Stan Smith, director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, was quoted in a March 20 USA Today story about how the housing crisis had reduced migration to Florida.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Student Health Care Center is inviting UF employees to take part in a free seven-week program to help them quit smoking.
Participants in the program, which also is sponsored by the university’s Employee Assistance Program and Area Health Education Centers Program, will meet once a week during their lunch [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Calling it a silver lining may be a stretch, but the storm clouds wrought by the devastating 2004 hurricane season did bring the Sunshine State at least one ray of relief.
Here’s the print version of InsideUF for March 18, 2008.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jim Cuda is a matchmaker, but he doesn’t help lonely hearts find love. He finds organisms to fight invasive plants running amok in Florida.
An associate professor of entomology, Cuda is one of several scientists with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences who researches insects and pathogens that keep the pest plants [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jason Colquitt and Jeffery LePine, both full professors in the Warrington College of Business Administration’s department of Management, were selected as the associate editors of two of the leading journals in management research.
Colquitt was selected as an associate editor of Academy of Management Journal. LePine accepted the position of associate editor for [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History will host the 31st annual Herpetology Conference on March 29-30.
For more information about the conference, visit www.flmnh.ufl.edu//herpetology/herpsconference/afhc.htm or e-mail apitt@ufl.edu.
Recently, the University of Florida broke ground on the Pathogens Research Facility, a state-of-the-art laboratory that will serve as home to UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute.
This new building is the physical manifestation of an initiative President Bernie Machen began pursuing about two years ago, but which has roots in the university that go much deeper.
UF has [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More than 170 dancers from Gainesville and across the country spun into town for “Stompin’ at The Swamp,” Feb. 29- March 2. The weekend’s workshops, lessons and dances all had the theme of “Leaping through Time.” The convention wanted to teach beginning and advanced swing dancers alike about the history of [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — The Economist magazine has ranked the University of Florida’s MBA Program at the Hough Graduate School of Business No. 1 in the world.
The survey was the first to review distance-learning MBA programs, and was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). EIU’s criteria included program content, quality of students and distance-learning [...]