University of Florida News

Political science professor Daniel Smith was quoted in an Aug. 19 USA Today story about how the weather in Denver might affect the Democratic National Convention.

Wagner Vendrame, an associate professor of environmental horticulture at the University of Florida’s Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, recently received the 2008 Florida State Horticultural Society Presidential Gold Medal Award.
Presented to Vendrame at the society’s annual meeting this summer, the award is the most prestigious honor from the FSHS, given to the individual whose [...]

Media Advisory

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With Tropical Storm Fay bearing down on Florida, thousands of residents are likely to be faced with power outages that are both disruptive and costly.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A veteran online journalist and educator has been selected as executive director of the new Center for Media Innovation and Research at the University of Florida.
Professor David Carlson has been a pioneer in the development of interactive newspapers since the 1980s. He spent 20 years at newspapers large and small and founded [...]

Epidemiologist Alexander Wagenaar was quoted in an Aug. 18 Associated Press story about the efforts of more than 100 university presidents nationwide to have the federal government consider lowering the legal drinking age.

University of Florida officials are monitoring Tropical Storm Fay. Plans currently call for UF work activities to remain on a normal schedule. Should the forecast conditions for the Gainesville area worsen, new information will be posted on UF’s home page.
Further storm information can be found on UF’s tropical weather update page: http://www.ufl.edu/weather/hurricane/.

Wayne Archer, director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies, was quoted in an Aug. 15 Sarasota Herald-Tribune story about a new report on home sales and prices in southwest Florida.

Economics department chairman Jon Hamilton was quoted in an Aug. 15 Florida Today story about the Labor Department’s latest report on inflation.

President Bernie Machen was quoted in an Aug. 15 Chronicle of Higher Education story about how public universities are trying to prevent peer institutions from stealing each other’s faculty members.