University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A scientific collaboration led by a University of Florida physicist announced today the discovery of two rare types of particles, exotic relatives of the much more common proton and neutron.

Law professor Diane Mazur was quoted in an Oct. 23 United Press International story about how Iraqi insurgents may be trying to influence the outcome of U.S. midterm elections.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of October 23rd.

Author Carl Hiaasen’s keynote speech for the University of Florida Campus and Community Sustainability Conference.

Gainesville, Fla. – The Florida MBA program was ranked No. 6 for best overall academic experience in the 2007 Princeton Review survey of the nation’s Top Ten business schools. University of Florida is the only public school to appear on the list, and no other school based in Florida appears in any of the Top Ten listings.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida entomology doctoral student Emily Saarinen has received the international Canon National Parks Science Scholars scholarship, an $80,000 three-year award for her research on endangered Miami blue butterflies.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Getting the goods on a thief may not be necessary if a store’s interior is designed to deter shoplifting in the first place, a new University of Florida study finds.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.— Three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen will speak at 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Phillips Center at the University of Florida. Hiaasen’s talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by ACCENT Speakers Bureau.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dedee DeLongpré, director of the University of Florida Office of Sustainability, will speak at the Nov. 8 Community Campus Council Breakfast Series program.

UF’s decision to reduce merit scholarship aid packages was cited in an Oct. 18 editorial in the Washington Post (circ. 724,242).