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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.
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.
UF researchers who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves observed a new type of black hole that challenges prior understanding of how the mysterious cosmic objects are formed across the universe.
A University of Florida team applies quantitative methods to model how far virus-laden aerosols travel through the air.
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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UF will house the fastest AI supercomputer in higher education
A recent study in PNAS found that sea level rise — combined with the activities of a native marsh crab — are causing salt marshes across the U.S. South Atlantic Coast to rapidly fracture and reorganize.
A UF/EPI professor helped develop a model that estimates slightly more than half of COVID-19 transmission is due to people with no symptoms.
How Whitney Lab workers protected their animals and each other during COVID-19.
A trio of interdisciplinary UF researchers are searching for genes that either hasten or thwart the growth of SARS-CoV-2 virus inside a human host. Their results may contribute to the search for a COVID-19 drug or therapeutic arsenal.
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For the third time, the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) has awarded its highest honor – the Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year award – to UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech.
Findings from a first-ever national survey of tick management methods reveal the most significant roadblocks to creating a uniform, national tick strategy.