GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida law professor Michael Seigel has become the second UF faculty member to be honored as a co-recipient of The Florida Bar’s 2008 Faculty Professionalism Award. Seigel received the award in recognition of his commitment to instilling the ideals and values of the legal profession through teaching, scholarship and service. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida research program will seek to improve the reliability of the electronic devices in many military radar systems and space-based communications equipment.
A kickoff meeting for the College of Engineering-based Center for a 21st Century Approach to Electronic Reliability is set for Thursday. The center is funded with a [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rapid growth in enrollment in the University of Florida’s online pharmacy programs bodes well for the growth of Florida’s pharmaceutical industry, says a University of Florida professor.
The UF College of Pharmacy offered its first online master’s degree program two years ago, and interest has been so high the college has followed up [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Collectors Weekly, a Web site for collectors and antique enthusiasts, recently selected the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Web site, http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/baldwin.html , for its Hall of Fame.
The Collectors Weekly highlights Web sites with deep reference content reflecting unique collections which demonstrate “a passion for collecting.” Baldwin Library [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UF Digital Collections (UFDC) now provides free, online access to more than two million pages converted from the libraries’ paper collections, UF museums and other UF programs. UFDC hit the one-million page mark in September 2007, and steady growth continues. It is now the largest university-based digital library in the Southeast, and [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Leading market researchers in the U.S. and Canada were honored in Hanover, Md., on Friday by the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS). The group announced that Steven M. Shugan, marketing professor and Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida, was one of the inaugural 10 recipients of its new Fellow Award. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Richard Lutz, JCPenney professor of marketing at the University of Florida, recently was named one of three recipients to receive the 2008 Sherwin-Williams Distinguished Teaching Award.
The award, now in its 11th year, will be presented by the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) at its annual conference Nov. 4 – 9 in St. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Tourism Crisis Management Institute at the University of Florida recently hosted a symposium on Tourism Crisis Management for Destinations on June 25. The event was held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center in conjunction with the Florida Association of Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Destination Marketing Industry Summit.
All attendees had [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is helping to sponsor the 2008 Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) conference from July 28 to Aug. 1 in Naples, Fla.
The conference will serve as a forum for restoration practitioners to share and learn about the challenges facing the Everglades restoration. GEER [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America announce a brand-new, national touring production of “The Backyardigans Live! Tale of the Mighty Knights!.” The show will perform at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 24 at the Phillips Center.
“We’re excited about our latest, live theatrical endeavor for families,” said Stuart Rosenstein, senior vice [...]