University of Florida News

Dave Denslow Nov. 20 Tampa Tribune (circ. 313,693)

University officials are monitoring the track of Tropical Storm Gamma. Currently, plans call for classes and work activities to remain on a normal schedule for Monday. Should the storm’s predicted track change or should forecast conditions for the Gainesville area worsen, new information will be posted on UF’s home page.

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — On Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005, University of Florida student and Merritt Island native Thomas Brown was found slain in Jacksonville following the Florida-Georgia football game.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Bulgarian State Academic Opera brings Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece “Madama Butterfly” to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21. UF associate professor of music and opera workshop director Anthony Offerle will lead a pre-performance discussion, which is free and open to the public, at 6:45 p.m.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – As hip and energetic as ever, the Ahn Trio brings an eclectic program to University Auditorium at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20. The artists will lead a pre-performance discussion in the Auditorium’s Friends of Music Room at 3 p.m.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Having high blood pressure and a particular genetic alteration dramatically increases the risk of heart attack, stroke or death, and may explain why some hypertensive patients fare worse than others — even if they take the same medication, University of Florida researchers announced this week.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History, Harn Museum of Art and University of Florida Performing Arts host MOTOWN at the Cultural Plaza, a fund-raiser benefiting the University of Florida Cultural Plaza, on Jan. 21.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida ranks 11th nationally in the number of students studying abroad, according to the Open Doors report by the Institute of International Education.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Researchers in the College of Health and Human Performance and the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida are recruiting participants for a study involving a new wheelchair design they hope will break many boundaries that people encounter when using traditional wheelchairs.

The feminist movement could be over, at least when it comes to a wife’s last name. While many young women over the past twenty-five years kept their maiden names after marriage, a University of Florida study shows what researchers call a “shocking” reversal. Here’s UF Linguistics researcher Diana Boxer.