GAINESVILLE, Fla. — George Hochmuth, director of the University of Florida’s North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy, has been named associate dean for research with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Campaign Steering Council has been named to prepare for a major fundraising campaign that will help the university become one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning, President Bernie Machen announced.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Museum of Natural History Curator Emeritus Elizabeth S. Wing was among 72 new members elected Tuesday to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida archivist Carl Van Ness has been named the university’s official historian, UF President Bernie Machen announced today. Van Ness succeeds Samuel Proctor, who was the first person named to the position when it was created in the 1950s and held it until he died in 2005.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Jamie B. Conti, a cardiac electrophysiologist and an associate professor of medicine, has been elected to the Association of University Cardiologists, an organization of 125 of the nation’s top cardiologists.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Barbara Wingo has been named the University of Florida’s interim vice president and general counsel effective April 1, UF President Bernie Machen announced today.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A professor and chairwoman of the University of Florida’s agricultural and biological engineering department has been appointed the first director of the university’s newly established Water Institute.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — John W. Wright will become interim dean of the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications, effective July 1, Provost Janie Fouke announced today.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida professor E. Jane Luzar has been named an American Council on Education Fellow for the 2006-07 academic year.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Martin Gold, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Florida, has been named the executive director of the Florida Community Design Center.