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Published: February 24 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida engineers have developed an environmentally friendly coating for hulls of ocean-going ships based on an unlikely source of inspiration: the shark.
Published: February 24 2005
The University of Florida has announced the six inaugural members to its new Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars. The members will serve three years as the advisory board for the University Center for Excellence in Teaching.
Published: February 23 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For young patients who grow to adulthood with a chronic illness, leaving behind the pediatrician who may have saved their lives can be a tough transition.
Published: February 23 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — After life-threatening maladies beset their family three times in eight years, a Palm City couple donated more than $800,000 to the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center.
Published: February 22 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s consumer confidence rose three points in February, reflecting the Sunshine State’s strong job growth during the past year and the resiliency of Florida consumers against high energy prices that have plagued consumers in other parts of the country, University of Florida economists report.
Published: February 10 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Chaos has its own internal order – and now a University of Florida researcher is harnessing those hidden patterns to create a first-of-its-kind, highly adaptable computer that could be as much as a hundred times faster than conventional computers.
Published: February 17 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida freshmen living in residence halls should obtain a vaccination for bacterial meningitis as soon as a new vaccine becomes available this spring.
Published: February 16 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Weight, cholesterol and blood pressure aside, women might be wise to factor in yet another barometer of heart health: the size and strength of their social circle.
Published: February 15 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scientists from the University of Florida and other Southeastern universities are helping farmers to get a jump on Mother Nature.
Published: February 14 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s active hurricane season last year spawned the perfect storms to reduce the Sunshine State’s number of shark attacks, which dipped to their lowest level in more than a decade and pulled down the national average as well, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: February 10 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Elderly people of modest means have few choices when it comes to finding an affordable assisted living facility in many communities, according to a new University of Florida study that shows a huge disparity in the availability of this popular long-term care alternative.
Published: February 7 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Using steps she says are applicable to any school, a University of Florida education professor has worked with teachers to help an urban elementary school deemed failing under state standards raise its test scores and make the A list.
Published: February 9 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida Trustee Albert W. Thweatt Sr. has resigned his position due to business commitments, board Chairman Manny Fernandez announced today.
Published: February 7 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Digging into the past is more than child’s play, says a University of Florida researcher whose study shows that archaeological finds of children’s artifacts reveal missing clues about the world they lived in.
Published: February 4 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida trustees Roland Daniels and Earl Powell have been reappointed to the board, Gov. Jeb Bush announced today.
Published: February 3 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The human mouth teems with millions of enamel-eroding, gum-inflaming microbes.
Published: February 1 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Football fans faced with a frosty pitcher of beer and a heaping platter of wings on Super Bowl Sunday often respond as if it were fourth-and-goal — they go for it.
GAINESVILLE, Fla.— They're often billed as "green" neighborhoods, but New Urbanist developments don't necessarily attract earth-friendly residents, a University of Florida study shows.
Published: February 22 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A clear cut "no" is seldom as effective as clever beating around the bush in helping teens to resist peer pressure that gets them into trouble, a new University of Florida study has found.
Published: February 10 2005
HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers are on a disease-fighting mission to ensure that the world's favorite confection -- chocolate -- will continue to be a Valentine's Day mainstay.
Published: February 17 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Mother's advice might be the antidote to intense media pressure for women to alter their breasts to meet images of perfection from Britney Spears to Victoria's Secret, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: February 8 2005
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An international team of scientists has used gene therapy in two separate studies to renew brain cells and restore normal movements in monkeys and rats with a drug-induced form of Parkinson's disease.