GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Some experts are challenging the widespread notion of an overall worker shortage in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math, but the paucity of schoolteachers in those vital subject areas is well documented.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumed by 3 billion people, rice is arguably the world’s most important food staple, and one reason for its popularity is that rice can be grown under flooded conditions that suppress weeds, making cultivation easier.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With graduations and the summer work season approaching, more than 6,000 Gators are expected to be job-hunting at the University of Florida Spring 2013 Career Showcase next week. More than 200 employers will gather at the O’Connell Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 5-6 to meet potential employees and interns.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A revamped People Awareness Week at the University of Florida debuts Sunday in partnership with the Martin Luther King Steering Committee. The program is hosted by the department of housing and residence education.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida scientist has discovered a record biodiversity hotspot in Spain for 100-million-year-old crustaceans with possible implications for present-day species living in reefs, which are declining worldwide.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The UF-HHMI Science for Life Program and the College of Fine Arts will hold the 2013 Creativity in the Arts and Sciences Event, known as CASE, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Reitz Student Union Grand Ballroom & McGuire Pavilion.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will host an international conference on “Emergent Brazil” Feb. 14-15. The conference is jointly sponsored by the UF Center for Latin America Studies and the Center for the Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History, part of the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will host Journalism Interactive 2013, a conference for educators, journalists, scholars and students to explore how journalism schools are meeting the challenge of the digital age, Feb. 8-9.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Regional Transit System has partnered with American Sign Language, or ASL, to provide information for the area’s hearing impaired.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning sixth annual research showcase kicks off at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 1 in the gallery in the Architecture Building. In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act, the showcase will explore how being part of a land grant university has affected research in the college throughout the years. This year’s theme is, “Crossing Disciplines: DCP in a Land Grant Institution.”