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UF Warrington Management Department Maintains No. 1 Productivity per Faculty Ranking for Fourth…
For four consecutive years, the 13 tenure-track faculty members of the Department of Management at the University of Florida Warrington College of Business have affirmed their authority as top-tier researchers.
As in 2020, 2021 and 2022,…
University of Florida: 12 UF Faculty Honored as Lifetime Fellows by American Association for the…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 12 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class.…
University of Florida Scientist Selected to Fly on Blue Origin Suborbital Mission
University of Florida Distinguished Professor Rob Ferl will be the first NASA-funded academic researcher to conduct an experiment as part of a commercial space crew on an upcoming mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
Ferl,…
University of Florida: Over 10,500 Graduates to Celebrate UF’s Spring 2024 Commencement
One company with origins tracing back to a University of Florida laboratory is working to create a future where drug therapies come with fewer side effects, water bottles don’t have toxic nanoplastics or additives and vehicles can be more…
Cornell University Recognizes Robinson-Appel Award Recipients for Serving Diverse Local Communities
Three Cornell undergraduates are recipients of this year’s Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards to honor their significant involvement in community engagement. Ariela Asllani ’26, David Ni’ 24 and Melody Welles ’27 will each receive a $2,500…
Cornell University’s Johnson Museum Explores Migration and Its Impact in New Exhibit
At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her…
Cornell University’s Brooks School Tech Policy Institute Explores Intersection of National…
We live in an era in which rapid technological change shifts the global security balance in real time. No one knows that better than Sarah Kreps, director of the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI), and John L. Wetherill…
Study Reveals Enjoying Nature Decreases Inflammation Levels
Plenty of studies link exposure to the natural world and improved mental and physical health, but a new Cornell study connects enjoyment of nature to a specific biological process – inflammation.
Led by Anthony Ong, professor in the…
People, Not Design Features, Drive Social Interactions for Robots, Finds Cornell University Study
It takes a village to nurture social robots.
Researchers who develop social robots – ones that people interact with – focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, like human-to-human interactions, the…
Research Tracks Protein’s Transient Shape Changes
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a powerful new technique to generate “movies” of changing protein structures at speeds of up to 50 frames per second.
Senior author Simon Scheuring, the Distinguished Professor of…