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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida is the largest college on campus, with more than 700 faculty members responsible for teaching the majority of the university’s core curriculum to at least 32,000 students each year.

Our College encompasses three main areas of research: the natural and physical sciences, the humanities, and the social and behavioral sciences. Each of our departments and units features ongoing faculty research and offers opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to conduct their own research and/or work closely with faculty researchers.

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CLAS Research News

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Financial stress bleeds into our relationships. But partners who provide emotional support can help.

UF researchers find a partner who provides emotional support can reduce how much stress spills over from financial worries.

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Psychology researcher receives grant to study the effects of AI on human decision making

With the help of the grant and UF’s HiPerGator, the team will work to develop AI agents that combine visual decision-making, metacognitive monitoring and linguistic capabilities to facilitate interaction with human participants as the study progresses.

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Five CLAS Faculty earn prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

UF researchers solve real-world problems in coastal resilience, climate hazards, urban tree management, machine learning and plastic waste.

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Study reveals human impact on global patterns of emerging infectious diseases

Medical researcher Sadie Evans co-led largest comparative study on emerging infectious diseases ever.

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UF chemist receives NIH MIRA award to speed RNA imaging in 3D tissue

Fan Hong has received $2.1 million to develop faster technology for imaging thousands of RNA molecules inside tissue.

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How high scores in an online brain teaser made mathematicians lie for three years

UF mathematician Vincent Vatter knew the brain teaser Digit Party displayed impossible “perfect” scores on some daily puzzles but could not figure out how to fix it until now.

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UF physicists part of effort toward first-ever detection of dark matter

The SuperCDMS experiment is ready to take data with the cylindrical aluminum radon barrier installed around the shielded cryogenic SNOBOX containing the detectors.

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Cosmic river of gas may have tilted a young planet

UF astronomers offer new evidence to explain why some planetary systems are misaligned.