Other universities told Xander Boggs he’d have to choose between music and medical school. The University of Florida encouraged him...
Oşubi Craig playes drums on stage at a performance with fellow drummers.
He didn’t plan to return to his hometown, but when engineer, musician and administrator Oṣubi Craig saw the opportunity to...
old photograph, men in war
History professors collect photographs of the Civil War to understand its history
Tourism iconography feature image
Florida’s economy — so reliant on tourism — has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Tens of thousands of workers at theme parks,...
A collection of eggs from seabirds, shorebirds, forest and grassland birds – even a giant flightless bird – arranged in separate boxes. The boxes are placed in a grid pattern on a table.
The man who founded the Florida Museum of Natural History more than 100 years ago had a clear purpose: to...
Creativing Writing Graduate
The University of Florida’s creative writing program nurtures and pushes its graduate students
Hero image for Explore Summer '21 feature story, "All-Seeing Algorithms"
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.
bilingualism
Linguistics team studies the benefits of speaking multiple languages