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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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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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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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Cosmic river of gas may have tilted a young planet

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

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UF political science students thrive through undergraduate research

Undergraduate research opportunities at UF are helping political science students kick-start their careers before graduation.

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New study reveals potential atmosphere on rocky planet of nearby star

The Magellan Clay telescope showed proof of helium escaping from a planet originally discovered by UF Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann, Ph.D., pointing to the potential of an atmosphere.

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UF doctoral student studies sea turtle feeding during nesting season

Ariadna Arnau is working to understand a “mixed strategy” – where turtles supplement stored energy by feeding while nesting.

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Young frogs “play it safe” when disease strikes, UF researchers find

The findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, reveal how early-life decisions about energy use shape survival, development and population health.