University of Florida

Gainesville, FL
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    249 faculty · 288 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Journalism40 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 20 #19 of 25 in Communication
    Roxane Coche, Associate Professor and Chair - Department of Media Production, Management, and Technology h-index 12
    Jeongmin Ham, Assistant Professor - Department of Advertising h-index 5
    Rachel Grant, Associate Professor - Department of Journalism h-index 4
    Antoine Haywood, Assistant Professor - Department of Journalism h-index 3
    Courses: Writing Mechanics · Broadcast Writing Bootcamp · Future Food · Journalism, Justice, and Civic Change · Principles of Journalism · Reporting +34 more
    Mechanical Engineering40 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 23.4 #36 of 70 in Mechanical Engineering
    Oana Cazacu, Courtesy Professor h-index 59
    Notable: “Plane stress yield function for aluminum alloy sheets—part 1: theory” (2003) · 1,722 citations
    Youping Chen, Professor h-index 37
    Jacob N. Chung, Andrew H. Hines, Jr./Florida Progress Corporation Eminent Scholar h-index 36
    Eric Du, MAE Affiliate Faculty / Associate Professor in Civil and Coastal Engineering h-index 30
    Notable: “Impact assessment of reinforced learning methods on construction workers' fall risk behavior using virtual reality” (2019) · 204 citations
    Courses: Learn to Fly · Introduction to Aerospace Engineering · Aerodynamics · Compressible Flow · Aerospace Structures · Aerospace Composites +34 more
    Biology40 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 37.5 #13 of 68 in Biology
    Robert Holt, Eminent Scholar & Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecology h-index 116
    Theoretical Ecology Profile: Website: TEST FOR BIO Back to Directory School Logo Link College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    Notable: “The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology” (2004) · 5,388 citations
    James Liao, Professor of Biology h-index 98
    Notable: “Non-fermentative pathways for synthesis of branched-chain higher alcohols as biofuels” (2008) · 1,965 citations
    Francis E. Putz, Distinguished Professor h-index 82
    Notable: “Natural climate solutions” (2017) · 3,355 citations
    Mark Martindale, Professor of Biology – Director of the Whitney Laboratory h-index 76
    Notable: “Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA” (2000) · 2,549 citations
    Courses: Plant Symbiosis · Medical and Forensic Plant Biology · First Year Introduction: Biology at UF · Biological Sciences · Laboratory in Biological Science · Integrated Principles of Biology 1 +34 more
    Nursing40 faculty · 26 courses avg h-index 14.7 #21 of 37 in Nursing
    Diana Wilkie, Professor; Director, Center For Palliative Care Research h-index 48
    Ed on pain, symptom science, and palliative care in populations spanning the life cycle with special focus on adults, older adults, and reducing health disparities. Her clinical work with cancer patients led to the development of a tablet-b
    Notable: “Evidence for the existing American Nurses Association-recognized standardized nursing terminologies: A systematic review” (2013) · 203 citations
    Yingwei Yao, Research Associate Professor h-index 29
    Include:Statistical analysis, including statistical inference, regression, multi-level modeling, longitudinal analysis, study design and power analysisMachine learning, including clustering, classification, decision tree, splines, kernel me
    Notable: “Evidence for the existing American Nurses Association-recognized standardized nursing terminologies: A systematic review” (2013) · 203 citations
    Lisiane Pruinelli, Interim Department Chair, Biobehavioral Nursing Science h-index 19
    Longitudinal Data Analysis Applied Clinical Informatics Artificial Intelligence Big data analytics Liver Transplantation Machine Learning Organ transplantation Renal Transplantation data science machine learning for predictive analytics Pub
    Notable: “Artificial intelligence in nursing: Priorities and opportunities from an international invitational think‐tank of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative” (2021) · 376 citations
    Marcia K Johansson, Associate Professor h-index 9
    Notable: “A Mobile Health Intervention to Improve Self-Care in Patients With Heart Failure: Pilot Randomized Control Trial” (2017) · 103 citations
    Courses: Transcultural Communications in Health Care Today · Clinical Reasoning: Health Assessment · Lead and Inspire 1: Professional Nursing Practice · Pathophysiology and Pharmacology · Pathophysiology/Pharmacology in Nursing 2 · Lead and Inspire 2: Research and Evidence-Based Nursing +20 more
    Government36 faculty · 40 courses avg h-index 19 #38 of 100 in Political Science
    Michael Bernhard, Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar h-index 42
    Michael McDonald, Professor h-index 21
    Amie Kreppel, Professor h-index 19
    Leslie Paul Thiele, Distinguished Professor and Field Chair (Political Theory) h-index 18
    Notable: “Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law” (2008) · 265 citations
    Courses: Comparative Politics Introduction · Culture and Politics · Democracy in Dark Times · Western European Politics · African Politics · Introduction to Latin American Politics +34 more
    Economics28 faculty · 37 courses avg h-index 17.1 #50 of 104 in Economics
    Jonathan Hamilton, Emeritus Professor h-index 63
    Es on theoretical public economics with a focus on models of tax competition and optimal income taxation. Recently, he has studied prescription drug pricing and guarantees in art auctions. Professor Hamilton has been a visiting faculty memb
    Notable: “Rethinking the Effect of Immigration on Wages” (2011) · 1,345 citations
    David Sappington, Eminent Scholar Director, Robert F. Lanzillotti Public Policy Research Center h-index 58
    Es on the design of reward structures in the presence of limited information, particularly in regulated industries. Professor Sappington has also served as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Education PHD &
    Notable: “Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships” (1991) · 845 citations
    Joseph V. Terza, Faculty h-index 28
    Health policy include: the analysis of the labor market outcomes of individuals with spinal cord injury; the economic causes and consequences of substance abuse; the economics of nicotine and tobacco use; the behavioral economics of obes
    Notable: “Two-stage residual inclusion estimation: Addressing endogeneity in health econometric modeling” (2007) · 1,702 citations
    Richard Romano, Professor and Graduate Coordinator - Public Economics, Education Policy, Public Choice h-index 28
    On education policy, political economy, and provision of local public goods. His research has been supported by eight National Science Foundation grants. Romano has served as a member of the editorial boards on the American Economic Review
    Notable: “Competition between Private and Public Schools, Vouchers, and Peer-Group Effects” (1998) · 892 citations
    Courses: Principles of Macroeconomics · Principles of Microeconomics · Economics of Sustainability · Data is Everywhere · Intermediate Microeconomics · Intermediate Macroeconomics +31 more

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About University of Florida. University of Florida in Gainesville, FL reports an overall acceptance rate of 19.8%, an early-round acceptance rate of 22.0%, an SAT middle 50% of 1330–1470, a class size of 7,500, and a yield of 43.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Flagship FL public. Large research university. Strong engineering and pre-health programs.