University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida research center will focus on finding new solution for an age-old problem every driver is familiar with: traffic congestion.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida entomology doctoral student Emily Saarinen has received the international Canon National Parks Science Scholars scholarship, an $80,000 three-year award for her research on endangered Miami blue butterflies.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – It was announced today that Kelley Bergstrom of Kenilworth, Ill., has pledged $2.5 million to the University of Florida’s Center for Real Estate Studies.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is among five universities to receive the 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Five new members have been added to the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A creative approach to protecting environmentally sensitive land in north central Florida will also help establish a $2 million endowment for the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business and the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Barbara Hastie, a research assistant professor of community dentistry and behavioral science, received a five-year, $805,194 National Institutes of Health grant to study ethnic differences and genetic factors in acute postoperative pain and analgesic response.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida pilot program to increase health-promoting behaviors and prevent and modify obesity in low-income and ethnic minority families recently received more than $1.1 million from the PepsiCo Foundation.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Judy Campbell, a doctoral student from the University of Florida College of Nursing, has been chosen to receive a scholarship supporting the work of future leaders in geriatric nursing.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Annual Design Awards Gala for the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects was all about students this year – University of Florida students to be exact.