The University of Florida’s creative writing program nurtures and pushes its graduate students
“The Martian” is giving away a secret: science is really, really cool.
Preserving the Florida citrus label collection
When University of Florida historian Samuel Proctor and his team of volunteers fanned out across the southeastern United States in...
UF seeks to create a more inclusive environment for women in STEM
He didn’t plan to return to his hometown, but when engineer, musician and administrator Oṣubi Craig saw the opportunity to...
In January, the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute hosted “Black Voices in Research,” an online storytelling event featuring five Black members of the UF biomedical research community.
Art and science converge in the Harn Museum’s Asian wing
Florida’s economy — so reliant on tourism — has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Tens of thousands of workers at theme parks,...
Artificial intelligence and computer science researchers say getting machines to do the right thing has turned out to be relatively easy. We program Roombas to vacuum our homes, but don’t expect them to brew our coffee. We program robotic arms to sort parts in factories, but not to decide which colors to paint cars. We program doorbells to tell us who is at the door, but not to let them in. Most of our machines do one thing and do it well, usually in error-free fashion. They get the task right.
Mining museums for new knowledge
History professors collect photographs of the Civil War to understand its history