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Choose from 45 majors ranging across the sciences, mathematics, arts, languages and cultures, design your own area of concentration, or explore professional fields like computer science, data science, environmental studies, and public policy. Explore Academics & Majors

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Fiske Guide to Colleges ranks New College a Top 10 “Best Buy” public college

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Public liberal arts college in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report, and #1 in Florida

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US News and World Report ranks the Florida Public University System

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Toni Ginsberg-Klemmt Physics/Environmental Studies Student Ginsberg-Klemmt won a 2021 OZY Genius Award for her patent-pending invention GismoPower - a mobile solar carport with an integrated electric vehicle charger that she designed for the New College campus. People at New

Rhys Shanhan Political Science Student Political science thesis student Rhys Shanahan is the newest extern to New College’s General Counsel David Fugett. People of New

David Brain Urban Studies Professor Most of us live in cities. Few of us actually think about them. David Brain, Ph.D. does, and he has spent a lifetime doing so. People of New

Marjorie Thomas Student Affairs Vice President Thomas, who joined New College as vice president for student affairs in August, looks forward to helping the university grow and achieve its priorities while building on the distinctive features that have enabled it to thrive as a public liberal arts college. People at New

Xia Shi History & International Studies Professor Shi received a 2021 Fulbright award to conduct research at the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica in Taiwan for her upcoming book Concubines in Public: Embodied Subjects and the Politics of the Private in Republican China. People of New

Joshua Ingram Statistics/Applied Data Science Student Joshua Ingram just earned second place in a major project competition for his analysis of solar flares, and he is interning at some of the world’s most prestigious scientific institutions. People at New

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Tampa Bay Estuary Program grant funds shark research at New College

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Environmental Research

Posted November 15, 2021

With a focus on blacktip, blacknose, bull and great hammerhead sharks in lower Tampa Bay, Professor Jayne Gardiner will use acoustic transmitters to discover the sharks’ nursery areas and study their habitat use.