University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida Performing Arts (UFPA) and Shands Arts in Medicine have formed a groundbreaking partnership to bring world-class performing artists from UFPA’s season into the healthcare setting, providing rich, high-level performances and interactive arts events to individuals whose circumstances allow them little or no access to the arts.

The University Press of Florida is pleased to announce that “Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams” (UPF, 2005) by Gary R. Mormino has won the Florida Historical Society’s 2006 Charlton Tebeau Book Award.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida pediatric geneticist considered one of the world’s leading researchers and physicians for Prader-Willi Syndrome recently was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Honors Program announced that UF students have won a strong series of national prestigious scholarships and awards this year. For three of the scholarships, Truman, Goldwater, and National Science Foundation Fellowships, UF had the most winners of these awards in campus history.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two veterinarians associated with major small animal practices and a longtime supporter of education in the state of Florida have been honored in the 2006 University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine alumni council’s Distinguished Awards program.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Nikki Hackendahl, D.V.M., a second-year small animal medicine resident at the University of Florida Veterinary Medical Center, graces the cover of the April issue of Compendium. A two-part article Hackendahl wrote, titled “Insulin Resistance in Diabetic Patients: Mechanisms & Classifications” and “Insulin Resistance in Diabetic Patients: Causes and Management,” appears in the journal.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students and faculty soon will have access to a new interdisciplinary science laboratory in UF’s Health Science Center complex, thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Today marks the start of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. After the major storms of the past two seasons, University of Florida emergency preparedness officials want to remind UF students, faculty and staff that the university stands ready to put its preparedness plan into motion should the need arise again.