Chris McCarty, director of UF’s Survey Research Center at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, was quoted in a Nov. 25 Associated Press story about the November consumer confidence report in Florida. The story was the result of a News Bureau news release.
An op-ed column by botany professor Francis E. “Jack” Putz about the disease threatening the Sabal palmetto was published Nov. 20 in The Miami Herald and The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. The column was edited and placed by the UF News Bureau’s Op-Ed Service.
Shelby M.C. Davis, founder of the Davis United World College Scholars Program, will be recognized as an Honorary Alumnus and speak to Davis Scholars.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Competition for resources can cause animal species in an ecological community to evolve away from each other, becoming less similar — but University of Florida research shows that sometimes mutual benefit causes just the opposite.
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Margaret Werth, author and University of Delaware associate professor of art history, will give a lecture at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20 at the Harn Museum of Art during Museum Nights.
Titled “Modernity and the Face,” the lecture will feature discussion of her current project, a book studying representations of the human face in painting, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The wild pea pod is big and heavy, with seemingly little prayer of escaping the shade of its parent plant.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida teams received $10,000 grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop sustainability projects at opposite ends of the Earth: improving a reservoir that purifies stored rainfall for the village of Sissene, Burkina Faso, in Western Africa and measuring cellulosic ethanol production made from Florida pine forests.
The grants [...]
Radar can catch you for speeding and one day it might save your baby if he or she stops breathing. University of Florida engineers have developed a new system that uses radar technology to assess a person’s vital signs from a few feet away.
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Radar can catch you for speeding and one day it might save your baby if he or she stops breathing. University of Florida engineers have developed a new system that uses radar technology to assess a person’s vital signs from a few feet away.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Radar — the technology that tracks enemy bombers and hurricanes — is now being employed to detect another danger: when babies stop breathing.