University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A provocative, new interpretation of a classic tale recently opened at the Harn Museum of Art entitled Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor. It features 45 digital-inkjet prints illustrating Lewis Carroll’s famous work “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
The exhibit will be on display until Oct. 19. Following its debut at [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thirteen members of one of China’s top universities visited the University of Florida this week to discuss collaboration and begin planning a joint research center on clean energy.
Researchers at Hangzhou-based Zhejiang University (ZHU), one of China’s top three universities, plan to work with their UF counterparts on research and educational efforts aimed [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors at the Harn Museum of Art will enjoy innovative and engaging programming during Museum Nights from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday.
Beginning at 6 p.m. guests are invited to explore water-based art media activities that complement the Harn Museum of Art’s all-video exhibition “Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Happiness may be contagious in the workplace, but enthusiasm is annoying, especially if it involves bosses who wave their hands and talk too loudly.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Itzhak Perlman concert, originally scheduled for April 13, has been rescheduled at 4 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2008 at the Phillips Center.
Tickets for the April 13 performance will be accepted at the Jan. 4 concert. Patrons who are unable to attend the new date may receive a full refund from [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If worms could talk, they might tell potential suitors, “I like the way you wriggle,” complete with that telltale come slither look. But worms send their valentines via signals known as pheromones, a complex chemical code researchers are now cracking, according to a study published today (July 23) in the journal Nature.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Harn Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the museum will remain open on Tuesdays, thanks to the generous support of Harn members and friends.
After the University of Florida announced a university-wide budget reduction for the 2008 – 2009 fiscal year, the Harn was required to lower the cost of [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida law professor Michael Seigel has become the second UF faculty member to be honored as a co-recipient of The Florida Bar’s 2008 Faculty Professionalism Award. Seigel received the award in recognition of his commitment to instilling the ideals and values of the legal profession through teaching, scholarship and service. [...]

Plant pathologist Monica Elliott was quoted in a July 23 Associated Press story about a mysterious disease affecting the sabal palm, Florida’s state tree.

Neuroscientist Brent Reynolds, one of the scientists who first discovered stem cells in the adult central nervous system, and McKnight Brain Institute Executive Director Dennis Steindler were interviewed in the July 23 Nature for a story about Reynolds’ decision to return to science at the University of Florida.