Tickets available for gala marking 50 years of integration at UF
Published: January 30 2009
Published: January 29 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Loss of life and destroyed property could be avoided if the Federal Emergency Management Agency replaced current flood maps with ones containing high-resolution land surface elevation area — and if the agency used up-to-date modeling techniques.
Published: January 29 2009
Published: January 27 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians inched up one point to 68 in January despite worse than expected holiday retail sales and the state being tied for 10th place in the percentage of unemployed workers, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: January 27 2009
Published: January 26 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida's avocado industry, the nation's second-largest, could lose millions of dollars if a new disease reaches the state’s southern tip, according to University of Florida experts.
Published: January 26 2009
Published: January 22 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — While hitting its 30th anniversary mark this year, Florida's Master Gardener program has another reason to party: Its volunteers recently reached a milestone, logging more than 5 million hours since the program began.
Published: January 22 2009
GAINESVILLE — Pediatricians usually have about seven minutes to sit face-to-face with patients during a typical visit. It’s barely enough time to perform an exam, let alone assess how a child is faring at school or at home.
Published: January 21 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Once as divided as oil and water, labor unions and environmental groups are burying their bitter differences to become natural allies about health concerns shared in workplaces and communities, says a University of Florida researcher and author of a new book.
Published: January 21 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An accelerating avalanche of bad economic news has swept over Florida real estate to sink confidence in the industry to its lowest level since a statewide survey of economic experts began three years ago, a new University of Florida report finds.
Published: January 19 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America’s earliest civilization.
Published: January 18 2009
Published: January 18 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the blood.
Published: January 18 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the blood.
Published: January 15 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Remember the cool kids back in high school who always seemed to get all the breaks, even from some people who actually hated them?
Published: January 15 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Call it “CSI: Animal Edition.”
Published: January 7 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mercury pollution has already spurred public health officials to advise eating less fish, but it could become a more pressing concern in a warmer world.
Published: January 5 2009
Media Advisory
Published: January 5 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Larry Arrington, dean and director of the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension, has been named interim senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources, UF President Bernie Machen announced today.
Published: January 16 2009
Human Resources has announced the holiday schedule for 2009. Please note that areas of campus, including medical clinics, may remain open during holidays.
Published: January 15 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As leaders of many national, state and local governments debate whether to raise taxes on alcohol to boost revenues, their decisions also could influence how much their constituents imbibe in coming years, say University of Florida researchers.
Published: January 7 2009
Dr. Michael Okun, a neurologist and co-director of the UF Movement Disorders center at the McKnight Brain Institute, was quoted in a Jan. 6 Associated Press story about the success and risks of Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s disease.
Published: January 21 2009
Anthropologist Mike Moseley was quoted in a Jan. 19 Associated Press story about his research into how natural disasters destroyed a civilization more than 3,600 years ago in what is now Peru. The story was the result of a News Bureau news release.
Published: January 7 2009
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in a Jan. 5 Bloomberg News story about the unlikely prospect of a rebound in initial public offerings this year.
Published: January 15 2009
With the Legislature wrapping up its special session this week, I want to bring you up to date on our current budget situation and outline how we plan to proceed in developing the budget for the next year.
Published: January 21 2009
Law professor Michael Seigel was quoted in a Jan. 15 Fort Myers News-Press story about the possibility of a convicted swindler negotiating for a lighter sentence.
Published: January 28 2009
Here’s the print version of InsideUF for January 20, 2009.
Published: January 21 2009
University of Florida police say a former Mobile Campus employee confessed Wednesday night to sending the cryptic “monkey” text message that thousands of UF students and employees received a day earlier.
Published: January 21 2009
Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute, was quoted in a Jan. 9 Nature article about a possible new strategy for controlling outbreaks of cholera.
Published: January 7 2009
Political science professor Richard Scher was quoted in a Jan. 4 Sarasota Herald-Tribune story about what Gov. Crist and the state Legislature will do about the state’s current budget crisis.
Published: January 21 2009
Shark expert George Burgess was quoted in a Jan. 14 Seattle Times story about the popularity of shark-diving trips despite their potential danger.
Published: January 19 2009
The Gator Nation wants to know your personal Gator story. Visit the outdoor mobile video booth to record your story at the following upcoming events. Just look for the orange and blue “When did you become a Gator?” signage.
Published: January 27 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Explore the world of study abroad. The Study Abroad Fair will be held Tuesday Jan. 27 and Wednesday Jan. 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Reitz Union Colonnade.
Published: January 16 2009
All colleges are invited to submit nominations for the Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award for 2008-2009. The award offers an honorarium of $5,000, in addition to other appropriate recognition. Current faculty members of the University of Florida are eligible.
Published: January 7 2009
Dr. Mark Gold, chairman of psychiatry in the College of Medicine, was quoted in a Dec. 31 story in The New Republic about problems of addiction among anesthesiologists.
Published: January 7 2009
The Wall Street Journal quoted finance professor Jay Ritter in a Jan. 14 story about the first possible initial public offering since November.