Category: UF News

2025 Government Productivity Award winner announced

A team from the Department of Engineering Education and the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has been awarded a 2025 Florida Government Productivity Award for the development of Edugator.

Do CT scans increase childhood cancer risk? A UF researcher has the answer

Funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study will help medical personnel make informed decisions about using imaging on children.

UF holds its place among U.S. News top public universities

The University of Florida has ranked No. 7 among public universities in the country, marking the eighth consecutive year UF has placed among the nation’s top 10 public institutions, according to the 2026 U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings released earlier this week.

NYT global economics correspondent to speak at UF

Peter Goodman, UF’s Business Journalist in Residence, will give a talk titled “How the World Ran Out of Everything” today at 5 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora.

UF Health to house mathematical BioModels database

BioModels, an open-access database used by scientific researchers, is crossing the pond for a new home at the University of Florida.

Disease experts team up with Florida Museum to forecast West Nile virus

A new study demonstrates how UF researchers can reliably predict elevated West Nile virus activity in chickens up to six months before it occurs.

Tracking the fiery path of particles: UF leads combustion research

Armed with a $11 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, researchers from UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, Purdue University and Georgia Tech are examining the physics of how particles and droplets burn as a group, a study that may lead to more efficient engines, better combustion in power plants and improved safety measures.