New College News

When Aleah Colón-Alfonso—a student from the Class of 2022 at New College of Florida—graduates on May 20, her commencement speaker will be alumna Maxeme Tuchman ’00.

Accolades continue to abound for New College of Florida fourth-year student Antonia “Toni” Ginsberg-Klemmt, who was just awarded another $100,000 for her nationally-lauded GismoPower invention.

Rosemary Mejia envisions a society in which more individuals—regardless of their financial or demographical barriers—have equitable access to healthcare. This is one of the keys to global transformation, Mejia believes, and she aspires to be part of that change.

Two New College of Florida students were selected this year to receive competitive Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to study in China and Tajikistan, respectively, this summer.

Jacob Silverman began his academic journey at New College of Florida in Fall 2019, and he is serving as an extern to General Counsel David Fugett this spring.

Three New College students spent the 2020 Independent Study Period researching American alligators and published their findings on March 21 in the peer-reviewed "Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens."

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) has awarded a three-year, $1.5-million research grant to one New College of Florida professor and three international collaborators for an interdisciplinary study on marine mammals.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has granted a highly competitive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) award to New College of Florida and partnering institutions for a project entitled "Neurobehavioral, Physiological, and Computational Processes of Auditory Object Learning in Mammals."

This year, five New College of Florida professors were awarded tenure at the March 15 meeting of the Board of Trustees. The professors are: