GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Fluctuating gas prices and environmental concerns are leading many to electric-powered cars, and a new University of Florida partnership hopes to find out if it’s really a cleaner, cheaper and more reliable choice.
UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences extension researcher Pierce Jones is working with North Carolina-based companies Progress Energy, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Undergraduate students from the University of Florida will present research on health policy at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Pugh Hall Ocora in a discussion hosted by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
The Politics of Health Policy’s three discussion panels will cover international health care issues at 2 p.m., federal and [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida President Bernie Machen and his wife, Chris, pledged today a donation equal to the president’s $285,000 annual bonus for a scholarship program for students who may not otherwise get the opportunity to attend college.
Machen told the university’s Board of Trustees during its quarterly meeting of his intentions to give [...]
The University of Florida Gators claimed their eighth SEC football title today after a 31-20 victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the championship game in Atlanta.
To view a photo slideshow presentation of the football victory, click here: http://www.urel.ufl.edu/production/photography/multimedia.html
More UF football news is available at http://www.gatorzone.com/.
Gainesville, Fla. — Public television station WUFT-TV is celebrating 50 years of broadcasting to 16 counties in North Central Florida (21 via cable). To honor the milestone, Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and political editor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, will give a special presentation at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. [...]
Visit http://www.urel.ufl.edu/production/photography/multimedia.html after 4 p.m. for a professional photo slideshow of today’s SEC pre-game festivities. On Saturday, an updated slideshow will provide images from the game.
The 2008 SEC Championship Game at the Georgia Dome tomorrow between the Florida Gators and Alabama Crimson Tide will determine the 2008 football champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). To [...]
Randell Alexander, chief of the College of Medicine’s division of child protection and forensic pediatrics in Jacksonville, was quoted in a Dec. 2 story in Discover magazine on shaken baby syndrome.
Economist David Denslow was quoted in a Nov. 30 St. Petersburg Times story about a meeting of economists and their predictions for Florida’s future.
Religion professor Bron Taylor was quoted in a Nov. 26 Associated Press story about how radical environmentalists were protesting certain solutions to global warming.