May 2008 Archive

Drink specials quadruple likelihood of exiting a bar over legal limit to drive

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A last call should be issued for drink specials because they dramatically increase the risk of college students walking out of a bar intoxicated, especially if they are underage, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Health, Family, Florida, Gender on Tuesday, May 13, 2008.

UF creates first endowed chair in public interest communications

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications today announced the nation’s first endowed chair in public relations with a focus on public interest communications, a field of research and practice focused on tools and strategies to advance organizations’ missions and goals in the nonprofit and public sectors.

Filed under Research on Tuesday, May 13, 2008.

Update: Weekly

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This is Update Weekly, your online audio source for University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday May 12th, 2008.

Filed under Audio on Monday, May 12, 2008.

Demonstrations set for huge hurricane machine, shingle launcher

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 […]

Filed under General on Thursday, May 8, 2008.

Thirty-three faculty named UF Research Foundation professors for 2008

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 33 faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2008-2011.

Filed under Research on Thursday, May 8, 2008.

Holocaust studies at the University of Florida gets funding to recruit top scholar

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.

Filed under Research, Religion on Thursday, May 8, 2008.

MicroRNAs appear essential for retinal health

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.

Filed under Research, Health on Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

After mutual challenge, English professor and son each to publish a book

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.

Filed under Research, Arts on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

UF president schedules news conference to talk about budget

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 […]

Filed under General on Monday, May 5, 2008.

St. Petersburg Times: Boaz Dvir

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 […]

Filed under UF In The News on Saturday, May 3, 2008.