CISE Graduate Blog

  Dear Graduate Coordinators and Staffers,  Welcome to the new semester! My name is Kexuan Wu, and I am the Graduate Student Coordinator at the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). We want to thank you for your dedication and support of UF’s graduate students and postdocs.   As the semester begins, I’d like to share some resources from our center that are available to graduate students and postdocs.  One of our key offerings is the   Passport to Great Teaching program , where your graduate students, TAs, and postdocs can earn the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning   (CIRTL) Associate, Practitioner, and Scholar Certificates. These certificates help participants understand the value of the Teaching-as-Research process, and how it can be used for ongoing enhancement of learning.  Each semester, we also offer Passport Workshops to keep TAs and Graduate Students connected and informed, while strengthening their teaching skil...

  Hello! In partnership with the CWC, UF’s Therapeutic Horticulture Program will be once again offering a free therapeutic horticulture program for UF students, geared toward students struggling with stress, anxiety, loneliness, and depression. Research on this program has revealed strongly positive outcomes, including an increase in academic resilience. Please pass this along to any students you work with – thank you!  

  Updated Thesis and Dissertation Template Now Available Online! You can find the new template and updated resources on both our and UFIT’s website. Dear Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff, We're thrilled to announce that UFIT has updated the Thesis and Dissertation template to streamline the formatting process for our graduate students! If you're just starting to format, please use the latest template. If you have already been using our template? Don’t stress! We will continue accepting thesis and dissertation submissions using the previous version of template through the end of Summer 2026. Formatting resources for versions are will be available on our website and UFIT’s website . New template: https://it.ufl.edu/helpdesk/graduate-resources/ms-word--latex-templates/ Video tutorials on formatting: https://it.ufl.edu/helpdesk/graduate-resources/online-tutorials/ Sample pages: https://success.grad.ufl.edu/t...