Gator Dining now offers University of Florida faculty and staff a meal membership plan for 30 meals at the Fresh Food Company (Broward Dining Hall), Gator Corner Dining Center and the café at the Cancer/Genetics Research Building. The plan also includes $25 in Flex Bucks, which are accepted at all Gator Dining locations and their [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Nominations will be accepted through June 20 for the Summer 2007 Outstanding Leadership Award for Male and Female Graduating Seniors, sponsored by the University of Florida Alumni Association. The students selected for these awards will be acknowledged at graduation ceremonies on Aug. 11.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gators everywhere are getting used to first-place rankings, so here’s another opportunity — UF boasts the nation’s first research-based radio series on family life.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Addictive & Health Behaviors Research Institute, part of the University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance, has received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to continue research on alcohol and fitness interventions for adolescents. NIAAA, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, will fund the research for the next five years.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — At 60 feet long, megalodon was the largest shark that ever lived and a dominant marine predator. Sharks are at risk today, with recent population declines attributed to humans. Though megalodon vanished 2 million years ago, its fascinating story inspires lessons for science and shark conservation.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Michael G. Perri has been named interim dean of the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, effective June 18.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — D. Grant McFadden, program director of the University of Florida College of Medicine’s Emerging Pathogens Initiative, has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — AlzOnline.net works to provide caregivers, especially those whose primary language is Spanish, a way to find help and instruction through Internet chat rooms, telephone support and education.
“The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical,” will make its Gainesville, Fla., premiere at the University of Florida Phillips Center for the Performing Arts for a limited five-day engagement beginning June 29 and running through July 1.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Growing old can be disheartening. But for people with diabetes, the aging process can be downright depressing. A University of Florida study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that older adults diagnosed with the type 2 form of the disease are twice as likely as their peers to suffer from depression.