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This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events during the holiday break.

Many New Year’s resolutions involve a diet. Now University of Florida researchers have a found a key to keeping your metabolism running. For more, here’s Research Report.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of December 12th.

You’ll find fructose in everything from soft drinks to ketchup. Now a UF study suggests this key component in table sugar and syrups found in many processed foods may trigger metabolic syndrome, a main precursor for type 2 diabetes. And experts say consuming much fructose may also speed you along the path to obesity.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of December 5th.

Parents of middle school girls beware: the gender gap for bad behavior is narrowing fast. A University of Florida study shows girls are actually becoming more aggressive and more delinquent than boys. For more, here’s Research Report.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of November 28th.

The volume of airline travel each year peaks over the Thanksgiving holiday. Now University of Florida engineers are working to turn down the volume on just how noisy jetliners can be.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of November 21st.

The feminist movement could be over, at least when it comes to a wife’s last name. While many young women over the past twenty-five years kept their maiden names after marriage, a University of Florida study shows what researchers call a “shocking” reversal. Here’s UF Linguistics researcher Diana Boxer.