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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 19 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class, breaking previous records for the number of faculty awarded in a single year. The honor, which includes alumni such […]

Dr. Juan Gilbert’s father did not complete high school, but he fought in the Korean war and was born and raised in Pulaski, Tennessee—the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. “He was there when it happened,” Gilbert says, referring to the time when the KKK held demonstrations and violently upheld segregation in the 1950s and […]

Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Ph.D., a professor in CISE, was named a 2019 Fellow of the  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of pervasive computing, particularly in assistive environments supportive of aging and independent living. Dr. Helal is an IEEE Fellow and Finland Distinguished Professor. He was named […]