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  • Schools of choice withhold information from potential applicants who appear costly to educate, study finds
  • Meet some class of 2018 Gator grads
  • Student’s design captures holiday spirit for President’s card
  • UF researchers named National Academy of Inventors fellows
  • Economy expands despite consumer sentiment drop for fourth consecutive month
  • New traditions, 3,600 degrees and countless smiles
  • UF holds third open dialogue on diversity
  • Helping kids learn this holiday season
  • “We know we’re the problem, so we also know that we can be the solution.”
  • Meet the superfoods of the future
  • "We will get this right.”
  • Commencement in The Swamp
  • New butterfly named for pioneering 17th century entomologist
  • Creating the world to come
  • To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays
  • Education professor tells doctoral grads to be heroes
  • Researchers develop rapid, inexpensive test for Zika
  • Rock legend addresses graduates
  • Arts dean addresses graduates
  • Creating the world to come
  • How ancient Mayan shell décor led to a new look at freshwater mussels south of the border
  • Political scientist discusses early voting trends
  • Researcher: it takes energy for animals to make weapons, but it may take more to maintain them
  • Honors student awarded national space science scholarship
  • UF/IFAS Experts Predict More Food Traceability, Grocery Delivery in 2019
  • Holiday shopping insight from the experts
  • Three UF researchers are named AAAS 2018 Fellows
  • UF-IFAS-led project wins prestigious Kellogg Award
  • New from GATORBYTES: ‘Born to Learn: Innovations in Early Childhood Studies’
  • Going out on a limb: Life above the forest floor
  • Freddie Mercury’s family faith: the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism
  • Training STEM teachers to improve tomorrow’s workforce
  • Astronomers unveil growing black holes in colliding galaxies
  • 2018 Homecoming activities schedule changes due to weather
  • UF marks 60 years of desegregation
  • UF Innovate | Tech Licensing Announces Another Successful Partnership with Portfolio Company Entrinsic Health Solutions Inc.
  • Researchers find pattern in shark skin teeth
  • Microbiology student to research Antarctic microorganisms
  • UF-led consortium aims to make Alzheimer’s treatable, preventable and one day curable
  • 20 Years of the Health Hut
  • Meet some of the UF students working to feed the world
  • Consumer sentiment declines for third month in a row, but the economy is strong
  • Florida consumer sentiment drops slightly in September
  • UF TREEO provides staging area for utilities help
  • Why to consider traveling solo — and how to get started
  • Your family might be making your blood boil
  • Money in elections doesn’t mean what you think it does
  • UF launches bold initiative to tackle society’s biggest problems
  • Got your flu shot?
  • Around the clock storm coverage
  • Pop-Up Culture at UF celebrates arts in new and engaging ways
  • Feeding the future
  • Mapping the 100 trillion cells that make up your body
  • Helping the most vulnerable of Florida’s children
  • New stem cell use for brain cancer immunotherapy
  • Aging in the Arctic: What if your age was defined by your wisdom?
  • 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: a turning point in the war on cancer
  • UF scares up new class, leaving students with monsters on the mind
  • Why doesn’t the U.S. bury its power lines?
  • UF celebrates the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with ‘Frankenreads’
  • How can cities reduce gun violence? Invest in low-income neighborhoods
  • UF VP and CIO Named to EDUCAUSE Board of Directors
  • Ted Turner has Lewy body dementia, but what is it?
  • Inspiring Women Leaders
  • Vision treatment research recognized with international prize
  • How helpful are product recommendations, really?
  • How an ancient Islamic holiday became uniquely Caribbean
  • Sustainable fishing aids economies, communities, global study shows
  • Florida consumer sentiment drops in August, but high overall for the year
  • Exploring Strange New Worlds: “Star Trek” Planet Vulcan Found
  • Ace the meal, close the deal: New class covers business dining
  • Rock legend Stephen Stills, arts dean Onye Ozuzu slated as fall commencement speakers
  • UF launches plan to help reduce utility bills for low-income Alachua County residents
  • 4 charts show Venezuela’s worsening migrant crisis
  • Groundbreaking event heralds new era for UF’s Institute of Black Culture and Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures
  • Hoping for hemp
  • 6 questions you can ask a loved one to help screen for suicide risk
  • Binge drinking and blackouts: sobering truths about lost learning for college students
  • Teacher turnover is a problem – here’s how to fix it
  • Expanded UF Online partnership will provide education benefits to more than 80,000 hourly Disney employees nationwide
  • When MSNBC or Fox News airs in public spaces, how do people react?
  • Could Andrew Gillum be the next governor of Florida?
  • UF rises to No. 8 in U.S. News list of best public universities
  • Student reporters visit Puerto Rico for ‘Life After Maria’ TV special
  • DNA from shark tooth in boy’s leg used to ID species in New York bite incident
  • Nuclear reactors in hurricanes: 5 questions answered
  • UF sends #YouAreWelcomeHere message to potential international students
  • What is the Hajj?
  • Art meets science in the spider lab
  • Your voting habits may depend on when you registered to vote
  • Medieval book’s secret code remains unbroken
  • UF study: Snail kites must do more than move to thrive
  • From slag to swag: the story of Earl Tupper’s fantastic plastics
  • Museum volunteer donates nearly a million shells
  • Overcoming vaccination myths: Could addressing the facts during prenatal visits help?
  • Q&A: UF researcher discusses her first deep-sea expedition
  • Five visions for the future of shopping
  • Alan Alda living with Parkinson’s – a neurologist explains treatment advances
  • Smartphone security risk compared to “having a ghost user on your phone”
  • Student body president, engineering professor address graduates
  • Engineering professor speaks at doctoral commencement about surviving cancer and passing discoveries to new generations
  • New name, new location for the new school year at the UF Career Connections Center
  • UF Honors program associate director elected to National Collegiate Honors Council
  • UF expert for Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month Dr. Andres Pumariega
  • What is causing Florida’s algae crisis? 5 questions answered
  • Summer commencement set, changes planned for December, May
  • Program builds character and community wellness through tennis
  • Together for turtles
  • Did bats invent fireflies?
  • University of Florida fundraising tops $400 million for the third year in a row
  • Approval of first ‘RNA interference’ drug – Why the excitement?
  • Glioblastoma topples an American hero, but researchers will continue the fight
  • To be a Gator in ’68
  • 50 years of African languages at UF
  • Researchers aim to stem football injuries
  • Building a bug's life
  • Using technology to stop deadly fake pills
  • Teaming up to fight phishing
  • Rhythm nations: Experiencing a culture through its drums
  • 10 Engineering students awarded NSF graduate research fellowships
  • Physical therapy could lower need for opioids, but lack of money and time are hurdles
  • University of Florida smashes research awards record with $837.6 million in fiscal year 2018
  • Nancy E. Paton appointed UF’s vice president for strategic communications and marketing
  • Could human cancer treatments be the key to saving sea turtles from a disfiguring tumor disease?
  • 7 reasons moths are amazing
  • Florida consumer sentiment decreases in June
  • Ilaria Capua: Collaborating for a healthier future
  • How Roe v Wade changed the lives of American women
  • An anti-Bat-Signal: Moths with larger hindwings and longer tails are best at deflecting bats
  • Why the Democrats’ new ‘debt free’ college plan won’t really make college debt-free
  • Space Squid: The power of crowdfunding science
  • Six Students Named to National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  • Florida consumer sentiment rises in July
  • New migraine drug: A neurologist explains how it works
  • Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests
  • UF enlists alumnus to reach new heights in alumni engagement
  • State’s performance funding investment to help UF continue its rise in national stature
  • Hope for world's sea turtles
  • Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida announces new director
  • UF Online partners with Discover Financial Services, fully funding employees seeking select bachelor’s degrees
  • UF team helps America's symbol soar
  • Researchers identify immune profiles that place people at risk of dengue
  • University of Florida and ArtPlace America launch national initiative for arts and public health
  • Gulf coast project is a finalist for national community award
  • UF engineer among 84 scientists selected by Dept. of Energy for Early Career Research Program funding
  • University of Florida selects contemporary choreographer and researcher to lead the College of the Arts
  • Study reveals secret origins of asteroids and meteorites
  • Why we hate making financial decisions – and what to do about it
  • One and done: The sperm-storing bug that settled in Florida
  • As Venezuela’s public health system collapses, mosquito-borne viruses re-emerge
  • The 3 stages of giving: deference, arrogance and inquiry
  • Teenage depression: If a parent doesn’t get treatment for a child, is that abuse?
  • Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails
  • Human cancer therapies successfully treat tumors in sea turtles
  • Florida’s obesity rate may be higher than originally thought, new study finds
  • UF Board of Trustees welcomes new ex-officio members
  • Why Florida Democrats can’t count on the so-called ‘black vote’
  • The orgasm gap: Picking up where the sexual revolution left off
  • Finding sea level rise solutions in St. Augustine
  • Snagging card skimmers: UF, NYPD team up to stop them
  • What is doxing, and why is it so scary?
  • How Stacey Abrams’ ‘black girl magic’ turned Georgia a bit more blue
  • Making a cleaner, greener, environmentally safe sunscreen
  • Public interest communications scholar addresses doctoral commencement
  • Federal judge rules Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum
  • Rethinking commencement
  • A peek into the lives of Puerto Rican Muslims and what Ramadan means post Hurricane
  • Butterfly expert Tom Emmel has died
  • Consumer sentiment in Florida increases for the second month in a row
  • UF taps proven leader as its first chief diversity officer
  • The deadliest drug in America at center of VA nominee withdrawal: alcohol
  • Why do we hate making financial decisions?
  • UF to partner with Walmart in new education benefit for associates
  • Consumer sentiment in Florida increases for the first time since January
  • President Fuchs addresses newest Gator graduates
  • Amy Hass named UF vice president and general counsel
  • An expert explains why new guidelines were needed
  • Crowdfunding for scientists
  • Broadway icon Chita Rivera visits UF students
  • 7 things we learned about royal weddings from the UF Libraries
  • For high school baseball pitchers, extra throws on game day add up but go uncounted
  • The right-wing origins of the Jerusalem soccer team that wants to add ‘Trump’ to its name
  • Trish Ring pays it forward with $1.1 million gift for UF’s psychology department
  • HIV lies dormant in the brain, increasing the risk of dementia, but how?
  • Florida high school seniors selected to prestigious award programs at UF
  • Don’t expect professors to get fired when they say something you don’t like
  • Mark Kaplan named UF vice president for government and community relations
  • UF partners with UN Refugee Agency to explore communication strategies
  • Caribbean poems for National Poetry Month
  • Florida consumer sentiment in March slides into two-month decline
  • Watching nanomaterials form in 4D
  • New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected
  • Dania Alexandrino helps students break ground in Spanish-language media
  • Navigating UF when you're on the autism spectrum
  • Now that Russia has apparently hacked America’s grid, shoring up security is more important than ever
  • Genes and environment have equal influence in learning for rich and poor kids, study finds
  • What Greek tragedy illuminates about James Comey
  • Aneurysm strikes baseball pitcher, but why? A neurosurgeon explains the mysterious condition
  • News Integrity Initiative partnership helps newsrooms increase media trust
  • UF researchers target deadly superbug
  • UF history professor wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History
  • Behind the scenes of Venezuela’s deadly prison fire
  • For the visually impaired, a better autonomous vehicle experience
  • TEDxUF encourages students to take command of their own expectations
  • UF student earns Goldwater Scholarship
  • Star trek: Antarctica
  • UF Research Foundation names 2018 professors
  • Women in Ag: Bonnie Wells
  • UF plans to increase Disability Resource Center staff and resources in Cypress Hall
  • Leadership defined: Jon and Beverly Thompson bring earth systems to Florida and the world
  • PBS' "Sex, Lies and Butterflies" features UF research
  • UF research spending reaches record $801.4 million in 2017
  • Mori Hosseini elected Chairman of UF Board of Trustees
  • What the National School Walkout says about schools and free speech
  • Why are we so sleep deprived, and why does it matter?
  • Study describes earliest evidence of ancient Maya dog trade
  • Malcolm Gets' latest role: professor
  • How vaccination is helping to prevent another flu pandemic
  • $3.2 Million grant funds development of new malaria vaccine
  • #YouToo? When the predator is your partner
  • National Freedom of Information Coalition to relocate to UF
  • There are dozens of sea snake species in the Indian and Pacific oceans, but none in the Caribbean. Why?
  • Drought-induced changes in forest composition amplify effects of climate change on carbon storage
  • Want better sex? Try getting more sleep
  • University of Florida selects new senior director for the Career Resource Center
  • Banyan Biomarkers: Perfect storm of collaboration
  • Hidden pictures reveal the lost art of fore-edge painting
  • Meet the scientist who wants to use GoPro cameras to grow food on Mars
  • Holi ‘Festival of Colors’ takes over Flavet Field
  • UF honored for Internationalization Initiatives
  • Philanthropists honored for inspiring others during UF’s annual Academy of Golden Gators
  • UF plant biologist Pam Soltis receives SURA’s Distinguished Scientist Award
  • Test your java knowledge with our coffee anthropologist
  • Afro-Latinx panel urges students and faculty to engage in ‘ten seconds of courage’
  • New butterfly species named for Field Museum’s Emily Graslie
  • University of Florida graduate schools rank among nation’s best programs
  • Erin Jackson brings Florida heat to Olympic ice
  • UF-built instrument provides new look at supermassive black hole's magnetic field
  • The #3 most powerful computer at a U.S. public university
  • Want to bridge the gaping political divide between you and your neighbor?
  • UF reports 2017 as average year for worldwide shark attacks, deaths
  • For flu detection, just add water
  • Researchers discover method for harvesting ‘green’ sunscreen ingredient
  • Butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary tree
  • UF tops applications record
  • UF honors fastest-growing alumni-led companies during 2018 Gator100 celebration
  • University of Florida among Peace Corps’ 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges & Universities
  • Why Trump may usher in the biggest gas tax hike ever
  • Florida consumer sentiment remains high despite a decline in February
  • UF Health pediatric oncology patients pilot HealthSteps mobile platform
  • University of Florida launches nation’s first center for public interest communications
  • Art and science converge in the Harn Museum’s Asian wing
  • How Americans came to embrace meditation, and with it, Hinduism
  • An inside look at UF's 18-million-year-old fossil site
  • Human Trafficking Symposium emboldens students to take a stand
  • Building a better Groupon: Big data predicts demand for daily deals
  • UF technology commercialization efforts now called UF Innovate
  • Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
  • Why is there a norovirus outbreak at the Winter Olympics? 4 questions answered
  • Evolution of China’s flowering plants shows East-West divide between old, new lineages
  • Why treating addiction with medication should be carefully considered
  • UF team to help innovate retrofits for homes for people with disabilities
  • Neuroscientists find new avenue for treating Alzheimer’s disease
  • Inspiring Women Leaders Conference
  • Study suggests climate models may underestimate future polar warming
  • National award honors UFPD’s Chief as a ‘Champion for Change’
  • Brewing up success
  • Florida consumer sentiment soars entering 2018
  • Do all fish wiggle their tails the same?
  • UF gets $8.7 million grant to improve nutritional quality, food safety in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso
  • Our fight with fat: Why is obesity getting worse?
  • Why should you love squirrels? Here are six reasons
  • Innovation Hub and Warrington College of Business Provide Space for Women’s Collaboratory and Gator Accelerator
  • Study: Sexism a powerful predictor for some Trump voters
  • UF launches new Center for Regenerative Medicine
  • An X-factor in coastal flooding: Natural climate patterns create hot spots of rapid sea level rise
  • Kuntz, O’Keefe named to UF Board of Trustees
  • Deep brain stimulation shows promise for select Tourette patients in new UF-led worldwide registry
  • Being Winnie the Pooh made this Disney alum a better doctor
  • Noise pollution causes chronic stress in birds, with health consequences for young
  • U.S. News ranks UF Online No. 12 in the nation for online bachelor’s degree programs
  • Helping rhinos survive in the wild