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Published: September 30 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A retired Orlando community pharmacist who donated $1.2 million to establish a University of Florida College of Pharmacy campus in Orlando will realize his dream Oct. 5 with the groundbreaking of the new UF Research and Academic Center in Lake Nona.
Published: September 30 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For hundreds of years, farmers in Brazil’s Amazon Basin have hunted through dense jungles for what is called “terra preta” — mysterious plots of super-fertile black soil amid otherwise nutrient-stripped earth.
Published: September 30 2010
Published: September 29 2010
Published: September 29 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A chemical compound made from a type of bacteria discovered in the Florida Keys by a University of Florida pharmacy researcher has shown effectiveness in fighting colon cancer in preclinical experiments.
Published: September 29 2010
Published: September 29 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Don’t blink if you see pink as part of a University of Florida Police Department uniform on Thursday.
Published: September 29 2010
Published: September 28 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More hunting restrictions may be needed if wildlife managers are to bring back declining populations of the northern bobwhite quail, a new University of Florida study shows.
Published: September 28 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The sealing of the BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico put a stop to the hemorrhaging of Florida’s consumer confidence, which rose two points to 68 in September, its highest level since May according to a new University of Florida survey.
Published: September 28 2010
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Published: September 28 2010
Published: September 27 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida surgeon Dr. Stephen Grobmyer and his collaborators in the department of surgery and College of Engineering have been awarded three U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Concept Awards and a research foundation grant totaling nearly $600,000 to develop new ways to deliver treatment to breast cancer patients.
Published: September 27 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eligible University of Florida employees can choose their benefits for 2011, starting at 8 a.m. today.
Published: September 24 2010
Published: September 24 2010
Published: September 24 2010
Published: September 24 2010
Published: September 23 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study will take an in-depth look at the factors involved in treatment decisions made by people with colorectal cancer. The study is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Bankhead-Coley Florida Cancer Research Program, administered through the Florida Department of Health.
Published: September 23 2010
Published: September 23 2010
Somewhere beneath Gulf of Mexico waters lies the archive of Spanish West Florida. When Americans invaded Pensacola in 1818, Spanish officials fled for Cuba. Intercepted en route by pirates, they heaved the colony’s records overboard.
Published: September 23 2010
Published: September 23 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In 1995, conservation managers made a desperate bid to save the Florida panther from extinction and released eight female pumas imported from Texas in hopes they’d breed with native males.
Published: September 23 2010
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Published: September 22 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Legal scholar and Ohio State University Moritz College of Law professor Michelle Alexander will visit the University of Florida Levin College of Law to discuss her new book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” at noon today UF Law’s Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom (Holland Hall, Room 180).
Published: September 22 2010
Published: September 22 2010
Published: September 22 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A sci-fi film fest at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Digital Worlds Institute will show how the genre of science fiction cinema developed.
Published: September 21 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have discovered that tomato variety and maturity influence the ways salmonella bacteria respond to the fruit.
Published: September 21 2010
It turns out aging does increase the risk of disease, at least in tomatoes. A new University of Florida study shows the specific variety of tomato matters along with the fruit’s ripeness. Green tomatoes resist salmonella much more than ripe red ones.
Published: September 21 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Students in Free Enterprise at the University of Florida are offering free consulting services to improve local businesses.
Published: September 21 2010
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Published: September 21 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the complex world of ant-plant partnerships, serial monogamy can help trees maximize their evolutionary fitness, a new University of Florida study shows.
Published: September 20 2010
Published: September 20 2010
Published: September 17 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — During this year’s Division of Student Affairs Fall Kickoff, two University of Florida Police Department captains and a UFPD major were recognized for their outstanding service.
Published: September 16 2010
Published: September 16 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Cardiologists at the University of Florida are pointing to a new use for an old therapy. Giving patients cholesterol-lowering statins before surgery and other invasive procedures can halve the risk of heart attacks, deaths and other complications, they report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Published: September 15 2010
Published: September 15 2010
Published: September 14 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A six-part fall speaker series on the public's access to books and their future begins Thursday at the University of Florida and Alachua County Library District.
Published: September 14 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A six-part fall speaker series on the public’s access to books and their future begins Thursday at the University of Florida and Alachua County Library District.
Published: September 14 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Friday evening, Oct. 8, the evening before the UF vs. LSU football game, with a special birthday benefit “20 Candles: Come As You Art!” The party, offering a variety of entertainment and cuisine for attendees, will raise funds for exhibition development.
Published: September 13 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gator Growl has added two more comics to this year’s Homecoming pep rally show Oct. 15.
Published: September 13 2010
Published: September 13 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Government agencies at all levels use Facebook and other social media. Many are unaware they may be more vulnerable than private sector users to lawsuits and other legal action.
Published: September 10 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Islam on Campus, a student-run organization at the University of Florida, will host Quran 101, an information session to answer questions about the religious text of Islam, on Monday.
Published: September 10 2010
Published: September 9 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Office of Sustainability will offer a location on campus this fall for local farms to provide their produce to the UF community through a Community Supported Agriculture Program, known as a CSA.
Published: September 9 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students and alumni have the opportunity to have a “Growl Minute of Fame” during this fall’s Gator Growl homecoming pep rally.
Published: September 9 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Legal responses to the disaster caused by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill this summer are wide-ranging and varied, according to law professors from the University of Florida Levin College of Law who have been studying laws and policies that can determine liability for such environmental disasters.
Published: September 8 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The impact of the BP oil spill on the region’s land and water resources will be the subject of an expert panel Sept. 14 at the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
Published: September 8 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History recently recognized operations coordinator Kurt Auffenberg as the 2010 recipient of the Thompson Van Hyning Award.
Published: September 8 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The dedication of William R. Hough Hall, the sprawling, new home for graduate business studies at the Warrington College of Business Administration, took place this morning with a host of university leaders and distinguished guests present.
Published: September 8 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Blue Key Gubernatorial Debate scheduled for Oct. 4 at the University of Florida has been canceled because of scheduling conflicts.
Published: September 7 2010
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Published: September 7 2010
Published: September 7 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida genetics researcher has received $9.8 million to further a national effort to use genetic data to more effectively pinpoint which medications and treatments are best for individual patients.
Published: September 4 2010
Published: September 3 2010
Published: September 3 2010
Published: September 21 2010
Published: September 3 2010
Published: September 3 2010
Published: September 2 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — After declining for the first time since the end of World War II, Florida's population grew once again last year, a hopeful yet tentative sign that the worst of the recession may have passed, according to the latest preliminary population estimates from the University of Florida.
Published: September 2 2010
Published: September 2 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Emina Huang, an associate professor of surgery in the College of Medicine, has received a $1.52 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund her research into the origins of colon cancer.
Published: September 2 2010
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Published: September 2 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ants are not out of their weight class when defending trees from the appetite of nature’s heavyweight, the African elephant, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: September 1 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Medicine in collaboration with UF's Warrington College of Business Administration has started a two-year master's program in translational biotechnology that will prepare graduates for management roles in industry and academia by equipping them with knowledge and skills critical for developing new therapies for use in humans. The first of its kind in Florida, the program is supported by a three-year, $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Published: September 1 2010
Published: September 3 2010
Published: September 24 2010
J. Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute, was quoted in a Sept. 13 Washington Post story about how salmonella has been sickening people for decades.
Published: September 24 2010
Epidemiologist Alexander Wagenaar was quoted in an Aug. 29 Washington Post story about the relationship between alcohol consumption and privatization.
Published: September 24 2010
UF was listed as the No. 9 recruiter pick in a Sept. 13 Wall Street Journal story about the shift in attention from Ivy League to state school graduates entering the job market.
Published: September 24 2010
Entomology professor Philip Koehler was quoted in an Aug. 23 Wall Street Journal story about the use of dogs to detect bedbugs.
Published: September 24 2010
Anthony Brennan, professor of biomedical engineering and co-founder of the company Sharklet Technologies Inc., was quoted in a Sept. 14 Wall Street Journal story about his approach to fighting bacteria in homes. See related video.
Published: September 3 2010
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in an Aug. 27 USA Today story about an increase in the number of initial public offerings in 2010 compared with recent years.
Published: September 3 2010
Chris McCarty, director of UF’s Survey Research Center in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, was quoted in an Aug. 31 St. Petersburg Times story about the monthly Florida consumer confidence report, which showed little change from the previous month. The story was the result of a News Bureau news release.
Published: September 24 2010
UF alumnus Bill Hough was featured in a Sept. 8 St. Petersburg Times story about the dedication ceremony of Hough Hall, the new graduate business school building named in his honor. See related media advisory.
Published: September 17 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The American premiere of “Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3),” a collaborative project of University of Florida digital arts and sciences professor James Oliverio and Grammy Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis, will be broadcast nationally Wednesday as a part of the New York Philharmonic’s Opening Night Gala Celebration.
Published: September 27 2010
UF officials are working with Progress Energy to determine the cause of a campus-wide power outage Monday afternoon.
Published: September 10 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Mail and Document Services Department is now a United States Passport Acceptance Facility.
Published: September 24 2010
Photos from a University of Florida study were featured in an Aug. 30 New York Times story about muscle deterioration.
Published: September 24 2010
Economist Mark Rush and graduate student Lu Yin were mentioned in a Sept. 8 New York Times blog about the professional quality of online lectures.
Published: September 24 2010
Dr. Fred H. Edwards, medical director for cardiothoracic surgery in Jacksonville, was quoted in a Sept. 7 New York Times story about Consumer Reports’ surgical group ratings and their availability to the public.
Published: September 3 2010
Biology professor Todd Palmer was quoted in a Sept. 2 MSNBC.com story about his research into how ants protect trees in the East African savanna from elephants. Numerous other media covered this story, which was the result of a News Bureau news release.
Published: September 9 2010
Jen Day Shaw, dean of students for student affairs, was interviewed on Aug. 27 on Minnesota Public Radio on whether today’s college students are studying less.
Published: September 24 2010
Stanley Smith of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research was quoted in a Sept. 10 Miami Herald story about population trends in Homestead, Fla. See related release.
Published: September 23 2010
Daniel A. Smith is a University of Florida Research Foundation professor of political science and the director of the political campaigning program at UF.
Published: September 25 2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kevin Knudson, director of the UF Honors Program and mathematics professor, anticipated the day he would appear on “Jeopardy” for years. He finally got his chance July 27 when he was filmed on the game show, which aired Sept. 15.
Published: September 29 2010
Roughly twelve million people each year face the difficult diagnosis of cancer, now the leading cause of death worldwide. But the development of new anti-cancer drugs remains a challenge, despite advances in understanding the make-up of cancer cells. Now University of Florida researchers have discovered a natural compound called largazole, found in the waters off the Florida Keys. Largazole has already shown promising results fighting colon cancer cells.
Published: September 3 2010
Law professor Winston Nagan was quoted in a Sept. 1 Associated Press story about opposition to the French national railway’s bids to build high-speed tracks in the U.S. because of its role in transporting people to concentration camps during World War II.