Category: Spotlight

Managers Cohort builds balanced leaders

Read on to learn how the Managers Cohort strengthened Eddy’s skills, expanded her perspective on leadership and continues to influence her work to this day.

Cup o’ Joe: The march of the mushrooms

Tag along with Interim Provost Joe Glover, Ph.D., as he meets UF’s Mushroom Man, gets schooled on the mysteries of mushrooms and visits UF’s little-known Fungarium.

“My organizational skills make me a better orthodontist”

Orthodontics resident Michelle Patel smiling while leaning over and working on a patient in a dental office.

Applying meticulous attention to detail, Patel creates confident, healthy smiles while advancing innovative research at the UF College of Dentistry.

Turning gameplay into healing

Hunter Ross in black and white with colorful illustrations of a game controller on the left, an I V stand on the right and a spotlight shining down on him.

Clinical Patient Gaming Technology Coordinator Hunter Ross manages the UF Health Streetlight Discord server, tracks patient gaming session logs and, above all, plays video games.

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.

“How you do anything is how you do everything”

When his father required open heart surgery, 9-year-old Christopher O. Hoyte, M.D., felt deeply impacted, leading him to a career in emergency medicine.

UF engineers named 2026 NAI Senior Members

Two headshots, Doctor Curtis Taylor on the right and Doctor Hamed Dalir on the left.

UF College of Engineering’s Curtis Taylor, Ph.D., and Hamed Dalir, Ph.D., have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors.

Finding a lifelong passion in pediatric cardiology

Registered Nurse Connie Nixon on the right, laughing, with a child using a toy stethoscope on a smiling doctor to the left. All three are sitting on a patient table, with the child in the middle.

Connie Nixon’s relationships with patients span decades, and her impact has reached past operating rooms and clinics — into birthdays, graduations and weddings.

From physics to farming

U F IFAS animal welfare scientist Emily Miller-Cushon crouching down and petting a calf

UF/IFAS Associate Professor Emily Miller-Cushon, Ph.D., took a path far from agriculture, into physics and math, but looped back in a way that melded her two passions: data and animal welfare.

These couples have major chemistry — Meet the marrieds from CHE.

Raise your beaker in a Valentine’s Day toast and say, “Awww.” There are sweet love stories afoot in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Out of nearly 30 faculty members, there are three married couples, and two others have spouses who work elsewhere at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

So what gives? Something in the lab water? Pheromones brewing in the beakers? Read on to find out.