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Expanding Pathways For Black Engineers

From left: Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., ESSIE, and Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Ph.D., EED

As the demand grows for a diverse pool of future researchers, faculty and Ph.D.-level hires to populate the exploding technological workforce, the dynamics that affect the recruitment and retention of Black doctoral engineering students come under necessary scrutiny. Black students… Read More

University of Florida partners with SAS to tackle water quality challenges with analytics

Charlotte Harbor water quality analytics pilot project expands    The University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions, or CCS, and the SAS Institute, a global leader in data analytics software, are joining forces to study the factors that influence water quality… Read More

Researchers show how forested areas affect water resources in Florida

David Kaplan, Ph.D., associate professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment co-authored a new study to show that three factors can accurately predict water yield in forests: climate aridity, a combination of annual rainfall and dryness; hydrogeology,… Read More

Land-building wetland plants, champions of CO2 capture, can help counterbalance the effects of climate change

Peat bogs, salt marshes, mangrove forests and seagrass meadows cover only 1 percent of the Earth’s total surface but sequester more than 20 percent of all the CO2 absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. This unique property arises because plants build these… Read More