05 Oct 2024 |
How UF is preparing students for a new world of workMonday May 22, 2023With artificial intelligence and other technological innovations poised to create major workforce disruptions, today’s college students are likely to change jobs many times over the course of their careers, experts project.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/05/new-world-of-work/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
The University of Florida, Concept Companies, and Trimark Properties join forces to make Gainesville’s Innovation District a major economic hubThursday December 7, 2023The UF Board of Trustees was briefed today on a new plan to join Concept Companies and Trimark Properties in developing 50 acres east of campus into a world-class destination for Fortune 500 research companies and creating a talent pipeline for UF students seeking high-paying jobs.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/12/innovation-district/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF ranked No. 1 nationally in innovation impactTuesday June 23, 2020The University of Florida is the most productive large university in the country at leveraging its research funding into new companies, new jobs and new ideas, according to a report released last week by the George W. Bush Institute and the Opus Faveo Innovation Development consulting firm.
http://news.ufl.edu/2020/06/uf-ranked-no-1-nationally-in-innovation-impact/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF Research Helps Drive Florida's Tech EconomyTuesday February 9, 2021Despite the pandemic, University of Florida researchers conducted record amounts of research in 2020 and companies born of UF research continued to bring billions of dollars and thousands of jobs into the state.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/02/economic-impact-/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Why this UF professor says everyone needs to understand AIWednesday October 6, 2021Diego Alvarado believes it’s vital that society understands the role artificial intelligence plays in everything we do. It’s not because he envisions AI replacing humans in jobs. It’s because he, like many in his field, believes that workers will have to work in unison with AI in their jobs of the future.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/10/uf-professor-says-everyone-needs-to-understand-ai/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
What Florida researchers learned about how new fathers respond to "Dadvertising"
Wednesday June 15, 2022Stay-at-home dads are more common than ever before. Because of fathers’ changing roles in the household, advertisers are shifting how they market their products to this target audience. Does it work?
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/06/dadvertisements/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
How UF is preparing students for a new world of workMonday May 22, 2023With artificial intelligence and other technological innovations poised to create major workforce disruptions, today’s college students are likely to change jobs many times over the course of their careers, experts project.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/05/new-world-of-work/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Medi-Gators program provides students with shadowing opportunities for health careersWednesday May 1, 2024Medi-Gators is a shadowing program that aims to provide mentorship to its members. While navigating the career options available in health care can be challenging, the program offers exposure and experiences that shed light on some of these paths.
http://news.ufl.edu/2024/04/medigators/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
The future of workMonday November 28, 2022Where, when and how we work may never return to pre-pandemic norms. AI and demographic shifts will reshape our careers. And we’ll need to tend to ourselves and each other to ward off burnout and grow as workers and leaders. That’s what we heard when we asked for advice and predictions from UF management faculty.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/01/future-of-work/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
University of Florida business students make waves in summer internshipsThursday July 18, 2024Real-world experience prepares Warrington students for future careers
http://news.ufl.edu/2024/07/business-student-internships/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
How this pilot program at UF helped fast track these students into the workplaceFriday April 29, 2022This pilot culinary arts program at UF's Office of Professional and Workforce Development aims to re-skill students through a nontraditional format and quickly get them back to work in higher paying jobs.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/04/culinary-arts-program-/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
How UF is preparing students for a new world of workMonday May 22, 2023With artificial intelligence and other technological innovations poised to create major workforce disruptions, today’s college students are likely to change jobs many times over the course of their careers, experts project.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/05/new-world-of-work/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Improving your work-life balance can make you a more effective leader at workMonday April 17, 2023Silencing your notifications and ignoring your email at the end of the workday could make you a better leader at your job, according to new research.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/04/work-life-balance/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Navigate AI in hiring to land your dream jobWednesday August 10, 2022Career coaches share how to get past AI-driven ATS resume readers and how to prepare for AI interviews.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/08/ai-resumes-and-interviews/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
The University of Florida, Concept Companies, and Trimark Properties join forces to make Gainesville’s Innovation District a major economic hubThursday December 7, 2023The UF Board of Trustees was briefed today on a new plan to join Concept Companies and Trimark Properties in developing 50 acres east of campus into a world-class destination for Fortune 500 research companies and creating a talent pipeline for UF students seeking high-paying jobs.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/12/innovation-district/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
To hire the right job candidate, humans and machines should clear up this simple miscommunicationWednesday June 5, 2024Hiring teams need to teach machine learning algorithms how hiring works to find the best candidates.
http://news.ufl.edu/2024/06/ai-hiring/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF ranked No. 1 nationally in innovation impactTuesday June 23, 2020The University of Florida is the most productive large university in the country at leveraging its research funding into new companies, new jobs and new ideas, according to a report released last week by the George W. Bush Institute and the Opus Faveo Innovation Development consulting firm.
http://news.ufl.edu/2020/06/uf-ranked-no-1-nationally-in-innovation-impact/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF Research Helps Drive Florida's Tech EconomyTuesday February 9, 2021Despite the pandemic, University of Florida researchers conducted record amounts of research in 2020 and companies born of UF research continued to bring billions of dollars and thousands of jobs into the state.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/02/economic-impact-/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF to offer apprenticeship program that seeks to expand workforce education Thursday April 6, 2023The program is designed to provide the education and job training needed to be a successful community health worker, while preparing apprentices to become a certified community health worker in Florida.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/04/registered-apprenticeship-provider-/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Why this UF professor says everyone needs to understand AIWednesday October 6, 2021Diego Alvarado believes it’s vital that society understands the role artificial intelligence plays in everything we do. It’s not because he envisions AI replacing humans in jobs. It’s because he, like many in his field, believes that workers will have to work in unison with AI in their jobs of the future.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/10/uf-professor-says-everyone-needs-to-understand-ai/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Celebrating Women's History Month: How a UF alumna turned faculty is making a differenceThursday March 2, 2023For Assistant Professor Jeremy Waisome, Ph.D., mentorship helped her pull through her graduate school journey.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/03/jeremy-waisome/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Studying glaciers . . . from FloridaTuesday January 25, 2022Mickey MacKie, an assistant professor of geological sciences and a glaciologist, joined UF this summer. She has set up the Gator Glaciology Lab, where she and a team of undergraduate students are using machine learning tools to study conditions under glaciers to better understand movement and melting, which has implications for sea level rise.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/01/from-florida-episode-4/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF Wildlife Ecology and Conservation professor named Sloan Foundation FellowTuesday February 16, 2021Brett Scheffers, an assistant professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at UF, has received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Earth System Science, a recognition given to the best early career scientists viewed by their peers as rising stars.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/02/uf-professor-named-sloan-foundation-fellow-/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
What Florida researchers learned about how new fathers respond to "Dadvertising"
Wednesday June 15, 2022Stay-at-home dads are more common than ever before. Because of fathers’ changing roles in the household, advertisers are shifting how they market their products to this target audience. Does it work?
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/06/dadvertisements/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Graduate Highlight: Two first-generation college graduates look to the futureFriday May 5, 2023More than 10,500 students are graduating from the University of Florida this spring. Among these graduates are two Machen Florida Opportunity Scholarship recipients who have big plans following graduation.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/05/mfos-graduates/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
How UF makes studying abroad more inclusive Friday October 13, 2023UF students now have an opportunity to study abroad in London as part of a special program that teaches about accommodations for people with disabilities — and is itself disability friendly.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/10/london-study-abroad/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
New partnership allows historically Black university students a pathway to earn UF nursing degreeThursday October 13, 2022Bachelor of Science in Nursing students admitted to the UF College of Nursing as a result of the partnership with Edward Waters University will have the opportunity to earn a degree from the state’s top-ranked program.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/10/edward-waters-university-nursing-program/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF celebrates 50th anniversary of the Pell Grant programThursday June 23, 2022Fifty years after the inception of Pell Grants, the program continues to give outstanding students the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Here are just four of UF’s extraordinary Pell Grant recipients.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/06/pell-grant/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF Quest redefines the student learning experience Friday February 28, 2020The University of Florida's new education program provides students the opportunity to take innovative courses that from the best UF faculty in their very first year.
http://news.ufl.edu/2020/02/quest/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
A Rhodes scholar with a passion for justiceTuesday March 1, 2022Aimee Clesi's passion for justice fueled her focus on wrongful conviction. It also led to her selection as the University of Florida’s most recent Rhodes scholar. Aimee talks more about her plans to study at Oxford University and joins UF external scholarship and fellowship coordinator Kelly Medley in offering advice for other students pursuing scholarship opportunities.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/03/from-florida-episode-9/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Career Showcase to bring more than 130 employers to UF virtually and in personFriday February 5, 2021The University of Florida kicks off its bi-annual Career Showcase event next week, providing students ways to explore internships, part-time, full-time and Co-Op opportunities.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/02/uf-career-fair-to-bring-more-than-130-employers/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Does medical marijuana work? Florida consortium seeks answersTuesday April 5, 2022A consortium of nine universities in Florida, led by two professors at the University of Florida, is in the early stages of investigating medical marijuana. In this episode, Professor Almut Winterstein describes the consortium, its three major efforts and the opportunities and challenges in understanding how marijuana works as a medical treatment.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/04/from-florida-episode-14/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Environmental human DNA offers new opportunities for public goodThursday August 10, 2023The era of human environmental DNA, or eDNA, has arrived.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/08/environmental-dna-opportunities/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Get into the spirit of service during inauguration weekFriday October 27, 2023For Gators, service has always been paramount. And that generous spirit is becoming contagious, as the UF community preps to participate in several service opportunities during presidential inauguration week.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/10/gator-service/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Grant helps UF researchers expand income opportunities for small-scale farmers in AfricaMonday February 7, 2022Work is underway after the University of Florida received a recent grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its research on livestock systems in Africa. The $1.3 million grant expands the Innovation Lab’s research engagement to Nigeria in addition to its 8 previous target countries.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/02/expanding-income-opportunities-in-nigeria-/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
How UF helps military veterans succeed as they pursue an educationTuesday November 9, 2021Thanks to the GI Bill, military veterans are able to pursue an education at the University of Florida. In this episode of From Florida, Roselind Brown of the Collegiate Veterans Success Center highlights UF’s history of working with veterans, while Savanna Turner, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard, talks about the opportunities and challenges veterans face in college.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/11/from-florida-episode-9/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Human DNA is everywhere. That’s a boon for science – and an ethical quagmire. Monday May 15, 2023Easily sequenced DNA collected from the environment provides both opportunities and challenges for scientists.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/05/human-dna-everywhere-ethics/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Medi-Gators program provides students with shadowing opportunities for health careersWednesday May 1, 2024Medi-Gators is a shadowing program that aims to provide mentorship to its members. While navigating the career options available in health care can be challenging, the program offers exposure and experiences that shed light on some of these paths.
http://news.ufl.edu/2024/04/medigators/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
National Science Foundation director visits UFThursday June 2, 2022The director of the NSF, one of the country’s largest and most impactful federal research agencies, visited UF last week to discuss opportunities for university researchers as well as the agency’s priorities and vision.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/06/nsf-director/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
New funding will foster opportunities to showcase UF's premier arts programThursday November 16, 2023Two projects led by the College of the Arts received awards totaling just over $1 million in the latest round of strategic funding projects from the University of Florida President’s Office.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/11/college-of-the-arts-strategic-funding/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
SEC Consortium hosts AI Across Curriculum conferenceTuesday April 5, 2022In its latest step to expand artificial intelligence education, the Southeastern Conference AI Consortium will host a conference this Friday to discuss the impact of AI across academic fields as well as potential opportunities for collaboration.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/04/sec-ai/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Training participation key to retaining older workers, research findsWednesday February 15, 2023Employers can avoid worker shortages and hold on to knowledge reservoirs by engaging retirement-age workers with opportunities to learn and develop their skills.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/02/keeping-retirement-age-workers/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
U.S. News & World Report names University of Florida No. 1 in the country for online bachelor’s degreesTuesday January 25, 2022UF Online, the University of Florida’s online bachelor’s degree program, is No. 1 in the nation, according to the latest rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report, recognizing UF’s excellence in delivering world-class educational opportunities across platforms.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/01/uf-named-no-1-for-online-bachelors-degrees/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF graduate is a born leader and an advocate for childrenMonday April 29, 2024Growing up, Filomena Selvanik learned a lot about empathy and gratitude – often relying on reduced-price school lunches and scholarship opportunities to succeed. Now she is paying her good fortune forward, pursuing a career in pediatric medicine after she graduates from UF on May 4. She wants to spend her life helping children, and she has already started.
http://news.ufl.edu/2024/04/spring-2024-graduate-highlight-/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF plant experiment flies on Virgin Galactic spaceshipTuesday July 13, 2021The UF project, funded by NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, was the only science experiment on the mission, meant to study the impact the transition to and from zero gravity has on gene expression in cells, and, more broadly, to develop protocols for “human-tended” suborbital flights.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/07/uf-plant-experiment-virgin-galactic/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
UF's Go Greater campaign creates 4.6 billion+ opportunitiesThursday January 19, 2023UF’s record-setting Go Greater campaign topped $4.6 billion when it concluded on Dec. 31, 2022, making it one of the most successful campaigns in all of academia, the university announced this week.
http://news.ufl.edu/2023/01/go-greater/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
World Cup could usher in lasting business opportunities for QatarMonday November 14, 2022A UF professor examines how hosting the World Cup can create a legacy for business development in Qatar and the entire Persian Gulf region.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/11/world-cup-story/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
AI micro-credential helps working professionals boost career optionsFriday July 15, 2022Earning a micro-credential helps fill knowledge gaps, especially for those in the workforce who have limited time and cannot commit to a semester or longer of learning.
http://news.ufl.edu/2022/07/ai-micro-credential/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Career Showcase opens for businessMonday September 21, 2020This fall’s event looks different, but still offers UF students in-person and virtual meetings with hundreds of employers from around the country.
http://news.ufl.edu/2020/09/career-showcase/ |
05 Oct 2024 |
Career Showcase to bring more than 130 employers to UF virtually and in personFriday February 5, 2021The University of Florida kicks off its bi-annual Career Showcase event next week, providing students ways to explore internships, part-time, full-time and Co-Op opportunities.
http://news.ufl.edu/2021/02/uf-career-fair-to-bring-more-than-130-employers/ |