University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — You could say that the odds of seeing it were astronomical.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians sank four points this month, after jumping four points to 78 in May, according to a University of Florida survey.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida officials are notifying 220 former law school students and applicants who had sought a roommate online in the early 2000s through the Levin College of Law that their Social Security numbers were accessible on the Web.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.— This summer the Harn Museum of Art explores the beauty of female vitality as women age in the “Anne Noggle: Reality and the Blind Eye of Truth” exhibition.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill temporarily worsened existing manmade problems in Louisiana’s salt marshes such as erosion, but there may be cause for optimism, according to a new study.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Personalized medicine — a concept in which an understanding of a patient’s genetic makeup is used to enhance treatment — has arrived at UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center.

Plans currently call for UF work and school activities to remain on a normal summer break week schedule.
Individuals should continue to monitor local media for changes in Debby’s forecast and potential severe weather, and those in Florida’s Panhandle should follow instructions issued by their local emergency management agencies.
WUFT offers a tropical weather update on its [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — NASA’s Kepler mission, along with astronomers from Harvard, University of Washington and University of Florida, has discovered a rocky planet orbiting very close to a much larger planet around the same star, about 1,200 light years from Earth, according to research being published online today in Science Express.

INESVILLE, Fla. — Planets as big as Earth but smaller than Neptune are likely even more common in our galaxy than previously believed, according to a statistical analysis of recent results from NASA’s Kepler mission.

Three UF employees — Joseph Fantone, senior associate dean for educational affairs at the College of Medicine; Donna Parker, associate dean for diversity and health equity at the College of Medicine; and Albert Matheny, director of academic advising in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — were quoted in a June 7 Diverse Issues [...]