Florida Master Gardener Coordinator Tom Wichman recently was recognized with two awards for his role as host of “Gardening in a Minute,” a radio program co-0produced by UF/IFAS Extension and WUFT-FM.
Wichman received a silver media award for on-air talent from the national Garden Writers Association. In addition, “Gardening in a Minute” won first place in [...]
Rachael Goodman, assistant director for doctoral services in the Career Resource Center and doctoral candidate in counselor education, has received the 2009 Dr. Daya and Mrs. Usha K. Sandhu Multicultural Counseling/Diversity Student Research Award from the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD), a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA). The award recognizes students [...]
For the second consecutive year, a Documentary Institute student thesis film earned the top Emmy honor. “Standard Deviation,” http//:www.StandardDeviation-TheMovie.com, co-directed by 2008 graduates Christopher Brannan and David Randag, was named the winner of the documentary category at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s 30th College Television Awards black-tie gala in Los Angeles.
Farouk Dey, senior associate director for employer relations in the Career Resource Center, has been given the 2009 NACE/SJC (Association of Colleges and Employers and the Spelman & Johnson Group) Rising Star Award.
The award recognizes an individual with strong leadership potential and contributions to both the career services profession and the National Association of Colleges [...]
University of Florida undergraduate nursing students only have to wait 10 more days to receive their hard-earned degrees during the College of Nursing commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. on May 1 at the Phillips Center.
For many of these soon-to-be graduates, the undergraduate experience included the usual experiences of college life, as well as hectic [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Maxine L. Margolis, professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Florida, was named a fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences today.
Margolis, also an adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University, is among 210 fellows and 19 foreign honorary members to join one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Three University of Florida students were named Goldwater Scholars for the 2009-2010 year by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
Mehrnoosh Arrar, Miorel Palii and Christopher Marth are three of only 278 students nationwide to receive the scholarship, which recognizes and awards sophomores and juniors who excel [...]
An op-ed column by student Kate Stein, a senior finance major, on how people shop for groceries was published in the April 16 New York Times.
Bruce Goldberger, director of toxicology, was quoted in an April 15 Nature story about concerns over the use of deuterated drugs.
Linguistics professor Ben Hebblethwaite was quoted in an April 15 Wall Street Journal article about a new Web site that tells users how to pronounce unusual surnames.