Anthropology professor Connie Mulligan was quoted in a Feb. 13 Reuters story about her research that found early migrants from Asia to the New World stayed possibly 20,000 years on a strip of land called Beringia that once connected Alaska to Siberia. The story also was the subject of numerous other media reports, including The Discovery Channel. See related release.
Pharmacy professor Paul Doering was quoted in a Feb. 13 USA Today story about the need for pharmacists to counsel customers to help prevent errors.
George Burgess, director of UF’s International Shark Attack File, was quoted in a Feb. 12 Associated Press story about the annual report of shark attacks in 2007. The story was the result of a news release.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Fatal shark attacks worldwide dipped to their lowest levels in two decades in 2007 with the sole casualty involving a swimmer vacationing in the South Pacific, according to the latest statistics from the University of Florida.
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History professor William Link’s book “Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism” was reviewed in the Feb. 10 New York Times Sunday Book Review. A review also appeared Feb. 12 in the Wall Street Journal. A link is not available because the Journal is by paid subscription only. See related release.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new University of Florida study suggests.
Bruce Goldberger, director of the William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine, was quoted in a Feb. 7 ABC News story about how to use painkillers safely.
Evolutionary biologist David Reed was quoted in a Feb. 7 New York Times story about his research using 1,000-year-old mummies that indicates lice had accompanied their human hosts in the original peopling of the Americas. The story also appeared on Reuters and in numerous other news media. See related news release.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Using the genetic equivalent of an ancient thermometer, a team of scientists has determined that the Earth endured a massive cooling period between 500 million and 3.5 billion years ago.