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Published: July 31 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The weak housing market is to blame for Florida's one-point drop in consumer confidence to 81 in July at a time when the national index is on the rise, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: July 31 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine officials are moving forward with plans to build a new Veterinary Education and Clinical Research Center, a $58 million facility that will include a major expansion of UF’s small animal hospital.
Published: July 31 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Hear the word fungus, and mushrooms and mold might leap to mind. But the University of Florida is about to house the nation’s first research repository for one species that has nothing to do with pizza toppings or marbling blue cheese: Aspergillus, which increasingly poses a major health threat to cancer patients and transplant recipients.
Published: July 30 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It was always thought to be restricted to everyday types, with no magnetic sorts allowed in the door.
Published: July 27 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Discovery Channel will feature University of Florida shark expert George Burgess in two programs during its 20th anniversary Shark Week beginning Sunday through Aug. 4.
Published: July 24 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Imagine a chip, strategically placed in the brain, that could prevent epileptic seizures or allow someone who has lost a limb to control an artificial arm just by thinking about it.
Published: July 21 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Harn Museum of Art will be open until 10 p.m. on Thursday for Museum Nights, featuring the Oscar-nominated documentary ”Buena Vista Social Club” at 7 p.m.
Published: July 20 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The chairman of the University of Florida’s psychiatry department is taking a leave of absence to fill a key leadership position for the National Institute of Mental Health.
Published: July 19 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have successfully used molecular probes to detect subtle differences in leukemia cells from patient samples, an achievement that could lead to more effective ways to diagnose and treat cancer.
Published: July 19 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA) recently awarded University of Florida law Professor Christopher L. Peterson its Consumer Advocate of the Year Award for 2007 for his research on predatory lending and his advocacy for legislation adopted last year by Congress that caps the interest rate lenders may charge military personnel.
Published: July 18 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rongling Wu is out to prove Mark Twain clearly didn't know a darn thing about genetics.
Published: July 18 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida College of Nursing Associate Professor Meredeth Rowe has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Published: July 18 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Three University of Florida College of Dentistry faculty members have been elected to membership to the national dental honor society, Omicron Kappa Upsilon.
Published: July 17 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lionel J. Dubay, director of the O’Connell Center for 22 years, has been appointed director of the business services division at the University of Florida.
Published: July 17 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — WUFT-FM has resumed streaming its air signal over the Internet, but it is conditional because of proposed changes in how radio stations pay royalties.
Published: July 16 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– For turn-of-the-century, small-town inhabitants, the town band was a familiar fixture. Harper's Weekly estimates there were 10,000 such bands in the United States in 1889. Made up of ordinary citizens such as the hardware clerk and the feed merchant, their enthusiasm often outweighed their musical abilities. That didn't keep them from playing everything from Sousa to opera to works from Tin Pan Alley at saloon openings, funerals, political rallies and parades.
Published: July 16 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida engineering team on Sunday won an international robotic submarine competition for the third year in a row, beating 27 other teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech and Cornell and other universities.
Published: July 16 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– For turn-of-the-century, small-town inhabitants, the town band was a familiar fixture. Harper’s Weekly estimates there were 10,000 such bands in the United States in 1889. Made up of ordinary citizens such as the hardware clerk and the feed merchant, their enthusiasm often outweighed their musical abilities. That didn’t keep them from playing everything from Sousa to opera to works from Tin Pan Alley at saloon openings, funerals, political rallies and parades.
Published: July 13 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Academic & Professional Assembly will host a Suicide Awareness and Intervention training from 3 to 4:30 p.m. July 31, in Room 282 of the Reitz Student Union.
Published: July 12 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Hispanic women with hypertension and coronary artery disease respond better to drug regimens aimed at controlling high blood pressure than non-Hispanic white women, University of Florida researchers report.
Published: July 11 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shadow Dance Theatre, now in its sixth summer season of thought-provoking original work at the University of Florida, offers “Vintage,” a compelling new production, Aug. 2-5.
Published: July 11 2007
Caring but careless boaters have apparently become the biggest threat to Florida’s manatees. University of Florida researchers tracked the speeds of boaters through manatee zones in one high-traffic Florida county. Results show more than half, fifty-five percent didn’t comply with signs ordering them to slow down. Yet when UF researcher John Jett sent them follow-up surveys, eighty-four percent claimed they did.
Published: July 10 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Student Government will host Museum Nights featuring free admission to the award-winning Butterfly Rainforest and a provocative Cuban film from 5 to 10 p.m. on Thursday at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Harn Museum of Art in the UF Cultural Plaza.
Published: July 10 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Swimming is good, clean summer fun for small children—but University of Florida experts caution that swim diapers won’t necessarily keep the water clean, and that could spell trouble if sick kids go in the pool.
Published: July 10 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Roger D. Wray, a clinical associate professor of community dentistry and behavioral science, has been appointed program director of the University of Florida College of Dentistry Faculty Practice. Wray previously served as residency program director for the college’s clinical program in Apopka.
Published: July 10 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — William P. McArthur, a professor of oral biology and director of the University of Florida’s Periodontal Disease Research Center, was appointed the College of Dentistry’s associate dean for faculty affairs, effective June 29. In this new position he advises faculty and college and campus administrators on matters affecting faculty and provides administrative support for the faculty’s role in shared governance.
Published: July 10 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Matthew Dennis, a clinical associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery and diagnostic sciences, has been awarded the Florida Dental Association’s Dental Educator Award.
Published: July 10 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lynne Thomas Gordon, a nationally recognized health-care executive, has been named an executive in residence for the department of health services research, management and policy at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions.
Published: July 9 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lonnie Ingram, director of the University of Florida's Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels, will join celebrities including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Florida conference on global climate change on Thursday and Friday in Miami.
Published: July 9 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Steve Dorman, dean of the College of Health and Human Performance will receive the 2007 William A. Howe Award at the American School Health Association national convention being held July 9-13, 2007, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Published: July 9 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The world's largest telescope will take its first peek into the heavens this week, ushering the University of Florida into the top ranks of the "big observers," as one astronomy professor put it.
Published: July 9 2007
UF Bridges will update the myUFL portal from PeopleSoft version 8.45 to version 8.48 on Saturday, July 14.
Published: July 9 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Blue Key’s annual production, Gator Growl, has showcased some of the top comedic talent in the past; this year will be no exception.
Published: July 7 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Now that the second field season of excavating fossils at a site west of Gainesville has ended, Florida Museum of Natural History paleontologists are gearing up to begin work on the approximately 220 skeletons and literally thousands of specimens uncovered between mid-September 2006 and May.
Published: July 6 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the world of popular music, no one rivals The Beatles. When the group first formed as a garage band in Liverpool, England, no one had an inkling that it would become one of the most popular acts of all time, leading the "British Invasion" of America in the mid-1960s. Its musical legacy is so great that The Beatles continues to earn fans the world over, even though they broke up nearly 40 years ago.
Published: July 6 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students will be admitted free with their Gator 1 card to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s award-winning Butterfly Rainforest from 5 to 7:30 p.m. July 12.
Published: July 5 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have identified a set of proteins that appear to signal the presence of bladder cancer, a discovery they hope will lead to a simple, fast and noninvasive test that can detect the disease early.
Published: July 5 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — And you thought kudzu was bad.
Published: July 3 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum reopens one of its most popular family activity areas today, a new and expanded Discovery Room. Previously open only during the summer, the Discovery Room will provide ongoing, interactive family activities daily until 4:30 p.m. through December 2008.
Published: July 3 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Caring but careless boaters are the greatest threat to Florida’s manatees, according to a new University of Florida study that caught more than half of boat drivers speeding through conservation zones despite their professed support for the endangered animals.
Published: July 2 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is instituting a campuswide hiring freeze effective today in response to a projected deficit that could range from $20 million to $30 million caused by a significant decline in revenue and rising expenses.
Published: July 2 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An endangered “giant” Ozark salamander is suffering an alarming population collapse, and a new Florida Museum of Natural History-led study shows illegal collecting, mostly attributed to the pet trade, contributed to the decline of these imperiled amphibians that can grow to 29 inches in length.
Published: July 9 2007
Hala Azzam, of the University of Maryland will present “Public Health in the 21st Century: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Global Health” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, in Room G316 of the HPNP Complex on the UF campus. The lecture, sponsored by the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ department of epidemiology and biostatistics, is free and open to the public.
Published: July 9 2007
Mark Gold, chief of addiction medicine at UF’s McKnight Brain Institute, was quoted in a July 9 USA Today story about whether food addiction is a cause of obesity.
Published: July 11 2007
An annual survey by UF and the National Retail Federation about retail theft was cited in a July 11 Associated Press story about Wal-Mart’s decision to lower the age at which it recommends stores prosecute first-time shoplifters to 16 from 18.
Published: July 14 2007
U.F. geographer Stephen Golant was quoted in a July 14 Chicago Tribune story about the trend of Florida’s senior citizens moving back to their original states because of frail health, poor finances or death of a spouse.
Published: July 16 2007
The “first light” opening ceremony of the Gran Telescopio Canarias in Spain’s Canary Islands was the subject of an Associated Press story July 16. UF is the only U.S. institution with a stake in the massive telescope. The story was the result of a news release.
Published: July 16 2007
A July 16 Los Angeles Times story announced the first-place win of UF’s Subjugator in the 10th annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Student Competition, sponsored by the Navy and the unmanned vehicle industry.
Published: July 20 2007
David Denslow, a UF economist, was quoted in a July 20 Bloomberg News story about how the glut of condominiums in Miami could push Florida’s economy to the brink of a recession.
Published: July 23 2007
A July 23 Associated Press story detailed plans for the University of Florida to manage 31 historic buildings in St. Augustine, Fla.
Published: July 23 2007
Research on boater behavior and manatees done by UF doctoral candidate John Jett was the subject of an editorial in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on July 23. The editorial was the result of a news release.
Published: July 24 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Jose E. Medina, former dean of the University of Florida College of Dentistry and UF assistant vice president for facilities planning and operations, died Thursday (July 19). He was 81.
Published: July 24 2007
Computer engineering Professor Sumi Helal was quoted in a July 24 Miami Herald story about the development of software and hardware that enables devices in a “smart house” to communicate with each other and send data to a third party.
The story was the result of a news release.
Published: July 24 2007
Jacobo Konigsberg, a UF professor of physics, was quoted in a July 24 New York Times story about the race among physicists to understand a legendary particle that is known colloquially as the Higgs boson and sometimes called the “God particle.” The release was related to a News Bureau tip sheet.
Published: July 24 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Always on, connected, cheap and on sale everywhere.
Published: July 25 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It came to him in a dream.
Published: July 25 2007
Criminology Professor Richard Hollinger was quoted in a July 25 MSNBC.com story about Wal-Mart’s effort to reduce shoplifting.
Published: July 25 2007
Toxicologist Bruce Goldberger was quoted in a July 25 Times-Picayune story about the use of human tissue to analyze the bodies of people who died at a hospital after Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans.
Published: July 26 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The newly renovated Library West now ranks as one of the most environmentally friendly buildings on campus.
Published: July 26 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Blow fly maggots are one of the best tools forensic entomologists have for estimating when a person died—but a University of Florida researcher says current methods should be revised to account for a phenomenon that can skew results.
Published: July 26 2007
A study of the impact of height on income done by management Professor Timothy Judge was cited in a July 26 London Times. The story was related to a news release.