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Published: February 25 1999
GAINESVILLE — Several hundred thousand elderly Americans living in federally-subsidized apartment housing could lose their independence as the new millennium begins because of funding shortfalls, according to a University of Florida study being released next week.
Published: February 22 1999
GAINESVILLE — Conflicts and violence in the schools are growing problems in society, but University of Florida researchers have found a way to slow their growth.
Published: February 19 1999
GAINESVILLE—Fears that zebra mussels could become the next nuisance pest to invade Florida have prompted University of Florida officials to start broadcasting warnings to visitors about the meddlesome mollusks.
Published: February 19 1999
GAINESVILLE—University of Florida physicians have successfully treated a group of patients suffering from a rare skull-base tumor using an advanced radiation treatment system.
Published: February 18 1999
GAINESVILLE—A University of Florida physician today used a new method to measure cardiac blood flow in intensive care patients, marking a surgical first in North America that is expected to revolutionize critical care.
Published: February 17 1999
GAINESVILLE — Single men at the University of Florida are going to be very happy, but they’re going to have to hit the books to keep up with the women.
Published: February 16 1999
GAINESVILLE — Florida’s population broke 15 million in 1998 as the state went country with people moving away from traditionally high-growth metropolitan areas, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: February 11 1999
GAINESVILLE — There are twice as many women in the elementary school principalship as there were a decade ago, but job stress and responsibilities have increased, leading principals to retire earlier and earlier, a University of Florida researcher found.
Published: February 10 1999
LIVE OAK — The Florida vegetable industry is moving under cover.
Published: February 9 1999
GAINESVILLE — For the third year in a row, a University of Florida researcher has won a prestigious presidential award for outstanding young scientists and will go to the White House to be recognized.
Published: February 5 1999
GAINESVILLE — Out of the mouths of long-dead animals come stories of vanished landscapes, ancient weather and the way the creatures lived and died.
Published: February 5 1999
GAINESVILLE — A group of University of Florida engineers is the first to develop an important building block for a new breed of electronic switches likely to provide smooth, uninterrupted electricity in the coming era of utility deregulation.
Published: February 3 1999
GAINESVILLE —Offbeat questions are nothing new when the folks at the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research pick up the phone.
Published: February 24 1999
SARASOTA—Imagine you’re the captain of a charter vessel taking a bunch of anglers to sea for a day of fishing. They catch a beautiful grouper, but it’s a few inches undersize, so you have to take the fish off the line and throw it back.
Published: February 15 1999
GAINESVILLE — A recent University of Florida computer engineering graduate student has created a program that gives a computerized voice synthesizer the unusual ability to convey human emotional states including anger, sadness and fear.
Published: February 4 1999
GAINESVILLE–Gulf Coast sea oats are genetically different from sea oats on the Atlantic Coast, a University of Florida researcher has found.