WHO: University of Florida wind engineering faculty and graduate and undergraduate students.
WHAT: Demonstration of massive hurricane simulator and other unique equipment intended to mimic the effects of hurricanes as part of UF research aimed at toughening homes against the big storms. Researchers will use the 2,800-horsepower machine to blast a large mockup of a house […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 33 faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2008-2011.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida is seeking to elevate the prominence of its Holocaust research program, and a couple from south Florida feel that attracting a national authority on the subject is one way to do that.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Retinas in newborn mice appear perfectly fine without any help from tiny bits of genetic material called microRNAs except for one thing — the retinas do not work.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A couple of years ago, University of Florida English professor Sidney Homan was walking through Central Park with his son Danny, an aspiring novelist studying for his master’s degree in creative writing at Texas State University.
WHO: University of Florida President Bernie Machen
WHAT: Machen is announcing UF’s budget cuts today and will hold a news conference to answer questions about those cuts.
WHEN: 4 p.m. today.
WHERE: President’s Conference Room, Tigert Hall, Room 226.
BACKGROUND: Machen has asked deans to create plans for reducing their budgets by 6 percent for the […]
Boaz Dvir, a graduate student in the Documentary Institute, was quoted in a May 3 St. Petersburg Times story about a new documentary titled “Jessie’s Dad.” The documentary, co-directed by Dvir and graduate student Rebecca Goldman, is about Mark Lunsford, the father of Jessica Lunsford, who was kidnapped and killed in 2006. The documentary also […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have identified a drug compound that dramatically lowers blood pressure, improves heart function and — in a remarkable finding — prevents damage to the heart and kidneys in rats with persistent hypertension.
Stan Smith, director of the Bureau of Economic Business Research, was quoted in a May 1 South Florida Sun-Sentinel story about the drop in the number of non-Hispanic whites moving into Florida.
Heart attack patients may one day treat hypertension and clear up scarring on their heart muscle with the same medication.