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Published: August 31 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Any driver who's seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects.
Published: August 31 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Any driver who’s seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects.
Published: August 31 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With no clear signs the nation is either on the road to economic recovery or showing signs of entering another recession, Florida’s consumer confidence remained stagnant, inching up only one point to 67 in August, according to a new University of Florida survey.
Published: August 31 2010
Published: August 30 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have helped to develop a device that quickly identifies genes and proteins in body fluids — a technique that could make a vital difference to the trauma patients doctors treat.
Published: August 30 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the world’s most endangered whale species makes its way south every winter to give birth in waters near northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.
Published: August 30 2010
Published: August 30 2010
Published: August 30 2010
Published: August 30 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have helped to develop a device that quickly identifies genes and proteins in body fluids — a technique that could make a vital difference to the trauma patients doctors treat.
Published: August 27 2010
Published: August 26 2010
Published: August 26 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A performance exhibition featuring Josh Cajinarobleto in his first solo exhibition continues at 1 p.m. today and Friday in the Focus Gallery, main lobby of Fine Arts Building C.
Published: August 26 2010
You have at least five more reasons to keep pesky flies from landing on your food, five different bacteria that can cause serious disease in humans. University of Florida research shows that common house flies can carry some dangerous pathogens.
Published: August 26 2010
Published: August 26 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of three University of Florida astronomers contributed to the Kepler spacecraft’s discovery of two Saturn-sized planets, plus a possible third planet with a radius just one-and-a-half times that of Earth, orbiting a distant star.
Published: August 26 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Everyone knows that house flies aren’t welcome around food.
Published: August 25 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Aziz Ansari, an up and coming comedian best known for his role on the television series “Parks and Recreation,” has been chosen for the 2010 Gator Growl on Oct. 15.
Published: August 25 2010
Published: August 25 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Production of new nerve cells in the human brain is linked to learning and memory, according to a new study from the University of Florida. The research is the first to show such a link in humans. The findings, published online and in an upcoming print issue of the journal Brain, provide clues about processes involved in age- and health-related memory loss and reveal potential cellular targets for drug therapy.
Published: August 24 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study indicates extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago.
Published: August 24 2010
Media advisory
Published: August 24 2010
Published: August 24 2010
Published: August 23 2010
Published: August 23 2010
Tip Sheet
Published: August 23 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Termite spit may soon help fill our gas tanks. University of Florida researchers have isolated two enzymes termites use to break up lignin, a tough plant material that is major problem during the production of cellulosic ethanol.
Published: August 20 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Agricultural workers age 18 years or older who work with swine, turkeys, geese or ducks may be eligible for enrollment in a University of Florida study of influenza and agricultural workers. The study will monitor agricultural workers and their household members for flu, paying particular attention to flu infections that can be transmitted by both animals and humans.
Published: August 20 2010
Published: August 19 2010
Published: August 19 2010
Published: August 18 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The portrayal of women in comic strips is no laughing matter, according to a new University of Florida study, which finds that females are rarely the jokester and often not even part of the humorous exchange.
Published: August 18 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With food safety a major health concern, larger farms routinely use customized safety plans to ensure everything’s done by the book—now, University of Florida experts are helping smaller farms follow suit.
Published: August 18 2010
Published: August 17 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The performance of PANDEMONIUM – Lost and Found Orchestra, originally scheduled for Friday, Oct. 1 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, has been canceled.
Published: August 17 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — W. Clay Smith, of the University of Florida College of Medicine, has been granted a $60,000 RPB Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award by Research to Prevent Blindness.
Published: August 17 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Research to Prevent Blindness has awarded an unrestricted research grant of $100,000 to the University of Florida College of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
Published: August 17 2010
Published: August 17 2010
Published: August 17 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A baby who rarely cries is many parents’ idea of a “happy” baby. Ashlyn Blocker was that kind of baby.
Published: August 16 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory as one of the 15 research and deployment partnerships to participate in a four-year $90 million research project. The objective is to deliver innovative energy efficiency strategies to the residential market and address barriers to bringing high-efficiency homes within reach for all Americans.
Published: August 16 2010
Published: August 16 2010
Published: August 12 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Maybe that disgruntled JetBlue flight attendant should have popped a couple of Tylenols.
Published: August 12 2010
Published: August 12 2010
Media advisory
Published: August 11 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumers know that buying locally produced food stimulates the local economy, and a University of Florida researcher says the same idea applies when power plants use locally produced wood as fuel.
Published: August 11 2010
Published: August 11 2010
Published: August 11 2010
MIAMI, Fla. — A three-group partnership of early-childhood education proponents — teaming the University of Florida, Miami-Dade Public Schools and The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation — has beat out more than 1,600 other applicants nationwide for a share of federal education money worth $650 million.
Published: August 11 2010
Media advisory
Published: August 11 2010
Published: August 10 2010
Published: August 10 2010
Published: August 10 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Saccharin, the artificial sweetener used in diet drinks and other consumer products, has an unexpected sweet agricultural benefit: It helps soybean plants ward off a disease that threatens the entire soybean industry, University of Florida researchers say.
Published: August 9 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Florida and two other institutions $2.7 million to conduct a global inventory of the largest order of freshwater fishes, including some of the most commercially important fish worldwide.
Published: August 5 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — FarmVille, Facebook's most popular game, allows millions to till digital soil and trade products in a virtual market. Now, University of Florida faculty are bringing social networking to real-life agriculture, and they want players.
Published: August 5 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is one of the first institutions to receive two Partnership for International Research and Education Grants from the National Science Foundation in a single award cycle.
Published: August 4 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Plants from around the world beautify America’s yards, and to minimize the chance that exotic species will grow where they shouldn’t, University of Florida researchers are identifying and developing varieties with a low risk of running wild.
Published: August 3 2010
Media advisory
Published: August 2 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — – The University of Florida College of Fine Arts now offers a new online Master of Arts in Art Education degree program with classes that started this month.
Published: August 2 2010
Hotels and homeowners having trouble with bed bugs may just have to turn up the heat. University of Florida researchers have found a way to kill bed bugs that doesn’t involve any pesticides; it works just like a convection oven.
Published: August 10 2010
Chris McCarty, director of the Survey Research Center in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, was quoted in a July 28 St. Petersburg Times story about the monthly Florida consumer confidence report. The story was the result of a News Bureau news release.
Published: August 30 2010
Toxicologist Bruce Goldberger was quoted in an Aug. 5 St. Petersburg Times story about the popularity of the caffeinated malt liquor called Four Loko
Published: August 10 2010
Norbert Dunkel, director of housing and residence education, was quoted in a July 15 New York Times story about how college roommates resolve differences in today’s digital age.
Published: August 10 2010
English professor David Leavitt reviewed Selina Hastings’ “The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham” for the July 15 Sunday Book Review of The New York Times.
Published: August 30 2010
Paul Doering, a professor in the department of pharmacotherapy and translational research, was quoted in an Aug. 18 New York Daily News story about a recent report that found West Virginia had the highest per capita rate of prescription drug use in the country.
Published: August 16 2010
The University of Florida Men’s Glee Club is an open, male vocal ensemble that has been sharing their gift of song from more than 80 years.
Published: August 10 2010
Pharmacy professor Paul Doering was quoted in a July 27 McClatchy Newspapers story about the emergence of digital drugs, downloadable sound waves that produce a high when heard.
Published: August 10 2010
Anthropology professor Susan Gillespie was quoted in a July 26 Associated Press story about the reconstruction of a set of human remains that indicates the first people who came to the Americas might have come from a broader area than previously thought.
Published: August 30 2010
Zoology professor Karen Bjorndal was quoted in an Aug. 5 Associated Press story about whether the Gulf of Mexico could completely recover from the BP oil spill.
Published: August 30 2010
Veterinary pathologist Brian Stacy was quoted in an Aug. 18 Associated Press story about the return of the first rehabilitated turtles oiled by BP’s massive leak to the Gulf of Mexico.