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These smart devices emerged when University of Florida students and professors took their ingenuity in the Internet of Things and applied it to COVID solutions.
U.S. News & World Report today named the University of Florida the No. 6 public university in the country, continuing the university’s upward trajectory and placing it on the cusp of reaching its top-five goal.
UF researchers Chang-Yu Wu, an engineer, and John Lednicky, a virologist, teamed up a decade ago to solve long-standing challenges in how air samples are collected and tested for viruses. Few people grasped the public health value of their work until a novel respiratory virus gave rise to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two recently released national rankings recognized UF as continuing its momentum among the best in the country for value and quality.
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This fall’s event looks different, but still offers UF students in-person and virtual meetings with hundreds of employers from around the country.
Consumer sentiment among Floridians dipped for a consecutive month in August to 78.4, dropping 2.1 points from a revised figure of 80.5 in July.
Of the 56,000-plus students who attend the University of Florida, only one of them balances the grueling requirements of being Miss Gainesville 2020 and a student at a Top-10 public university. Julianna Chappell is a reigning pageant queen and is also a junior at the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management.
As their inboxes filled up with replies to an accidental mass email, University of Florida students Elizabeth Gerace and Jessica Bailes got an idea: Turn the situation into a song.
After identifying the concerns of sending thousands to the polls during a pandemic, Juan Gilbert started working on an easy-to-use system that allows poll workers to hand out tickets to voters waiting in line.
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- The countries set to be hardest hit by Covid-19's impact on tourism CNN
- 14 famous companies that aren’t profitable Yahoo! Finance
- 'Mixed messages from Day One': Rising cases prove summer is no barrier to COVID-19 USA Today
- What if ‘herd immunity’ is closer than scientists thought? The New York Times
- USPS badly needs an overhaul, but not smack in the middle of the Trump-Biden campaign USA Today
- Could FedEx ease the US Postal Service's mail voting challenge? Shipping costs a hurdle The Tennessean
- Harris 'electrifies' West Indian voters — and gives Biden a new edge in Florida Politico
- Why is the US Postal Service's role in November's election under scrutiny? The Guardian
- Postal Service warns 46 states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots The Washington Post
- Voting by mail is popular in Florida, despite President Trump's criticisms USA Today
- The virus is killing young Floridians. Race is a big factor. The New York Times
- Where Americans can vote by mail in the 2020 elections The New York Times
- Coronavirus can travel much farther than 6 feet in certain indoor spaces, study finds Fox News
- Quarantines and closures as schools reopen across the U.S. NBC News
- Accuracy of U.S. coronavirus data thrown into question as decline in testing skews drop in new cases CNBC