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Published: December 21 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The housing crisis, a declining stock market and higher gas prices are all to blame for a two-point drop in Florida’s consumer confidence to 74, its lowest level in more than five years, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: December 21 2007
Published: December 20 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With powerful instruments scouring the heavens, astronomers have found more than 240 planets in the past two decades, none likely to support Earth-like life.
Published: December 20 2007
Published: December 20 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees’ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by University of Florida and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and success of flowering plants for nearly 100 million years.
Published: December 19 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — America’s faltering labor movement will not survive unless unions do more to embrace blacks and other minority workers, says a University of Florida researcher and author of a new book.
Published: December 18 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Research by a University of Florida graduate student finds most state statutes designed to prevent criminals from profiting from telling the story of their crimes are ineffective and unconstitutional.
Published: December 18 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida engineering researcher is helping to pave the way for tiny implanted medical devices that could one day administer medicine to ill patients, help disabled people use artificial limbs or perform other therapeutic tasks within the body.
Published: December 18 2007
Published: December 17 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Home buyers appreciate the benefits of “green” communities, but residents don’t necessarily lead more eco-friendly lives than their neighbors in traditional homes, according to two University of Florida studies conducted in the fast-growing state.
Published: December 17 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Earth literally turned over a new leaf 15 million years ago when an earlier version of global warming changed large parts of the planet from lush forests to open grasslands, a new study by scientists at the University of Florida and other institutions shows.
Published: December 16 2007
This week the governors of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia will discuss the allocation of the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers (ACF) among the three states.
Published: December 13 2007
Published: December 13 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Because Christmas falls on the fourth Tuesday of this month, the Florida Consumer Attitude Survey will be issued Dec. 21.
Published: December 12 2007
Get ready to cut those cords, the ones connecting your laptop or cellphone to an outlet for charging. University of Florida engineers have developed a wireless charging station that can charge all your devices at once with no cords.
Published: December 12 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Here’s one tip for how to eat at the holidays: Don’t take your cues from Santa. The sugary cookies and fat-laden fruitcakes the mythical North Pole resident eats are a no-no. But you don’t have to go no-carb to stay fit at the holidays, either, University of Florida researchers say.
Published: December 12 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Good news about that annoying jumble of electronic device charger power cords — it may soon be history.
Published: December 11 2007
Published: December 11 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Measures to protect astronauts from health risks caused by space radiation will be important during extended missions to the moon or Mars, say researchers in a paper currently online in Experimental Neurology.
Published: December 11 2007
Published: December 10 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With more than half of us expecting to play Santa for ourselves this holiday season, a University of Florida family finance expert warns that being self-indulgent — even at bargain prices — can lead to a bad case of buyer’s remorse.
Published: December 10 2007
Published: December 10 2007
Published: December 10 2007
Published: December 7 2007
Published: December 7 2007
Published: December 6 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Research by a University of Florida graduate student finds most state statutes designed to prevent criminals from profiting from telling the story of their crimes are ineffective and unconstitutional.
Published: December 6 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — All is not gloom and doom with Florida real estate, according to the latest University of Florida study, which finds a positive outlook for commercial properties despite the bad news in the housing market.
Published: December 6 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — All is not gloom and doom with Florida real estate, according to the latest University of Florida study, which finds a positive outlook for commercial properties despite the bad news in the housing market.
Published: December 5 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In about 20 percent of women with breast cancer who plan to undergo a lumpectomy, breast magnetic resonance imaging reveals important diagnostic information that alters their treatment plan, University of Florida surgeons reported today (Dec. 5).
Published: December 5 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If a trip to Mars seems like it would be a tough journey, imagine what it would be like on the outside of the spaceship.
Published: December 5 2007
Published: December 4 2007
Published: December 4 2007
Type 1 diabetes is a disease which affects at least 1 million Americans. One of the newest additions to the University of Florida’s College of Medicine is working to help them.
Published: December 4 2007
Published: December 3 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida’s coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can permanently change — and eliminate — life on what had been isolated islands, says a University of Florida researcher.
Published: December 3 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Stimulant medications used to treat children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder may be responsible for an increased number of visits to the emergency room or doctor’s office because of cardiac symptoms, but deaths or serious heart complications are rare, a new University of Florida study reveals.
Published: December 3 2007
Published: December 3 2007
Published: December 3 2007
Pharmacy professor Leslie Hendeles was quoted in a Dec. 3 Associated Press story about the effectiveness of the decongestant phenylephrine. Research into the drug by Hendeles and others at UF was cited in a Dec. 4 Wall Street Journal story. A link is unavailable because the Journal is available by subscription only. Here is a related news release.
Published: December 3 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Australia’s most famous musical export, The Ten Tenors, has made a triumphant return to North America with their “Here’s to the Heroes” world tour. Gainesville is one of 65 tour stops throughout Canada and the U .S. The group will make an appearance at Gainesville’s Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Thursday, Dec. 20.
Published: December 4 2007
Here’s the print version of InsideUF for December 4, 2007.
Published: December 4 2007
Maxine L. Margolis, a professor of anthropology, was quoted in a Dec. 4 New York Times story about the growing number of Brazilians who are returning home after living in the U.S. illegally. The quote was the result of a news release.
Published: December 5 2007
Gainesville, Fla. — A major gift to the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida will give the university greater opportunities to produce future public policymakers in Florida and on the national scene.
Published: December 6 2007
Monarch butterfly expert Lincoln Brower was quoted in a Dec. 6 Associated Press story about the growing number of tourists visiting Mexico to see the yearly migration of millions of monarch butterflies.
Published: December 6 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The university will close Monday, Dec. 24. This decision was based on the proximity of the date to the normal university holiday which runs from Dec. 25 through Jan. 1. The extra day of closing will allow a significant cost savings by reducing energy consumption over the 11-day holiday closing period.
Published: December 8 2007
Entomologist Marjorie Hoy was quoted in a Dec. 8 Miami Herald story about about her search for a natural enemy for the plant-damaging red palm mite. Two other UF entomologists, Adrian Hunsberger and Jorge Pena, also were sources in the story.
Published: December 9 2007
Martin Uman, co-director of UF’s Lightning Research Laboratory, was quoted in a Dec. 9 New York Times Magazine story about the possibility of harnessing energy from lightning.
Published: December 9 2007
Ron Cave, a scientist at UF’s Biological Control Research and Containment Laboratory in Fort Pierce, was quoted in a Dec. 9 Orlando Sentinel story about the introduction of an exotic wasp to save the sago palm, which is being devastated by scale. The quote was the result of a news release.
Published: December 11 2007
Astrobiologist Wayne Nicholson was quoted in a Dec. 11 MSNBC story about his research experiment that will test the effect of space on bacterial spores on a Mars-bound vessel. The story was the result of a news release.
Published: December 11 2007
College of Medicine student Matthew Warren was quoted in a Dec. 11 Reuters news service story about his research into the health effects of using club drugs such as Ecstasy. Also involved in the research were Firas Kobeissy, a postdoctoral associate in the department of psychiatry; Dr. Mark Gold, chief of the division of addiction medicine at UF’s McKnight Brain Institute; and Kevin Wang, director of the UF Center for Neuroproteomics and Biomarkers Research. The story was the result of a news release.
Published: December 11 2007
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors to the Florida Museum of Natural History can discover how butterflies have influenced Zuni Indian art in a new exhibit,“Butterflies and Moths in Contemporary Zuni Art .” The exhibit is on display through 2008.
Published: December 17 2007
Chris McCarty, survey director for the University of Florida’s Survey Research Center, was quoted in a Dec. 17 Chicago Tribune story about how Florida’s economic slump could greatly influence the nation’s economic future and the presidential race.
Published: December 17 2007
Ornithologist David Steadman was quoted in a Dec. 17 National Geographic story about the discovery of an underwater cave in the Bahamas filled with fossils, including those of tortoises and crocodiles from a time before humans. The story was the result of a news release.
Published: December 19 2007
Neil E. Rowland, a professor of psychology, was quoted in a Dec. 19 U.S. News & World Report story about the reasons why the elderly lose their internal signals for when to drink.
Published: December 20 2007
Norb Dunkel, director of housing, was quoted in a Dec. 20 Inside Higher Ed story about how universities are providing housing for transgender students.
Published: December 30 2007
Eric Wachsman, interim director of the Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy, was quoted in a Dec. 30 Miami Herald story about the growing use of biomass as an energy source in Florida.
Published: December 30 2007
Paul Robell, vice president for development, was quoted in a Dec. 31 Orlando Sentinel story about the possibility of a columbarium being built on UF’s campus.