GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Spring 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series continues its environmental theme Wednesday with a presentation by University of Florida associate professor of history Jack E. Davis. The theme for this semester is “Florida, Water, and the Environment,” and includes talks by policy leaders, journalists and academics.
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Consumers in Florida are guarding their wallets and they’re equally guarded about their confidence in the economy and their own finances. Here’s UF researcher Chris McCarty discussing February’s consumer confidence report.
WHO: Officials from the University of Florida, the state of Florida, the city of St. Augustine and the National Park Service.
WHAT: “Strategy to Reality: Implementing the St. Augustine Historic Area Strategic Plan.” Presentations will discuss the potential economic and educational impacts of implementing the strategic plan to improve 33 historic properties in St. Augustine. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The department of tourism, recreation and sport management at the University of Florida is offering students a rare opportunity to study abroad in Antarctica, the coldest, driest, highest, quietest, most remote and least understood continent on Earth.
“Very few opportunities exist for college students to engage in experiential education in Antarctica,” said [...]
A University of Florida study was cited in Jane Brody’s Feb. 10 New York Times column about the excess of sugar in Americans’ diet. See related release.
Archaeologist Susan Gillespie was quoted in a Feb. 10 Associated Press story about the discovery of a mass grave in Mexico that may hold the skeletal remains of the Aztecs who fought conquistador Hernan Cortes.
Physicist Jacobo Konigsberg was quoted in a Feb. 19 Associated Press story about the race between the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Tevatron accelerator and the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to find evidence of a hypothetical particle called the Higgs boson, better known as the “God Particle.” Konigsberg works at Fermilab.
Shark expert George Burgess was quoted in a Feb. 19 Associated Press story about the annual report from the International Shark File, which is housed at UF. The report was the subject of numerous stories worldwide. The stories were the result of a News Bureau news release.
Lynne Holt, a policy analyst with UF’s Public Utility Research Center, was quoted in a Feb. 20 Reuters story about the potential impact of the $787 billion economic stimulus package on investments in high-speed Internet.