David Freeman, an equine surgeon and professor in the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named interim chairman of the college’s department of large animal clinical sciences.
Freeman will oversee the teaching, research, extension and service missions of the UF veterinary college in the primary areas of equine, food animal, aquatic animal and [...]
Geography professor Grant Thrall was quoted in a March 15 Sarasota Herald-Tribune story about efforts by the state of Arizona to lure Major League Baseball teams to move spring training facilities from Florida.
Physicist Jacobo Konigsberg was quoted in a March 15 Washington Post column about a milestone in the search for the Higgs boson at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Chris McCarty, director of the Survey Research Center, was quoted in a March 15 St. Petersburg Times business column about whether the economy has reached the bottom yet.
Law professor Danaya Wright was quoted in a March 17 Bloomberg News story about the possibility that Ruth Madoff’s estate in Palm Beach might be shielded from creditors because she received a homestead exemption. Madoff is the wife of admitted swindler Bernard Madoff.
President Bernie Machen and presidents of 10 other Florida universities wrote a March 17 Miami Herald op-ed column about the need for universities to determine their own tuition. The column was edited by the News Bureau’s Op-Ed service. It also appeared in many other Florida newspapers, including the St. Petersburg Times, The Gainesville Sun and [...]
Open letter from Florida’s 11 university presidents
Food and resource economist Alan Hodges was quoted in a March 20 Associated Press story about the Miami International Agriculture and Cattle Show.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida senior David Cohen is one of 16 people to create a television commercial chosen by Hardees for prime-time television. The ad, currently airing, promotes the restaurant’s new, smaller Thickburger sandwich.
The advertisement features the words “No room for dessert” above a regular-size black Angus beef Thickburger on the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The winners of the 2009 ADDY Awards, a program of the Advertising Federation of Gainesville, were recently announced.
The University of Florida’s “When Did You Become a Gator?” television commercial, produced by University Relations, won a gold ADDY in the category of Public Service TV. The commercial also earned the Larry Edwards [...]