GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eastside High School’s Students Together for Autism Research, also called STAR, will host the 2nd Annual Autism Awareness 5K Walk-Run on Feb. 28.
All proceeds will go to the University of Florida Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, also known as CARD.
The event will begin at 9 a.m. at [...]
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The recession may be responsible for a slump of a different sort: an unexpected dive in shark attacks, says a University of Florida researcher.
Shark attacks worldwide in 2008 dipped to their lowest level in five years, a sign that Americans may be forgoing vacation trips to the beach, said George Burgess, ichthyologist [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida officials are making every effort to notify more than 97,200 people that an intruder gained access to a computer system containing files with their personal information.
The files included the names and Social Security numbers of students, faculty and staff who used the “Grove” computer system between 1996 and 2009. [...]
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It turns out there may be one potential positive result of a worldwide recession, a big decline in shark attacks.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Doctors can use a patient’s genetic information to more accurately prescribe doses of a commonly used blood-thinning drug whose potency and side effects vary greatly from one person to the next, reports an international team of medical scientists including researchers from the University of Florida.
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The establishment of the President’s Council on Diversity recently has been announced. The council has been charged with identifying ways to increase the diversity of University of Florida faculty, staff and students, including gathering and analyzing diversity data at the college and departmental levels. The committee’s goal is to help accomplish academic excellence within the [...]
This spring, UF Purchasing will introduce myUF Market, a new purchasing/procurement system for the University of Florida. The new system is expected to provide a user-friendly online marketplace that is designed to streamline the way UF departments purchase goods and services. The adoption of myUF Market represents UF’s ongoing commitment to initiatives that strategically reduce [...]
Larry A. DiMatteo, Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law & Legal Studies, recently was granted the “2008 Best Paper Award” by the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB). DiMatteo is a professor and former Department of Management chair in the Warrington College of Business Administration.
The winning paper, co-authored with Harvard Law School’s [...]
Three of 12 experts appointed to a national task force on America’s food safety hail from The Gator Nation.
Task force members include the University of Florida’s Douglas Archer, IFAS associate dean for research, Martha Rhodes Roberts, IFAS special assistant to the director of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and dean for research, and Glenn [...]