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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — All eyes are on where hurricanes make landfall, but the massive storms actually cause the most deaths inland, where severe flooding often surprises residents.
Now, researchers are learning how to predict where tropical storms and hurricanes will dump the most rain — even days after — and hundreds of miles away [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A protein long thought to be one of the body’s supporting players has quietly been taking a lead role in healthy eyesight, a discovery that could rapidly lead to treatments for babies born before their eyes are finished growing, University of Florida and Harvard Medical School researchers have found.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dianna Morgan was named chairman of the University of Florida Board of Trustees on Friday, while trustee W.A. “Mac” McGriff III was named vice chairman. The positions become effective July 1.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s housing market, thought to be stabilizing earlier this year, deteriorated in the latest quarterly survey conducted by the University of Florida, a situation likely brought on by uneasiness about lending practices, insurance rates and the state’s property tax structure.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of June 18th.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dianna Morgan was named chairman of the University of Florida Board of Trustees on Friday, while trustee W.A. “Mac” McGriff III was named vice chairman. The positions become effective July 1.

Human Resource Services has moved to its new location at 903 W. University Ave. (formerly the BellSouth Building). All HRS offices formerly located in Stadium West, the Academic Personnel Office in Tigert Hall, and the Education and General/Auxiliaries satellite office at the Reitz Student Union are now housed at the new site.
All HRS phone numbers [...]

An information session on the Employee Education Program (EEP) will be held at 3 p.m. July 23 in Room 120 of the HRS building.
To register for this information session, log-in to myUFL and navigate to My Self Service > Training and Development. The course code for the information session is GET012 (Employee Education Prog. Info).
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University of Florida employees who have unused personal leave days or personal holidays should make plans now to take the time off. Any unused USPS personal holidays and TEAMS/faculty personal leave days not used by July 12 will expire.
Direct questions to Central Leave Administration at central-leave@ufl.edu.