Neta Pulvermacher, assistant professor of dance and a choreographer, recently received commissions from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Manhattanville College and the Dreyfoos School for the Arts. In addition, Pulvermacher’s new production “Fold and Air,” to premiere in February at the Danspace project in New York City, received support from the Bossak Heilbron Charitable Foundation, [...]
The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) recently announced the recipients of the 2008 International Educator of the Year Award. Charles H. Wood, professor of sociology and Latin American studies, was given the senior faculty award. The junior faculty award went to Juan Carlos Molleda, associate professor of public relations.
UFIC established the award to [...]
Examining modern tax policy and how its implementation affects the economy and people’s lives is the purpose of the newly endowed Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture Series established at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Gelberg, a 1977 graduate of the college’s Graduate Tax Program, has pledged $500,000 from the Stein Gelberg [...]
Beginning last December, portions of four major roads on the University of Florida campus became partially closed for restoration. The repairs include Museum Road, Newell Drive, Stadium Road and Buckman Drive.
The restoration stretches from Gale Lemerand Drive to Pugh Hall on Stadium Road, from Museum Road to Union Road on Newell Drive, from Pugh [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students are getting the chance to use their design talent to help both themselves and future Gators.
The UF College of Design, Construction and Planning will hold a 10-hour charrette, or intensive collaborative design session, on Wednesday calling on the college’s upper division undergraduate and graduate students to design [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — The title of the 58th Annual Conference of the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies is “The Urban Divide in Latin America: Challenges and Strategies for Social Inclusion.” The conference will take place Jan. 28-30, 2009 at the Reitz Student Union on the UF campus. The conference is co-sponsored [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., executive director of the University of Florida’s Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, will discuss the Regeneration Project, an international effort to create new human therapies by enhancing the body’s natural regeneration and repair processes, on XM Radio’s ReachMD series “Future Medicine and Genetics.”
He was interviewed by [...]
To: Faculty, staff and students
From: President Bernie Machen
Re: UF’s Budget
Date: Jan. 15, 2009
With the Legislature wrapping up its special session this week, I want to bring you up to date on our current budget situation and outline how we plan to proceed in developing the budget for the next year.
As part of its mid-year [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Once again, visitors will be able to experience the art of the moving image with the return of RISK Cinema to the Harn Museum of Art. The spring season is composed of four evenings of documentary film highlighting experimental and unique approaches to the genre and one screening of student films.
Peter Hutton’s [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Spring 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series begins Jan. 21 with a presentation by environmental activist and public servant Nathaniel Reed. The theme for this semester will be “Florida, Water, and the Environment,” and will include talks by policy leaders, journalists and academics.
Reed will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday [...]