Category: UF News

Meet Earl Grady, UF ESSIE’s unsung hero

In the cavernous metal building that houses the Powell Family Structures & Materials Lab, Earl Grady is, in his own words, building dreams. As the lab’s machine shop manager on the University of Florida’s East Campus, Grady quietly supports UF’s research mission with grit, sweat and hard-won experience.

UF researchers go weightless to explore future medicines

Graduate student Deep Thakkar, Professor Siobhan Malany and Assistant Professor Nils Averesch stand outside the plane used for the September eleventh parabolic flight.

UF researchers recently boarded parabolic flights over Zurich, Switzerland, taking experiments 30,000 feet into the air to study how human cells respond to microgravity.

Lisa Hensley named director of UF Emerging Pathogens Institute

Internationally recognized infectious disease scientist Lisa E. Hensley, Ph.D., has been named director of the UF Emerging Pathogens Institute.

New grant boosts research aimed at ‘locking’ HIV

A promising strategy to create a “functional cure” for HIV infection by locking the virus in its dormant “off” state has garnered a $3.4 million NIH grant.

Florida Museum reopens Nov. 23

Following a large-scale construction project, the Florida Museum of Natural History is set to reopen the Ken and Linda McGurn Exhibition Hall to the public on Nov. 23.

UFPD expands mental health response on campus

A U F P D responder and co-responder speaking with an individual on campus.

The UFPD co-responder program pairs officers with mental health clinicians who jointly respond to calls that may involve a behavioral health component.

UF researchers advance personalized epilepsy surgery

Doctor Babjani sitting in the MEG lab looking at computer screen

In a new NIH-funded project, researchers combine various techniques to predict how different surgical approaches could affect a patient’s language function.

The College of Journalism and (Interstellar) Communications

A black and white photo of the college's newly completed Flanagan Wing in the Eighty's

Thirty-eight years ago, the College of Journalism and Communications shot a radio signal into space, and it’s possible we could hear back this year.

Does a diagnosis change what you put in your grocery cart?

A person reaching for produce at a grocery store

When someone is diagnosed with a chronic illness such as diabetes or heart disease, one of the recommendations is often to change what they eat.

Breakthroughs begin here

Weizhou Zhang, Ph.D., recently led a multidisciplinary team of researchers to create a drug that effectively kills aggressive acute myeloid leukemia cells.