The fire season has barely started, but the costs of wildfires in Florida are already soaring. Few homes have been destroyed so far, but with more dry weather likely, more will probably go up in flames before the summer rains start. Given that the disastrous fires of 1998 didn’t get cranking until June, 2007 is likely to go down as the costliest fire season on record.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Fine Arts has named Edward Schaefer as the new associate dean for academic and student affairs.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Believing in yourself may be good for the soul, but it can also be good for the bank account, according to a new University of Florida study that finds self-confidence can translate into earning hundreds of thousands of dollars more over a lifetime.
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High self-esteem really pays off in cold hard cash. A new University of Florida study shows people with high self-esteem as teens and young adults draw higher salaries in middle age than their less confident counterparts. The gap’s really large for those who don’t grow up in poverty. Here’s UF management researcher [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shawn Kneipp, Ph.D., A.R.N.P., an associate professor at the University of Florida College of Nursing, has been invited to join the editorial board of the journal Nursing Research.
Pediatrics professor Arlan Rosenbloom was quoted in a May 16 Associated Press national wire story about the trial of an accused child pornographer in Atlanta.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida College of Dentistry faculty members have been tapped to serve on national dental associations.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Academic and Professional Assembly (APA) at the University of Florida recently announced officer election results for the 2007-08 academic year.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The men’s basketball team isn’t the only program with back-to-back successes at the University of Florida. Betty Smocovitis, a professor of zoology and history, has been selected to serve as a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society visiting scholar, just one year after botanist Pam Soltis at the Florida Museum of Natural History became the first person to receive the honor at UF since 1970.