagination.


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