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Kindergartners who bring a simple set of reading skills to the first day of school can look forward to years of success in the classroom. For more, here’s Research Report.

Consumers in Florida have become so pessimistic about the economy and their own finances that consumer confidence in August fell to its lowest level in thirteen years.

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

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

With a new school year and new football season on the horizon, UF President Bernie Machen and Gator Football Coach Urban Meyer headlined this week’s Joint Civic Club/UF Luncheon.

Millions of kids are heading back to school sporting new backpacks and lunchboxes, but experts worry about whether kindergartners are coming to school equipped with critical reading skills too.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of August 7th.

The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina later this month should remind communities to get better prepared for a natural disaster. Now, University of Florida engineers are developing a portable power plant that generates not just power, it also produces fresh water and refrigeration to make ice.