While most of us were spending our quarantine time picking up new hobbies or exploring the hidden depths of Netflix, Professor Matthew Hale was writing proposals that would eventually earn him both a Young Investigator Program (YIP) award and a… Read More
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S. A. E. Miller Receives the DARPA Young Faculty Award
Assistant Professor Steven A. E. Miller, Ph.D. received the 2021 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for “Analytical Prediction of Near-Field Hypersonic Aerodynamics.” The research will be conducted within the Theoretical Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence group, which… Read More
Take Off in a Flying Car With UF Engineers and Alumni
As successful serial entrepreneurs, Adam Goldstein (UF BSBA ’01) and Brett Adcock (UF BSBA ’08) are always looking for the next big thing to bring to market. EVTOLs, short for electric vertical take-off-and-landing vehicles, had a compelling appeal, but there… Read More
A River Runs Under It
Understanding how fresh-water rivers flow beneath oceans “Rivers are sacred to humans because they deliver sediments and fresh soil to grow our food,” says Dr. S. “Bala” Balachandar, William F. Powers Professor and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical… Read More
Intelligent Energy Resiliency Control System
A team of researchers at the University of Florida has developed a system powered by solar energy that uses artificial intelligence to ultimately decrease the cost of keeping essential home appliances or devices running through a power outage. Read More
UF Engineers Develop New Membrane that Improves Blood Dialysis
Researchers from the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering have developed a new hemodialysis membrane made of graphene oxide (GO), a single-atomic layered material, which has the promise of revolutionizing treatments for… Read More
UF Awarded NASA Contract to Build Space Exploration Device
NASA has awarded the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Charge Management Device (CMD) contract to the University of Florida, Gainesville. Read More