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Cooking for a lifetime of cancer prevention

a hand sprinkling salt into a pan of vegetables while cooking

Join UF/IFAS Extension on March 30 at noon for an educational workshop and live cooking demonstration focused on colorectal cancer prevention.

Join the Gator Vets network

U F Century Tower and a flag pole with an American flag waving

Gator Vets is an informal, employee-led network supporting UF faculty and staff who are veterans, Guard and Reserve members, military spouses and allies.

UF’s RoboPI lab makes waves with marine robots

Doctor Md Jahidul Islam and another researcher sitting off the side of a boat with a piece of machinery.

As director of the UF RoboPI lab, Md Jahidul Islam, Ph.D., seeks to ease the danger for humans working and exploring in the ocean.

Cold-hardy avocados could transform Florida’s fruit industry

Associate Professor of Horticultural Sciences Doctor José Chaparro inspecting a branch of an avocado tree.

Associate Professor José Chaparro, Ph.D., is leading the effort to breed avocados that can thrive in North Central Florida.

Scientists create synthetic mucus to fight IBD

Synthetic mucuc being stretched between two fingers in front of a face that is out of focus in the background.

Luiz Roesch, Ph.D., and Brent Sumerlin, Ph.D., have created an artificial mucus that could prevent problems related to bowel inflammation.

Research-backed toolkit tackles childhood food insecurity

Headshot of doctor Amy Mobley

Amy Mobley, Ph.D., is leading a five-year program to improve access to nutritious foods for families with young children in Alachua and Leon counties.

Elevating care by empowering nurses

Two U F Health nurses in scrubs smiling and posing with each other in a U F Health facility.

The UF College of Nursing is launching an initiative to strengthen nurse education, expand workforce readiness and improve access to care.

UF EPI expert breaks down brain-colonizing fungus

Headshot of Doctor Luis Martinez smiling.

Luis R. Martinez, Ph.D., addresses key questions surrounding cryptococcus neoformans, the leading cause of fungal meningitis.

Chasing the rare arogos skipper butterfly

A Florida Museum researcher walking through a field of rayless sunflowers and tall grass with a large butterfly net over one shoulder.

Florida Museum researchers hope to gather data that will guide conservation efforts and support future protections for the species.

How location — and thoughts on death — shape travel choices

A silhouette of a person holding onto a suitcase and looking out a floor-to-ceiling window at a silhouette of a plane flying in the background.

UF HHP researchers found that people’s responses to thoughts of their own mortality — and the travel decisions that follow — vary depending on where they live.

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