GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors to the Florida Museum of Natural History can discover how butterflies have influenced Zuni Indian art in a new exhibit,“Butterflies and Moths in Contemporary Zuni Art .” The exhibit is on display through 2008.
This temporary exhibit highlights the role of butterflies in the belief system and art of contemporary [...]
A section of Northwest 17th Street between West University Avenue and Eighth Avenue was renamed Lt. Corey Dahlem Drive on Friday, Dec. 7. The renaming was in honor of Dahlem, a 22-year-veteran Gainesville Police officer who was killed by a drunken driver the night of UF’s second men’s basketball national championship in April.
The city street [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Andrew Hines, a former prisoner of war and a successful engineer, businessman, civil servant and philanthropist, will speak at the University of Florida’s graduate degree commencement ceremony Dec. 14. Hines graduated from UF in 1947.
The advanced degree ceremony is one of five commencement ceremonies being held this fall.
Hines began working at Florida [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With more than half of us expecting to play Santa for ourselves this holiday season, a University of Florida family finance expert warns that being self-indulgent — even at bargain prices — can lead to a bad case of buyer’s remorse.
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Martin Uman, co-director of UF’s Lightning Research Laboratory, was quoted in a Dec. 9 New York Times Magazine story about the possibility of harnessing energy from lightning.
Ron Cave, a scientist at UF’s Biological Control Research and Containment Laboratory in Fort Pierce, was quoted in a Dec. 9 Orlando Sentinel story about the introduction of an exotic wasp to save the sago palm, which is being devastated by scale. The quote was the result of a news release.
Entomologist Marjorie Hoy was quoted in a Dec. 8 Miami Herald story about about her search for a natural enemy for the plant-damaging red palm mite. Two other UF entomologists, Adrian Hunsberger and Jorge Pena, also were sources in the story.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History has received a $397,298 federal grant to expand its “Marvelous Explorations through Science and Stories” program in Marion County Head Start classrooms.
The Administration for Children, Youth and Families grant will allow the museum to double the number of classrooms it reaches to 32 with the science-centered [...]