University of Florida News

Former Gov. Bob Graham wrote a June 30 column in the Palm Beach Post about the state’s purchase of 200,000 acres of farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. to improve water flow for the Everglades. Graham, also a former U.S. senator, founded the Graham Center for Public Service at UF.

This is Update Weekly, your online audio source of University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday, June 30th.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Build it and they will stay” would be wise policy with today’s growing number of elderly and disabled people who want to remain in their own homes, a new University of Florida study finds.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.— Beginning July 8, the Harn Museum of Art will exhibit the artwork of Papua New Guinea in an exhibition entitled “Cultivating Spirits: The Art of Sepik River Yam Displays.”
The exhibition focuses on the ritual display of yams that occurs around the time of harvest in Sepik River societies. For many Sepik peoples, yams [...]

New University of Florida research shows there’s about a 60% chance that your home could one day be home to someone with a disability and it could be you, but you might not be able to get through the doorway. Here’s UF researcher Stanley Smith.

Wayne Archer, executive director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies, was quoted in a June 27 New York Times story on how depreciated housing values might benefit retirees looking for new homes.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Library West will initiate a pilot SelfCheck service beginning Monday. The SelfCheck service will enable students, faculty and staff to check out most library materials by themselves, making for a more efficient and streamlined service.
Library patrons will swipe their University of Florida ID cards at the SelfCheck machine and follow simple on-screen [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Juliana Barr, University of Florida assistant professor of history, was recently awarded one of the top international book awards for female historians. Barr received the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Books Prize for her first book, “Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.” The book [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The flamingo looks like it should be closely related to the stork or crane, but its closest relative may actually be the diminutive, modest grebe.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For black people, it doesn’t matter whether their color shows up in pigments or pixels. Doctors may be less likely to heed their complaints either way.