GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida student will attend the 56th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Prize Laureates as part of a student delegation of 60 students from the United States.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Andrea Yates should be committed, not convicted of murder, for the deaths of her five children, according to University of Florida Levin College of Law Professor Christopher Slobogin.
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This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of June 19th.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The head of the department of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been named dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida, Provost Janie Fouke announced today.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will begin offering a new graduate student health insurance package in January, President Bernie Machen announced today.
Cardiovascular surgeon Fred Edwards was quoted in a story in the July 11 issue of Newsweek about doing coronary bypass surgery with the heart still beating.
Alligator expert Frank Mazzotti was quoted in a June 15 United Press International story about exotic Burmese pythons threatening the ecology of the Everglades. The quote was the result of a UF News Bureau tip sheet.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Permafrost soil blanketing northeastern Siberia contains about 75 times more carbon than is released by burning fossil fuels each year. That means it could become a potent, likely unstoppable contributor to global climate change if it continues to thaw.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Elderly patients who develop anemia risk serious health problems that increase the odds they will be hospitalized and nearly double the chance they will die, according to findings from a long-term study by a multi-institute research team.