Snapshot
Published: February 28 2006
Published: February 28 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s consumer confidence fell eight points in February to 87, reflecting pessimism about higher gas prices and rising interest rates, which are beginning to hurt housing sales, refinancing and home equity loans, University of Florida economists report.
Published: February 27 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A cut can be life-threatening for people with hemophilia, whose bodies don’t produce enough of a protein that prevents prolonged bleeding.
Published: February 26 2006
From fire ants to Formosan termites to water-sopping Melaleuca trees, hundreds of invasive plants and animals threaten Florida’s economy, agriculture and environment.
Published: February 24 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History invites students in grades 6-8 to take a walk on the wild side in its "Where the Wild Wood Grows" class 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb 25.
Published: February 24 2006
Spring 2006 elections for Student Government offices will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 28 and March 1.
Published: February 24 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Olga Palagia, who specializes in classical archaeology, will lecture at the University of Florida on “New Perspectives on Macedonian Painting,” at 5 p.m. Feb. 27, at the Fine Arts Building B, room 105. The event is free and open to the public.
Published: February 24 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Wine enthusiasts can once again raise their glasses in support of North Central Florida’s public radio stations at “A Celebration of Wine,” the 17th annual benefit wine tasting and auction to be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the University of Florida’s Reitz Student Union Ballroom.
Published: February 23 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida will hold its 55th annual conference Thursday through Saturday. The theme of the conference is "Alternative Visions of Development: Rural Social Movements in Latin America."
Published: February 23 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Engineers have found a way to pinpoint and identify the tiny iron oxide particles associated with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases in the brain.
Published: February 23 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Martin Gold, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Florida, has been named the executive director of the Florida Community Design Center.
Published: February 22 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida scientists have found that people have an ancient skeleton in their closets — a skeleton personified today by a jawless, eel-like fish.
Published: February 22 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — David Allison, an expert on obesity and director of the Clinical Nutrition Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will be the featured speaker Feb. 22 for the 2006 York Distinguished Lecturer Series at the University of Florida.
Published: February 22 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla.— One of the country’s most successful trial attorneys is again providing major financial support to help his alma mater train law students in state-of-the-art facilities.
Published: February 22 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The UF MOD Project dancers will perform at the Harn Museum of Art at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The contemporary dance repertory ensemble from the University of Florida’s School of Theatre and Dance fuses dance, physical theater, art and technology.
Published: February 22 2006
The Dean of Students Office Disability Resource Center recently moved to a new, larger location and expanded services for students.
Published: February 22 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dr. James P. Thompson has been named interim dean of the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. He began serving in that role Feb. 20.
Published: February 22 2006
WHAT: The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s philanthropic affiliate, will present a $50,000 grant to the UF Speech and Hearing Clinic to provide speech-language services to uninsured adult clients in Alachua and surrounding counties.
Published: February 21 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – An exhibition of highlights from the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries' Caribbean archival and library materials will open Feb. 24 at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in Miami.
Published: February 21 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Giving employees a built-in excuse for lousy performance in humdrum or nasty tasks also gives them a way out of doing a good job, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: February 21 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -– Continuing the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the genesis of the Grateful Dead, Dark Star Orchestra presents its critically acclaimed live performance at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21.
Published: February 21 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – People with autistic family members are often full of questions.
Published: February 20 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Despite progress in other fields, women represent less than 10 percent of the engineering workforce, and a new book aimed at increasing their numbers pays homage to four University of Florida faculty members.
Published: February 20 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The spate of devastating hurricanes should not deter Florida’s population growth, which is expected to increase steadily over the next quarter century with the fastest growth occurring in metropolitan fringe areas, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: February 17 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Museum of Natural History Curator of Archaeology Jerald T. Milanich will share stories and antics from his newly released book from 2 to 3 p.m. Feb. 19 as part of the Florida Museum’s Science Sunday lecture series. Following the lecture, Milanich will offer a book signing. Books are available for purchase in the Florida Museum’s Collectors Shop.
Published: February 17 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The 57th annual MFA@FLA Writers’ Festival, to be held Feb. 17-18, will feature Jo Ann Beard, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby and Scott Spencer.
Published: February 16 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida physicist has been elected as the leader of the largest active high energy experiment in the world. Jacobo Konigsberg will head the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration for the next two years.
Published: February 16 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Explore the mysteries of the jungle with University of Florida forest ecologist Jack Putz as he discuses jungle representations in "Tarzan of the Apes," starting at 7 p.m. Feb. 16.
Published: February 16 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance will host a seminar today and a conference Friday.
Published: February 16 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Welcome to the bug-of-the-month club. Thanks to Florida’s balmy climate and popularity as a tourist destination, at least one new and unwanted insect pest hitchhikes its way into the state every month, according to University of Florida researchers.
Published: February 16 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Daniel Simone can’t predict the winner of Sunday’s Daytona 500, but he can make an educated guess.
Published: February 15 2006
LAKE CITY, Fla. — When Civil War buffs commemorate the struggle between North and South at the Battle of Olustee re-enactment this weekend, a University of Florida expert will be on hand to demonstrate how Rebs and Yanks faced a common foe – insects.
Published: February 15 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida will celebrate its 75th anniversary at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in Emerson Alumni Hall on the UF campus.
Published: February 14 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Carol Browner, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, are among more than 50 experts to headline the nation’s first conference combining humanities, law, policy, children and the environment.
Published: February 14 2006
The Inter-Residence Hall Association (IRHA) at the University of Florida has a lot more to be recognized for than just a few programs on campus. After winning the Student Award for Leadership Training (S.A.L.T.) regionally on Nov. 5, IRHA once again proved to be the best candidate, winning the national award on Jan. 18 as well.
Published: February 14 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida political science professor has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar award for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Published: February 14 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Children living in the South are up to three times more likely to battle poor health and its consequences — including obesity, teen pregnancy and death — than those in all other regions of the United States, even if they receive the same medical care, a new University of Florida study reveals.
Published: February 13 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Assertive and even aggressive human behavior could explain why shark attacks worldwide dipped last year, continuing a five-year downward trend in close encounters with the oceanic predators, new University of Florida research suggests.
Published: February 13 2006
The UF Office for Student Financial Affairs has declared Feb. 13-17 as Financial Aid Awareness Week and plans several events to help students.
Published: February 10 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — They may not be able to make love last, but a team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how to at least make the flowers go the distance.
Published: February 9 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida engineer is the latest researcher to design a tiny, easy-to-manufacture motion sensor, a development that could help popularize the sensors as standard equipment in personal electronics, medical devices and other applications.
Published: February 9 2006
The next program in the John Gray Fund for Excellence Distinguished Lecture Series features Ann M. Bartuska, deputy chief for research and development, USDA Forest Service, on March 28.
Published: February 8 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida senior Justin Bangs has been selected as one of 40 Gates Cambridge Scholars from the United States to study for a master’s degree of philosophy, also known as an M. Phil degree, in Environment, Society and Development in the department of geography at the University of Cambridge on a full scholarship. An Orlando native, Bangs is majoring in political science and history with a minor in women’s studies at UF.
Published: February 7 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Harn Museum of Art has launched an innovative outreach program for senior citizens called Art for Life. The program gives Alachua County seniors unable to visit the Harn an opportunity to benefit from the museum's offerings through educational activities and visuals brought to their location.
Published: February 7 2006
“Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power,” a documentary produced by the University of Florida Documentary Institute, will be aired nationally on PBS stations at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7.
Published: February 6 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Sharks are known for their almost uncanny ability to detect electrical signals while hunting and navigating.
Published: February 6 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History will release live butterflies into its Butterfly Rainforest exhibit at 2 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting, beginning Saturday, Feb. 11.
Published: February 6 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Susan Langdon, who specializes in early Greek pottery, sculpture and iconography, will lecture at the University of Florida on “It Takes a Polis: The Art of Adolescence in Early Greece,” at 8 p.m. Feb. 7, at the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Published: February 3 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History will offer the "Amazing Adaptations" exploration series this spring where K-5 students can visit exhibits, make crafts and stretch their imaginations in hands-on classes.
Published: February 3 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — How did personally identifiable consumer information about millions of Americans become a product corporations can buy and sell? What are companies doing to prevent information about their customers from being stolen by hackers? What laws should governments pass to require businesses to protect you from identity theft?
Published: February 2 2006
HAGUE, Fla. — As the nation looks to agriculture for renewable fuels from crops and other sources, University of Florida researchers have developed a manure management system that produces energy, saves valuable nutrients for fertilizer, cuts greenhouse gas emissions and stops offensive odors.
Published: February 2 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dedee DeLongpré, the former executive director of Sustainable Alachua County, has been named the new director of the University of Florida’s Office of Sustainability, Ed Poppell, vice president for finance and administration, announced today.
Published: February 2 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida Hough Program in Finance continues to grow, thanks to several recent major private gifts to the program totaling $600,000.
Published: February 1 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Much as the famed starship Enterprise would deploy a deflector shield to evade enemy attack, tumor cells are capable of switching on a molecular force field of their own to fend off treatments aimed at killing them. Now University of Florida researchers have found a chink in their armor.
Published: February 16 2006
Alan W. Hodges, an economist, was quoted in a Feb. 16 Washington Post (circ. 772,535) story about the growing popularity of professionally designed home landscaping.
Published: February 15 2006
A study by finance professor Jay Ritter was cited in a Feb. 15 story in the Wall Street Journal (circ. 1.1 million) about how initial public stock offerings rarely surprise chief financial officers. The Journal is a paid subscription so no link is available.
Published: February 2 2006
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in a Feb. 2 USA Today (circ. 2.1 million) story about the lack of interest among investors in Internet-related businesses.
Published: January 20 2006
Jeff Wade, director of the environmental division of the University of Florida Center for Governmental Responsibility was quoted in a Feb. 20 Tampa Tribune (circ. 313,693) story about new development in hurricane-prone areas.
Published: February 15 2006
Dr. Elias Sarkis, associate clinical professor of child psychiatry, was quoted in a Feb. 15 St. Petersburg Times (circ. 442,348) story about warnings on ADHD medications.
Published: February 6 2006
Research by criminologist Alex Piquero showing that youngsters who hit puberty earlier than their peers may have a higher risk of later being victimized was the subject of a Feb. 6 story on the Reuters news service. The story was the result of a news release.
Published: February 20 2006
Marian Limacher, a cardiologist, was quoted in a Feb. 20 Philadelphia Inquirer story about the Women’s Health Initiative.
Published: February 5 2006
Linguistics professor Diana Boxer was quoted in a Feb. 5 Philadelphia Inquirer (circ. 376,493) story about whether women take their husbands surnames. The quote was the result of a news release.
Published: February 7 2006
PBS’ airing of “Negroes with Guns,” a documentary produced by Sandra Dickson and Churchill L. Roberts, co-directors of the UF Documentary Institute, was the subject of a Feb. 7 story in the New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) A similar story ran Feb. 3 on the Associated Press national wire.
Published: February 7 2006
PBS’ airing of “Negroes with Guns,” a documentary produced by Sandra Dickson and Churchill L. Roberts, co-directors of the UF Documentary Institute, was the subject of a Feb. 7 story in the New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) A similar story ran Feb. 3 on the Associated Press national wire.
Published: February 6 2006
UF’s Hillel Jewish student center was the focus of a Feb. 6 story in the Palm Beach Post (circ. 222,833) about UF having the largest Jewish student population in the country.
Published: February 1 2006
Dr. Carl J. Pepine, chief of cardiovascular medicine, was quoted in a Feb. 1 New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) story about a study on women and heart disease.
Published: February 15 2006
Martin Cohn, a developmental biologist, was quoted in a Feb. 15 National Geographic News story about his research into the origin of shark’s electric sense. The story was the result of a news release.
Published: February 21 2006
Shark expert George Burgess was quoted in a Feb. 21 story in National Geographic News about his annual study on the number of shark attacks worldwide. The story was the result of a news release.
Published: February 26 2006
An opinion piece by President Bernie Machen on UF’s efforts to create a center to study emerging pathogens ran Feb. 26 in the Miami Herald, the Tallahassee Democrat and the Gainesville Sun. The piece was placed by UF’s Op-Ed Service.
Published: February 17 2006
Economics professor David Figlio was quoted in a Feb. 17 Los Angeles Times (circ. 955,211) story about rising tuition at private schools.
Published: February 23 2006
Sometimes the line separating idiom from idiocy is a thin one. Such is the case with Jeb Bush’s latest accusations that Common Cause has been squirreling away its donors in its laudable effort to reform Florida’s unfairly gerrymandered legislative and congressional districts.
Published: February 9 2006
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Students can learn more about internships and available jobs by attending the College of Health and Human Performance’s First Annual Sports Business Career Forum at the Florida Gym from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday.
Published: February 22 2006
Samim Anghaie, professor of nuclear engineering, was quoted in a Feb. 22 Chicago Tribune (circ. 613,509) story about plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants.
Published: February 13 2006
Entomologist J. Howard Frank was quoted in a Feb. 13 Associated Press state wire story about a Central American weevil invading Florida.