Explore Magazine
Volume 5 Issue 1
Extracts
Research Briefs
Four Nations
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism
associate Professor John Kaplan has gathered 59 photographs from China,
Russia, Cuba and the United States into an exhibition titled Four
Nations that seeks to illustrate the common bonds these disparate
countries share.
Listen
To The Teacher
School administrators rank poor
acoustics as the most significant problem affecting the learning environment,
so a team of UF architecture and audiology professors is seeking to
identify and cure classroom noise problems.
Distilling
Diamonds
UF materials science engineers
are leading an effort to fine-tune a Russian technology for making
gem-quality diamonds that could have a major impact on the jewelry
market and lead to a new breed of electronics powered by diamond semiconductors.
Sea
Life, See Life
For more than 25 years now, biomedical
researchers at UF’s Whitney Laboratory have been studying some of
the planet’s simplest animals to unlock 700-million-year-old secrets
that explain how we smell, how we see and even how we think.
Mapping
UF’s Genetic Future
Scientists at UF’s new Genetics
Institute are delving into the genetic codes of a host of living things,
finding surprising links among vastly different species that are leading
to collaborations among faculty from a wide variety of disciplines.
Exchange
Technology Transfer
Excel
Graduate Research
Excerpts
New Books
Expressions
Fine Art