ADMISSION TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL

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1 AISSION TO THE GRAUATE SCHOOL ACAEIC YEAR

2 The reputation of an institution is, in large part, easured by the excellence of its graduate students. The University of Florida s graduate students help to push the boundaries of research, develop the technologies of the future, iprove the health of our citizenry, reshape our social and econoic culture, expand scholarship and create beauty in any fors. r. Henry T. Frierson Associate Vice President and ean of the Graduate School University of Florida

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4 ileage fro Gainesville Jacksonville 70 iles Orlando 115 iles Tapa 130 iles Tallahassee 150 iles Atlanta 330 iles iai 335 iles Gainesville-at-a-Glance Gainesville Population: 124,391 (2013) ild winters, war suers, Average of 2,800 hours of sunshine annually Beaches on the Gulf of exico and Atlantic Ocean just 90 inutes away No personal state incoe tax; 6% sales tax Choices of ultiple public and private secondary schools Newspapers The Gainesville Sun, The Independent Florida Alligator, Gainesville ranks 4: Sparefoot.co s list of Aerica s Fastest Growing College Towns, Aug : sall etros in The AIER College estinations Index, Nov : ilken Institute s Best Cities for Successful Aging, Aug : NerdWallet.co s list of 10 Cities with the Fastest Growing Incoes in Aerica, Oct : Livability.co s Top 100 Best Places to Live, Oct Featured on SafeWise.co s list of Four Cities Taking Sall Steps to ake Big Changes in the Environent, Aug Recognized on Forbes list of 25 Best Places to Retire in 2013, Feb Noted in Retireent Living: College Towns Lure Booers, Jan Transportation Four airlines serve the Gainesville Regional Airport: Aerican Airlines/Aerican Eagle, elta, United/Silver Airways and US Airways International airports in Jacksonville, Orlando and Tapa are within a two-hour drive. 4

5 Tallahassee Jacksonville UF-at-a-Glance GAINESVILLE graduateschool.ufl.edu UF Rising to National Preeinence Florida s leading university, opened its doors in 1906 Tapa A ajor, public, coprehensive, land-grant, research university 16 colleges offering ore than 250 graduate degree progras Aong AAU public universities, UF ranked first in aster s degrees and second in bachelor s degrees awarded to Hispanic students in UF has nearly 4,000 faculty ebers with distinguished records in teaching, research and service, including 37 Einent Scholar chairs and 42 faculty elections to the National Acadey of Sciences, Engineering, the Institute of edicine, or the Aerican Acadey of Arts and Sciences. Awards include a Fields edal, two Pulitzer Prizes, NASA s top award for research, and Sithsonian Institution s conservation award. Orlando iai Two childcare facilities operate on capus and accept children of full-tie graduate students. Contact Baby Gator Child evelopent and Research Center at (352) and Kinder Care at (352)

6 Graduate Highlight Clues fro ancient sharks Graduate students play a pivotal role in excavating and interpreting the fossils fro the Panaa Canal as part of a grant called PIRE, Partnerships in International Research and Education. eep in the Culabra, a geologic foration that dates back about 20 illion years to when oceans covered Panaa, doctoral student Catalina Piiento discovered evidence that ancient sharks like the 60-foot egalodon used nurseries for their young. Piiento has becoe the world expert on the ancient, giant shark, and her discoveries have contributed to the understanding of long-ago arine life. Although biologists Rankings UF is consistently ranked aong the nation s top universities: 1: Washington onthly s list of national universities that offer the best bang for the buck (2013.) 3: Kiplinger s Best Values in Public Colleges (2013); 3: Fiske Guide to Colleges list of Best Buys Aong Publics (2014); 14: U.S. News & World Report Top Public Universities (August 2013); 15: Forbes list of best public universities (2013); Student Resources ISIS, an online Integrated Student Inforation Syste, used to check adission status, to register, and to review transcripts and financial records Orientations Fall and Spring for new graduate students Graduate Student Research Foru Workshops for teaching assistants (TAs) Graduate & student organizations, Graduate Student Council, Graduate Student Advisory Council, Graduate Assistants United, Career Resource Center provides career planning and eployent assistance, Counseling and Wellness Center offers free, confidential help counseling.ufl.edu/cwc 6

7 knew odern sharks use shallow-water nurseries to protect their babies, fossils unearthed by Piiento provided the first evidence that egalodons used nurseries. The study provides evidence of egalodon behavior in the fossil record, says Piiento. Behavior doesn t fossilize, but we were able to interpret ancient protection strategies used by extinct sharks based on the fossil record. Facilities Aong UF s ore than 100 interdisciplinary research and education centers, bureaus and institutes are the UF Shands Cancer Center, Genetics Institute, Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology, the cknight Brain Institute, Water Institute, the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, the Whitney Laboratory for arine Bioedical Research and Biotechnology, the Florida useu of Natural History, the atabase Systes Research and evelopent Center, and the Institute for Future Space Transport. The 2,000-acre central capus includes ore than 900 buildings, 170 of which are classroos and labs. Libraries coprise sites capus wide and hold ore than 4.2 illion volues. The Curtis. Phillips Center for the Perforing Arts seats 2,000. The Florida useu of Natural History and the Harn useu of Art are centers for exhibitions, lectures, fils and discussions. The cguire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity houses the world s second-largest butterfly and oth collection and a screened vivariu with hundreds of free-flying butterflies. J. Wayne Reitz Union and two student recreation and fitness centers serve the needs of thousands of students daily. Ben Hill Griffin Stadiu at Florida Field seats 88,548. Stephen C. O Connell Center, hoe to Gator basketball, gynastics, swiing/diving and volleyball, seats 12,000. 7

8 Electronic Theses and issertations (ETs) Candidates for the aster s degree with thesis and for the Ed and Ph degrees are required to subit their final theses and dissertations electronically. ore inforation is available at OR fro the Graduate School Editorial Office. Coputer Requireent Access to and on-going use of a coputer is required for all students to coplete their degree progras successfully. The University of Florida expects each student entering the junior year, as well as each student new to the university, to acquire coputer hardware and software appropriate to his or her degree progra. Copetency in the basic use of a coputer is a requireent for graduation. Class assignents ay require use of a coputer, acadeic advising and registration can be done by coputer, and official university correspondence is often sent via e-ail. Website: While the university offers liited access to coputers through its coputer labs, ost students will be expected to purchase or lease a coputer that is capable of dial-up or network connection to the Internet, graphical access to the World Wide Web, and productivity functions such as word processing and spreadsheet calculation. Costs of eeting this requireent will be included in financial aid considerations. Visit the following website for ore inforation: dell.techhub.ufl.edu/coputer_requireent.htl OR training.helpdesk.ufl.edu 8

9 Housing Graduate and Undergraduate Students with Failies Apartent accoodations on the University capus are available for students with failies. Applicants ust have applied to the University and have a UF I nuber and are urged to apply as early as possible because of the deand for housing. See Single Graduate Students are housed in graduate and faily housing villages or in the Keys Residential Coplex (available to graduate and upperdivision students). To be considered for assignent to the Keys Residential Coplex, you need to coplete a single-student residence hall housing application at To be eligible to continue living in the University housing, all resident students ust ake noral progress toward a degree as deterined by their acadeic departents. The Off Capus Life epartent in the ean of Students Office offers any resources and services to a wide variety of students including students currently living in the counity; students oving off capus; students living on capus; and graduate, undergraduate, and incoing students new to the Gainesville counity. Services include the Off-Capus Life website (www. offcapus.ufl.edu), Gator Guide to Off-Capus Life, apartent locator, oneon-one support for student and counity issues and concerns, events for off-capus students, and educational prograing to help students adjust to living in the counity. The publications and website include inforation and resources on budgeting, finding the right place to live, apartent locator, leases, city codes, landlord laws, and counity and capus resources. All services are free to students. For ore inforation, stop by the Off-Capus Life epartent in the ean of Students Office, 311 Peabody Hall, or call (352)

10 Graduate Highlight sell test Graduate student Jennifer Staps noticed as she was shadowing doctors in the UF cknight Brain Institute Center for Sell and Taste that Alzheier s patients were not tested for their sense of sell. That observation led her to devise a siple test, using a dollop of peanut butter and a ruler, to confir a diagnosis of early stage Alzheier s disease. The ability to sell is often one of the first things to be affected in cognitive decline. Staps thought of peanut butter because it is a pure odorant that is only detected by the olfactory nerve and is easy to access. Average Cost of Attendance The following is a projection of estiated cost for one acadeic year for a full-tie graduate student. See for further inforation. Tuition/Fees $13,400 Books and supplies.... $1,290 Coputer/Cell Phone... $1,360 Housing $6,610 Food $4,290 Transportation $1,100 Clothing aintenance... $690 Personal $270 Total $29,010 Tuition/fee figures are projected estiates for for incoing freshen and graduate students entering UF for the first tie. Tuition/fees for continuing students ay be lower. Out-of-state undergraduates should add $22,278 to projected tuition/fees. Out-of-state graduate students should add $17,394 to projected tuition/fees. 10

11 Staps found that patients in the early stages of Alzheier s disease had a draatic difference in detecting odor between the left and right nostril the left nostril did not detect the peanut butter until it was an average of 10 centieters closer to the nose than the right nostril. But we plan to study patients with ild cognitive ipairent to see if this test ight be used to predict which patients are going to get Alzheier s disease, Staps said. Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships GRAUATE Assistantships are available through individual acadeic units. Stipend rates are deterined by the eploying acadeic unit. Interested students should ask their acadeic-unit offices about the availability of assistantships and the procedure for applying. Early inquiry is essential to eeting application deadlines. The Graduate School Fellowship progra (GSF) represents the ost prestigious graduate student award available at the University. Funded at nationally copetitive levels, these highly desirable awards support students in all progras and departents of the University awarding a Ph or FA. The GSF provides at least a full four years of support through a nationally copetitive stipend and tuition waiver for qualifying students in Ph progras. The FA awards are for at least two years for students in FA progras. ost GSF will receive both research and teaching assignents. For ore inforation on the fellowships available, please contact the graduate coordinator for the degree progra of interest. The Grinter Fellowship naed in honor of r. Linton E. Grinter, ean of the Graduate School fro 1952 to 1969, helps recruit truly exceptional graduate students. Stipends are suppleents to existing assistantship stipend awards, and are norally $2000 to $4000. For details, contact the graduate coordinator in the appropriate acadeic unit. Acadeic Progras offer additional funding opportunities. Visit the following website to select the progra of choice. graduateschool.ufl.edu/acadeics/colleges-schools-and-departents 11

12 Applying for Adission Prospective students should apply for adission as early as possible. Soe acadeic units have early adission deadlines, and should be contacted for specific dates. Adission fors are available: online at adissions.ufl.edu/start.htl and subitted electronically, or through the ail, by contacting the acadeic unit An adission decision cannot be ade until the Office of Adissions and the acadeic unit both have received all aterials. The acadeic unit selection coittee reviews each applicant s total record. Based on that evaluation, the coittee akes its recoendation, and the acadeic unit will notify the applicant. When copleting your application, please indicate a ajor, college/school and degree to ensure evaluation by the correct departent. Requireents for Adission A recognized baccalaureate, graduate or professional degree fro a regionally accredited U.S. institution or a coparable degree fro an international institution. For applicants with a bachelor s degree only, a iniu grade point average of B (3.0), calculated fro all grades and credits after the seester where the applicant reached 60 seester hours or 90 quarter hours and Graduate Record Exaination (GRE) scores that are acceptable to the applicant s intended acadeic unit or, for select progras, at least 465 on the Graduate anageent Adission Test (GAT). These scores are used in the context of a holistic credential review process. For applicants fro countries (including Puerto Rico) where English is not the official language, a iniu score on one of these English Language Skills tests: Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): 550 paper, or 80 internet; International English Language Teting Syste (IELTS): 6; ichigan English Language Assessent Battery (ELAB): 77, or docuented successful copletion of the University of Florida English Language Institute progra. Satisfactory conduct record Proof of edical Iunization. Visit the following website: shcc.ufl.edu/files/2011/09/acl-002.pdf These are general adission requireents. Applicants should contact the acadeic unit for specific progra criteria

13 Graduate Inforation Telephone and Websites Adissions (352) Application Support Center (352) eail: Catalog Graduate gradcatalog.ufl.edu/ isability Resource Center (352) Editorial Office (352) eail: Financial Affairs (352) Graduate School (352) Graduate Student Affairs - (inority Progras, (352) International Outreach, Professional evelopent) student-life-and-support/diversity-progras Housing (352) Registrar (352) Student Affairs (352) Student Health Center (352) shcc.ufl.edu/ University of Florida University of Florida - ap capusap.ufl.edu/ Inforation 13

14 Graduate Highlight Breaking cheical bonds Natali i Russo works in coputational biology in the University of Florida s epartent of Cheistry and Quantu Theory Project, conducting research on environentally friendly ways to break the cheical bond of the oxygen olecule. Breaking the oxygen bond requires high energy, and current processes use expensive etals. i Russo is researching the use of enzyes to weaken the bond, aking it possible to break the oxygen bond without using etals. Such a breakthrough would allow for the developent of new industrial and pharaceutical applications. Adission The UF Graduate School welcoes you to apply for one of the highest quality and ost affordable graduate education opportunities available today. The graduate adission process is coordinated by the graduate departents and the adissions office. Graduate application instructions and graduate resources provide the inforation needed to choose a degree progra. To apply online, coplete the application for graduate adission. Transcript Requireents Applicants ust arrange to send official transcripts fro each institution attended to the Office of Adissions and the acadeic unit. Forer UF students do not need to request UF transcripts. Applicants who currently are enrolled at another institution ust send updated transcripts as soon as grades for that ter are available. International Applicants The University of Florida welcoes international students fro ore than 130 countries to study on our capus. ore than 5,000 of UF s graduate students fro across the globe ake significant contributions to vital research and teaching in one of ore than 250 graduate progras. Please see to learn ore. 14

15 Her work and the potential it holds earned i Russo a coveted Howard Hughes edical Institute (HHI) International Student Research Fellowship for The award for international students i Russo is fro Argentina coes with a $43,000-a-year grant to cover the third, fourth and fifth year of doctoral research for international students in biology, cheistry, physics, ath, coputer science, engineering, plant biology and interdisciplinary research. To qualify, a student ust be invited and studying at one of 61 HHI institutions. Test Score Requireents Test score results ust be sent directly to UF fro the testing agency. GRE ost applicants ust subit GRE scores that are acceptable to the progra of interest. Contact the progra for specific requireents. No GRE Soe FA or, Art Ed., usic Ed. perforance students with the College of Fine Arts do not need GRE scores. Contact the departent for specific requireents. GAT All BA applicants ust subit satisfactory scores on the Graduate anageent Adissions Test. GAT scores ay also be accepted by certain HA, Sport anageent, and Food and Resource Econoics progras. Contact the departent for specific requireents. FE (Fundaentals of Engineering) Soe engineering progras will accept FE scores as a substitute for the GRE. Contact the progra for specific requireents. Applicants with a previous graduate or professional degree fro a regionally accredited US institution ay be exept fro the Graduate Record Exa or Graduate anageent Adission Test at the progra s discretion. Contact the acadeic unit for specific progra criteria. Tests of English Language Skills Proficiency in the English language is required of applicants fro countries (including Puerto Rico) where English is not the official language. Applicants ust subit official scores fro one of the tests listed below. This requireent ay be waived if you have been enrolled in a degree seeking progra for one acadeic year (in a country where English is the official language) prior to your anticipated ter of enrollent at UF. TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) IELTS (International English Language Testing Syste) ELAB (ichigan English Language Assessent Battery) ocuented successful copletion of the University of Florida English Language Institute progra. 15

16 Colleges, egrees and Progras 16 egree levels are identified by the following abbreviations: = aster s S = Specialist E = Engineer = octoral * = Interdisciplinary Concentrations Available. See Graduate Catalog for details GRAUATE PROGRAS (College) EGREES Accounting (Business Adinistration) Advertising (Journalis and Counications) Aerospace Engineering (Engineering) Agricultural and Biological Engineering (Agricultural and Life Sciences or Engineering)* Agricultural Education and Counication (Agricultural and Life Sciences)*, Agronoy (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Anial olecular and Cellular Biology (Agricultural and Life Sciences), Anial Sciences (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Anthropology (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Applied Physiology and Kinesiology (Health and Huan Perforance) Athletic Training/Sports edicine Biobehavioral Science Clinical Exercise Physiology Exercise Physiology Huan Perforance Architecture (esign, Construction, and Planning)* Art (Arts)* Art Education (Arts) Art History (Arts) Astronoy (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Audiology (Public Health and Health Professions) Biocheistry and olecular Biology (edicine)* aalian Genetics Bioedical Engineering (Engineering) Biostatistics (Public Health and Health Professions) Botany (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Business Adinistration (Business Adinistration) Accounting Copetitive Strategy Entrepreneurship Finance, Global anageent Graha-Buffett Security Analysis Huan Resource anageent Inforation Systes and Operations anageent, Insurance International Studies Latin Aerican Business anageent, arketing, Quantitative Finance Real Estate Real Estate and Urban Analysis Retailing Sports Adinistration Cheical Engineering (Engineering), E, Cheistry (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Civil Engineering (Engineering)* Classical Studies (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Clinical and Health Psychology (Public Health and Health Professions) Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering (Engineering) Counication Sciences and isorders (Public Health and Health Professions), Coputer Engineering (Engineering)* Coputer Sciences (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Construction anageent (esign, Construction and Planning)* Sustainable Construction

17 Counseling and Counselor Education (Education) Counseling Psychology (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Creative Writing (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Criinology, Law and Society (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Curriculu and Instruction (Education) ental Sciences (entistry) Endodontics Orthodontics Periodontics Prosthodontics esign, Construction and Planning (esign, Construction and Planning)* Urban and Regional Planning igital Arts and Sciences (Engineering or Arts) Early Childhood Education (Education) Econoics (Business Adinistration) Educational Leadership (Education)* Electrical and Coputer Engineering (Engineering) Eleentary Education (Education) English (Liberal Arts and Sciences) English Education (Education) Entoology and Neatology (Agricultural and Life Sciences) Entrepreneurship (Business Adinistration) Environental and Global Health (Public Health and Health Professions) Environental Engineering Sciences (Engineering)* Epideiology (edicine or Public Health and Health Professions)* Biostatistics Health anageent and Policy Faily, Youth, and Counity Sciences (Agricultural and Life Sciences) Counity Studies Faily and Youth evelopent Nonprofit Organization evelopent Finance (Business Adinistration) Fire and Eergency Services (esign Construction and Planning) Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Food and Resource Econoics (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Agribusiness Food Science Food Science and Huan Nutrition (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Nutritional Sciences Forest Resources and Conservation (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Ecological Restoration Geoatics French and Francophone Studies (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Genetics and Genoics (Agricultural and Life Sciences, or Liberal Arts and Sciences, or edicine)* Geography (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Applications of Geographic Technologies Geology (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Geran (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Health Adinistration (Public Health and Health Professions) Health and Huan Perforance (Health and Huan Perforance)* Applied Physiology and Kinesiology Biobehavioral Science Exercise Physiology Health Behavior Recreation, Parks, and Touris Sport anageent Health Education and Behavior (Health and Huan Perforance) Health Services Research (Public Health and Health Professions) Higher Education Adinistration (Education)* Historic Preservation (esign, Construction and Planning), S,, S,,,, S, Colleges, egrees and Progras 17

18 Colleges, egrees and Progras 18 History (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Horticultural Science (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Environental Horticulture, Horticultural Sciences, Industrial and Systes Engineering (Engineering)*, E, Inforation Systes and Operations anageent (Business Adinistration) Supply Chain anageent Interdisciplinary Ecology (Agricultural and Life Sciences) Interior esign (esign, Construction and Planning)* International Business (Business Adinistration) International Construction anageent (esign, Construction, and Planning)* Landscape Architecture (esign, Construction and Planning)* Latin (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Latin Aerican Studies (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Law (Law) Coparative Law* Environental and Land Use Law International Taxation Taxation Linguistics (Liberal Arts and Sciences) anageent (Business Adinistration) Health Care Risk anageent arriage and Faily Counseling (Education), S, ass Counication (Journalis and Counications)* aterials Science and Engineering (Engineering)* atheatics (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* atheatics Education (Education) echanical Engineering (Engineering) edical Sciences (edicine)* Biocheistry and olecular Biology Clinical and Translational Sciences, Genetics Health Outcoes and Policy Iunology and icrobiology olecular Cell Biology Neuroscience Physiology and Pharacology Translational Biotechnology ental Health Counseling (Education), S, icrobiology and Cell Science (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* useology (Arts)* usic (Arts) Choral Conducting Coposition, Instruental Conducting usic Education usic History and Literature, usic Theory Perforance Sacred usic usic Education (Arts) Choral Conducting Coposition Electronic usic Ethnousicology Instruental Conducting usic History and Literature usic Theory Perforance Piano Pedagogy Nuclear Engineering Sciences (Engineering)*, E, Nursing (Nursing) Nursing Sciences (Nursing)* Nutritional Sciences (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Occupational Therapy (Public Health and Health Professions)

19 Pharaceutical Sciences (Pharacy)* Clinical Pharaceutical Sciences Clinical Pharacy Clinical Toxicology Forensic rug Cheistry Forensic Science Forensic NA and Serology edication Therapy anageent edicinal Cheistry, Pharaceutical Cheistry Pharaceutical Outcoes and Policy, Pharacodynaics, Pharacy, Philosophy (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Physics (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Plant edicine (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Plant olecular and Cellular Biology (Agricultural and Life Sciences or Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Plant Pathology (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Political Science (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* International evelopent Policy and Adinistration Political Capaigning Public Affairs Political Science International Relations (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Psychology (Liberal Arts and Sciences or Public Health & Health Professions)*, Public Health (Public Health & Health Professions) Biostatistics Environental Health, Epideiology Health anageent and Policy One Health Public Health Practice Social and Behavioral Sciences, Reading Education (Education) Real Estate (Business Adinistration) Recreation, Parks, and Touris (Health and Huan Perforance)* Natural Resource Recreation Therapeutic Recreation Touris Rehabilitation Science (Public Health and Health Professions)* Religion (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Research and Evaluation ethodology (Education), S, Roance Languages (Liberal Arts and Sciences) French and Francophone Studies Spanish School Counseling and Guidance (Education), S, School Psychology (Education), S, Science Education (Education) Social Studies Education (Education) Sociology (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Soil and Water Science (Agricultural and Life Sciences)* Agroecology Spanish (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Special Education (Education), S, Sport anageent (Health and Huan Perforance)* Statistics (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Student Personnel in Higher Education (Education), S Sustainable evelopent Practice (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Theatre (Fine Arts) Urban and Regional Planning (esign, Construction, and Planning)* Veterinary edical Sciences (Veterinary edicine)* Forensic Toxicology Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (Agricultural and Life Sciences)*, Woen s Studies (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Zoology (Liberal Arts and Sciences)* Colleges, egrees and Progras 19

20 Evolution and lib loss Francisca Leal also received a $43,000-a-year HHI grant in The award covers the third, fourth and fifth year of doctoral research for international students in biology, cheistry, physics, ath, coputer science, engineering, plant biology and interdisciplinary research. Her husband, Oscar Tarazona, won the award in (back) artin Cohn (front) Oscar Tarazona, Francisca Leal Interdisciplinary Concentrations A subprogra attached to certain ajors that is focused on a thee that crosses disciplines* Agroforestry Anial olecular and Cell Biology Clinical and Translational Science Geographic Inforation Systes Historic Preservation Hydrologic Sciences Quantitative Finance Sustainable Architecture Sustainable esign Tropical Conservation and evelopent Wetland Sciences Woen s and Gender Studies *Refer to the Graduate Catalog under ajors and Concentrations for ore inforation. gradcatalog.ufl.edu 20

21 Leal, a student in the epartent of Biology, is investigating the evolution of liblessness in snakes, a proble investigated in the 1990s by her entor, Professor artin Cohn, who was naed a HHI Early Career Scientist in Advances in genoics created an opportunity to revisit this question, and Leal discovered that a gene required for lib foration actually flickers on briefly but then goes silent. Although Cohn issed that developent years ago, he says, It is really quite gratifying to have y earlier work corrected by y own student. Leal said the award builds up y confidence as a young scientist and allows e to think about riskier but ore rewarding scientific questions. Graduate Highlight Graduate Certificates Graduate Certificates are a foral collection of courses that for a coherent progra of study offered through an acadeic unit. Soe graduate certificates are restricted to current graduate student in certain ajors or general area of study. Other graduate certificates are available to students not participating in a specific degree, ajor or concentration. Visit the following website for ore inforation on the graduate certificates. graduateschool.ufl.edu/acadeics/ graduate-certificates-list 21