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UF and IBM Team up to Solve Society’s Biggest Challenges

from UF News The University of Florida announced this week a new collaboration with tech giant IBM to launch a comprehensive skills program designed to extend UF’s vision to be an international leader in artificial intelligence, data science, fintech, and other related technologies that can help solve society’s biggest challenges....
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Peter Hirschfeld Wins 2022 John Bardeen Prize

from UF CLAS by Lauren Barnett Distinguished Professor of Physics PETER HIRSCHFELD has been named a 2022 recipient of the prestigious John Bardeen Prize, sponsored by the University of Illinois. Hirschfeld was honored for his groundbreaking studies exploring the nature and potential of superconductivity. Superconductivity, which occurs when an electrical charge can move...
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This Untapped Tool Could Help Boost Vaccination Rates

from Barrons The recent failure of workplace vaccine mandates in the Supreme Court means we have to look for fresh ideas to get the last third of Americans vaccinated. Here’s a tool no one has tried: activating the millions of Americans who are vaccinated to influence the choices of those who aren’t....
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Meeting Demand for Nurses and Health Care in Rural Areas

by UF News Welcome to From Florida, a podcast where you’ll learn how minds are connecting, great ideas are colliding and groundbreaking innovations become a reality because of the University of Florida. There is a nationwide shortage of nurses and it has been exacerbated by the pandemic, which has caused...
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UF Selected to Help Develop National AI Curriculum with Focus on Ethics

from UF News GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida joins a select group of institutions nationwide in a new National Humanities Center initiative to design college-level curriculum that explores how to develop and deploy ethical artificial intelligence technologies. With support from Google, faculty from 15 universities in the center’s “Responsible...
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USDA Grant To Enhance UF/IFAS Vanilla Research, Promote Domestic Industry

from UF/IFAS by Lourdes Mederos A tropical fruit breeder with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is a step closer to establishing a domestic vanilla industry for growers in Florida, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Alan Chambers, an assistant professor and plant geneticist at UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center (TREC) has...
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