The Florida Museum of Natural History is hosting “Ask a Paleontologist” events from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 12, March 4, April 15 and May 6.

Florida Museum vertebrate paleontology collections manager Richard Hulbert and Florida Museum invertebrate paleontology collections manager Roger Portell will identify fossils for visitors and share information about paleontology March 4 and May 6. Hulbert is also scheduled for Feb. 12 and Portell for April 15.

“The best way for people to learn is to communicate with those doing the research,” said Florida Museum education assistant Amanda Erickson Harvey. “This is a great opportunity for kids and adults alike to learn about our state’s prehistoric life. Florida is rich with fossils, and research by museum paleontologists continues to expand our knowledge about the animals and plants that lived here millions of years ago. ”

Some fossils commonly found in Florida include bones of large animals, such as 15- to 20-foot-tall giant ground sloths and glyptodonts, 10-foot-long relatives of the armadillo, as well as shark teeth and numerous aquatic invertebrates.

The Outstanding Sports Facility award recognizes the collaboration between architects and the university staff to create state-of-the-art environments that attract and motivate people to be active.

“RDG Planning & Design has partnered with UF and Charles Perry Partners Inc. to create, build and open a magnificent facility that will impact the UF community for years to come,” said David Bowles, director of the department of recreational sports, also known as RecSports, which operates the center.

In 1988, the NIRSA began presenting the annual Outstanding Sports Facilities awards for creative, innovative designs of new or expanded facilities. Each winner is considered a standard or model by which other collegiate recreational facilities should be measured and from which others can benefit. The association selects and publishes information on these facilities as a resource for campus master planners, recreational sports directors, designers, architects, contractors and recreational sports students.

The Southwest Recreation Center expansion project opened in August 2010 with 40,755 gross square feet of new space and 45,700 gross square feet of renovated space. The new space features a two-story cardio room, administrative office suite and an activity room. The existing space was renovated to create a training center and a student marketing suite. In addition, corridors, activity rooms, locker rooms, a social lounge, restrooms and the weight room were renovated. Digital signage was installed throughout the facility, enhancing the department’s marketing efforts introducing state-of-the-art graphics that are dynamic and interactive along with reducing the amount of paper usage and clutter throughout the building.

“These exceptional facilities continue to prove that campus recreation facilities are more to students than just a place to work out. They are about finding friends and fun that make the college experience memorable,” said Lexi Chaput, chair of the NIRSA committee that oversees the award process.

Any association member institution with construction projects no more than 2 years old, with a facility with more than 20,000 square feet, and with total construction costs (excluding design and land fees) of at least $2 million is eligible for an Outstanding Sports Facility Award. Each facility is evaluated based on the construction project’s correlation to the campus master plan and mission, the relationship between facility design and staffing, innovative use of construction materials or methods, sustainable features and technological benefits for the customer, staff or budget.

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Twenty-seven international artists defy the limits of painting by applying it to large-scale canvases, sculptures and found objects. These works combine to create a rich and exciting visual experience. Vanishing Points opens February 7 and will be on view through April 29.

“ ‘Vanishing Points’ reflects a world transformed by contemporary science, technology and media,” said Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Curator of Contemporary Art. “Artists expand on historical notions of perspective and spatial orientation opening up multiple and interesting ways of viewing the world.”

Artists in the exhibition incorporate the strategies of technology and media in the texture of their work including urban architecture, graphic and automotive design, comics, mapping, sculpture, photography and film.

The collectors, Debra and Dennis Scholl, have been collecting contemporary art for 33 years. They loaned the works for this exhibition, which represents established and emerging artists who work across the boundaries of specific media, providing proactive and new perspectives on art and culture.

“Vanishing Points” is a collaboration between the Scholls, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami and the Harn Museum of Art and was co-curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith from the Harn Museum of Art and Gean Moreno from the Bass Museum of Art. The exhibition is made possible by the Sidney Knight Endowment and the Exhibition Circle. The exhibition catalogue is available in the Museum Store.

For more information, call 352-392-9826 or visit www.harn.ufl.edu.

The museum is offering a number of related programs for audiences of all ages.

Museum Nights, Thursday, Feb. 9, 6 to 9 p.m., free and open to the public

Join us for an engaging after-hours experience celebrating African and African American art and culture. Browse the galleries and enjoy works from the Harn’s African collection as well as works by African American artists in “Vanishing Points” and “Open Engagement.” Guests will also enjoy free food, art making activities, poetry readings, a performance by “Pazeni Sauti” the UF African Choir, storytelling, dance performances and a gallery talk. The Camellia Court Café will be open until 8:45 p.m. on this evening.

Collector Lecture, Friday, Feb. 10, 3 p.m., free and open to the public
Dennis Scholl will speak about work from his and his wife’s collection included in the exhibition.

Harn Member pARTy, Friday, Feb. 10, 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Become a member and enjoy a pARTy celebrating the opening. There will be an opportunity to join at the door. Visit the membership section of the Harn’s website for a list of additional benefits and information about joining: www.harn.ufl.edu/membership.

Museum Nights, Thursday, March 8, 6 to 9 p.m., free and open to the public
Join us for an interactive after-hours museum experience celebrating the works on view in Vanishing Points. This is also our annual Community Arts Showcase where we celebrate local arts organizations. Offerings will include art making activities and performances.

Gallery Talk, Sunday, March 18, 3 p.m.
Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art.
Come to this gallery talk to hear Oliver-Smith’s insights on Vanishing Points.

Docent Led Tours Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.

In “The Green Leap: A Primer for Conserving Biodiversity in Subdivision Development,” author Mark Hostetler writes for audiences ranging from policy makers and land developers to potential homeowners.

The book offers detailed information about building green developments, but it also can be used to retrofit existing communities.

Part of his aim in writing the book was to help cities and developers avoid potential pitfalls when attempting to conserve biodiversity when land is subdivided, he said. The trick is to address design issues while paying attention to construction and post-construction issues.

For instance, a developer may set aside a common area as a natural preserve. But if there are no management plans for both the built and conserved areas, much can go wrong. During construction, heavy equipment can dramatically impact conserved areas. After construction, a well-meaning landscaper or resident might bring in an invasive plant that takes over, or free-roaming pets may prey upon local wildlife.

Hostetler said he’s happy to see increasing interest from cities, developers and the public in green developments.

“Every time you can build a model green community, it makes it easier for the next person who comes through,” he said. “One thing I’ve learned, it’s not easy. But for all of those steps that have to be taken, it makes the planning process just a little bit easier for the next person.”

The book discusses the dynamic relationship among residents, developers, and policy makers and what each stakeholder must do to build functional green communities. Specific design and management strategies are discussed and topics range from tree and natural area protection to community engagement and wildlife-friendly transportation systems.

The book is published by the University of California Press and available now.

This event provides a unique opportunity for participants to develop leadership skills, prepare for success in leadership roles, and take advantage of networking opportunities. Registration for the conference
is $15 and includes breakfast, keynote speaker, leadership workshops, lunch, conference materials, organization fair, speakers panel and gift bags.

Registration can be made at ufwsa.blogspot.com/p/registration.html. More information can be found at ufwsa.blogspot.com.

Karen DeYoung, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and associate editor of The Washington Post, is the keynote speaker.

The evening includes dinner, full bar, dancing and abundant entertainment from various UF ensembles and a guest performance by professor emeritus Gary Langford. Tickets can be purchased for $100 at www.arts.ufl.edu or at the door.

Langford retired from the School of Music in 2007 after more than 25 years of teaching and directing UF marching, concert and jazz bands. He has also been a featured artist of the Gainesville Friends of Jazz and directed the Alachua County Youth Orchestra.

UF ensembles such as the UF Jazz Combo, UF Opera Theatre, Pazeni Sauti Africa Choir, UF Piano Studios, Brazilian guitarist Welson Tremura and the Faculty Dance Band will entertain guests throughout the night.
The event is organized by UF Friends of Music and acclaimed event designer Kevin Watson, and sponsored by Fine, Farkash & Parlapiano, PA.

UF Friends of Music first formed to support the College of Fine Arts students and programs in 1974. Special events and membership drives support more than 35 scholarships for students and programming needs for concerts and productions, master classes, travel and other enhancements.

Upcoming programs include opera performances of “Die Fledermaus” this spring; an invitation for the Fightin’ Gator Marching Band to perform in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London; study abroad programs, including the first UF administration of Opera Festival di Roma in Rome; music historians and scholars giving public lectures sponsored by the UF Musicology Colloquium; the 2012 UF International Piano Festival in Gainesville, affiliated with the Chinese-American International Piano Institute; and the “Arts at the Whitney” public performance series at UF’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine.

For more information, call 352-846-1218 or visit http://www.arts.ufl.edu/fom/events.

The program is being co-sponsored by the Bob Graham Center, the UF International Center, and The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica Endowment Fund, among others. The event is free and open to the public.

The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Hass has been noted for her unparalleled reporting and courage in covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As a foreign correspondent, she has literally lived “behind enemy lines” in covering the decade-old conflict between Palestinians and Jews. Hass has lived in Gaza and in the West Bank among Palestinians for years – something unheard of and seen by many as dangerous for a Jewish citizen of Israel.

“In doing so, Hass is celebrated by some Israelis as a national conscience and condemned by others as an ideologue or even a traitor,” the Los Angeles Times wrote in a profile of Hass.

Even at the height of the second intifada – the bloody uprising of Palestinians in 2001 — Hass openly worked as a lone Israeli journalist covering the conflict for Ha’aretz, Israel’s oldest and most liberal daily newspaper.

Describing why she does it, Hass has written that “my desire to live in Gaza stemmed neither from adventurism nor from insanity, but from that dread of being a bystander, from my need to understand, down to the last detail, a world that is, to the best of my political and historical comprehension, a profoundly Israeli creation. To me, Gaza embodies the entire saga of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; it represents the central contradiction of the state of Israel – democracy for some, dispossession for others; it is our exposed nerve.”

Hass is a recipient of the International Press Institute’s World Press Freedom Hero Prize, the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award and numerous other awards. She is the author of “Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege,” and co-author of “Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land.”

Formed by Amanda Walther and Sheila Carabine, Dala is celebrating its 10th anniversary in the music industry. The duo’s PBS special “Girls from the North Country,” prompted a CD release by Compass Records and Dala was named vocal group of the year at the 2011 Canadian Folk Music Awards.

“I had the opportunity to hear Dala in New York two years ago and immediately decided to engage them for the 2011-12 season,” UFPA director Michael Blachly said. “My decision was based on their incredible vocal harmonies, their musicality and their unique song-writing skills.”

NPR’s “Folk Alley” named Dala’s “Horses” one of 2010’s top folk songs of the year and its 2009 album, “Everyone is Someone,” was named album of the year by The Irish Poet. The duo’s new album, “Best Day,” will be released June 8, 2012.

Tickets are on sale and available for this performance. Call 352-392-ARTS (2787) or 800-905-ARTS (toll free within Florida), or visit www.performingarts.ufl.edu for more information.

Written by Bernard-Marie Koltès and translated by Martin Crimp, the production runs this weekend and next in the Nadine McGuire Black Box Theatre, part of the McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavillion on the UF campus.

Directed by Ralf Remshardt, “Roberto Zucco” is loosely based on the tale of a notorious criminal who broke out of prison after murdering his parents and briefly became the most wanted man in Europe in the 1980s. He went on a crime spree through several countries before being apprehended and finally falling off the roof of a prison.

In the hands of French playwright Koltès, “Zucco” evolves from a merely homicidal character to a figure of mythic proportions, like a Greek hero who holds the fate of others in his hands. “I crush other living creatures not because I’m evil,” he says, “but because I step on them without seeing them.” In several rapidly moving scenes, the play portrays a world as much defined by its own internal violence as hounded by the monstrous nature of Zucco’s actions.

The production features designs from Molly Ilten (scenic), Brian Lussier (lighting), Becki Stafford (costumes), and highlights the graduate thesis performances of Carlos Alejandro, Amelia Harris and Alaina Manchester.

“Roberto Zucco” runs at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, and again Feb. 7-11. Matinees are at 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 12.

Tickets are available through the University of Florida Box Office located at the end of the Reitz Student Union Colonnade. Tickets are $13 for UF students, UF faculty and staff, senior citizens and $17 for the general public.

For more ticket information, please call 352-392-1653 or visit the University Box Office website. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com. On-campus parking is available at the Reitz Student Union parking garage and the Museum Road parking lot.

Visitors may enjoy an engaging discussion titled “Youth partnering in paleontology: Museums as centers for citizen science” by Robert Ross, associate director for outreach at the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, N.Y.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served after the presentation in the museum’s classroom in Powell Hall on the University of Florida campus.

Ross plans to discuss ways to better engage the public in specimen-based science and a project called “Fossil Finders” that used thousands of fifth- to eighth-graders from around the country to assist with paleontological research.

“I’ll talk about it from a researcher’s perspective — the process of figuring out how to involve non-specialists in ways that are genuinely useful for doing science,” said Ross, who has worked at the Paleontological Research Institution for 15 years and was part of the team that opened the Museum of the Earth in 2003.

Made possible through a donation by Ken and Linda McGurn of Gainesville, the speaker series is designed to highlight ways scientists can better engage the public in research.

“It’s very important to bring science to the people, and what better way to accomplish that than involve them in the process,” Ken McGurn said. “This series provides an opportunity for researchers and students from a variety of disciplines as well as the public to explore the idea together.”

The series continues through the spring with presentations scheduled for March 12, April 9 and May 14. It will resume with four presentations in the fall, scheduled for Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 5 and Dec. 10.

UF has spent four decades helping document and preserve Nantucket, one of America’s most revered historic communities.

This year marks the 40th anniversary for Preservation Institute: Nantucket, the oldest university-run historic preservation field school in the nation, located on an island 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. With its creation, Preservation Institute: Nantucket, or PI:N, filled a gap in opportunities for students to receive hands-on course work in the field and was part of a larger national movement toward historic preservation in the decades to follow.

“Preservation Institute: Nantucket was established at a time when there was a pronounced need for hands-on learning in historic preservation,” said Marty Hylton, director of both PI:N and the College of Design, Construction and Planning’s historic preservation program. “The program played a vital role in helping educate a generation of preservationists and preservation-minded professionals working in allied disciplines.”

Preservation Institute: Nantucket, a hands-on, interdisciplinary program, provides experience in historic preservation from an international perspective while documenting, researching and helping conserve the island’s remarkable heritage. Guest lecturers from public agencies and private organizations introduce topics impacting international cultural heritage conservation.

“The historic preservation field casts a wide net, and PI:N exposes students to many different areas through its activities and guest speakers,” said Chris Berger, 2009 PI:N graduate and architectural historian for Archaeological Consultants Inc., in Sarasota, Fla. “I met so many preservation professionals while at PI:N, from the executive director of an international organization to the director of a local group, from a timber framer to a materials conservator.”

The program was officially established and named at the end of the 1972 season — the first year that the University of Florida offered coursework for credit. For four decades, PI:N has been instrumental in supporting efforts to document and conserve Nantucket’s historic built environment.

“Nantucket is the flagship for historic districts in the U.S.,” said Mark Voigt, administrator for the Nantucket Historic District Commission and a 1987 PI:N graduate. “It’s not the largest, or even the most diverse, but it has a high concentration of pre-civil war and pre-revolutionary war buildings that are still intact. PI:N introduced me to these wonderful historic resources which cemented my desire to work with historic buildings. Without the PI:N program, my understanding of the intricacies of historic buildings would have been woefully incomplete.”

Professor Emeritus F. Blair Reeves, with the help of Turpin Bannister, first president and editor of the Society of Architectural Historians, established historic preservation courses at the University of Florida. Under Reeves’ direction, UF students first worked on Nantucket as part of the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) program. Intellectual and financial support for the early formation of the Preservation Institute: Nantucket came from Walter Beinecke Jr., whose vision and company, Sherburne Associates, played a major role in preserving and shaping the future of Nantucket.

“PI:N is an icon in the world of preservation,” Voigt said. “There are other programs out there that should be commended for what they do, but no program offers what this program does: Nantucket! It’s an original.”

More than 576 participants from institutions all across the nation have attended the Preservation Institute: Nantucket since 1972. Initial participants were primarily architecture and design students. Today, the program reflects the increasingly multifaceted nature of historic preservation with students representing a variety of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, building construction, history, interior design, landscape architecture, material science, museum studies, tourism and urban planning.

“PI:N has played a key role in the education of a number of this country’s preservation professionals,” Berger said. “As the preservation movement continues to grow, it’s important that quality programs such as PI:N continue to nurture tomorrow’s preservation leaders.”

The University of Florida and the College of Design, Construction and Planning have a variety of events to celebrate the milestone, including a “40 Years of PI:N Exhibition,” a gala dinner with tribute to Reeves and Beinecke, and a variety of alumni events. More information about PI:N’s 40th anniversary and a complete event list can be found at http://dcp.ufl.edu/historic-preservation/pin/40th. For more information about the program, please visit http://dcp.ufl.edu/historic-preservation.

Elementary, middle and high school students in Florida who receive an A or E grade in science can present their latest report card at the front desk and receive a free value admission to the “Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway” and “Butterfly Rainforest” exhibits with a paid regular price adult value admission.

Alachua County students receive report cards Feb. 1 and the museum will open the “Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway” exhibit Feb. 4.

The offer is valid until the next report cards are issued. Students receiving another A or E grade on their next report card would again qualify for the offer through the end of the following grading period.

“ ‘A for Science’ is such a popular program that we decided it should not be limited to just a few counties,” said Jaret Daniels, Florida Museum assistant director of exhibits and public programs. “We want to showcase the importance of science statewide, encourage students to do well in school and reward them for receiving outstanding grades.”

The museum extended the program to include students throughout the state in November 2011.

The Butterfly Rainforest is a 6,400-square-foot, lush, tropical garden with hundreds of living butterflies from around the world, including 60 to 80 different species at any given time.

“Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway” features 30 fossils, including a complete skeleton cast of Triceratops horridus, the famous three-horned dinosaur, and an Albertosaurus, a ferocious carnivore that lived about 70 million years ago. The fossils complement 19 color prints and five large-scale murals of Troll’s creative artwork, which illustrates imagined scenes from prehistoric times and brings fossils from the museum’s research collection to life. The exhibit also features a paleontology laboratory where visitors may watch museum scientists, volunteers and students prepare and examine actual fossils from the field.

“Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway” is presented by the Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences Inc. and the Florida Museum Associates Board. The exhibit was organized by the Burke Museum at the University of Washington.

Children younger than 12 must be accompanied by an adult. This offer has no cash value and cannot be combined with other offers or discounts.
For more information about this promotion or other museum events, visit www.flmnh.ufl.edu or call 352-846-2000.

The Fort Lauderdale-based foundation’s gift will establish the Lillian S. Wells Fund for Brain Tumor Research, allowing the university to round out its comprehensive brain tumor program by adding a proven basic science research team to work across the full spectrum of basic, translational and clinical sciences.

“Building on the excellence of the department’s clinical and educational programs, we are committed to strengthening its basic and translational research program,” said Dr. David S. Guzick, senior vice president for health affairs and president of the UF&Shands Health System. “Because of the extraordinary vision and compassion of the Wells Foundation, we will be in a position to utilize laboratory discoveries as a basis for new and better treatments for brain tumor patients.”

The relationship between UF’s neurosurgery department and the Wells Foundation dates back 30 years, with philanthropic support that includes a $5 million gift in 2006 to establish the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy. The center, one of the nation’s leading comprehensive brain tumor programs, improved UF’s research endeavors by creating opportunities for patients to participate in clinical trials.

The ideas for clinical trials often come from basic laboratory research, where scientists develop ideas about mechanisms of disease that lead to new therapies or procedures in patients. UF’s department of neurosurgery, part of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, will recruit an internationally recognized brain tumor scientist to lead the research initiative, Guzick said.

“It is exciting to contemplate future achievements by dovetailing the clinical and research elements at the UF College of Medicine,” said Jim Ulmer, a director of the Wells Foundation. “The Lillian S. Wells Foundation is honored to continue its relationship with the College of Medicine.”

In recognition of the gift, the university will request that the UF Board of Trustees name the department the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery.

Approximately 20,000 new primary brain tumors are diagnosed each year in the U.S. These are tumors that start within the cranium. More than 200,000 metastatic tumors are diagnosed, which are tumors that begin somewhere else in the body such as lung cancer. Brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer death in men ages 20 to 29 and the fifth leading cause of cancer death in women ages 20 to 39.

UF’s Wells Center uses a collaborative approach for treating and investigating brain disease, uniting key health care professionals and closely linking elements of patient care with research. The department performs more than 600 brain tumor procedures annually and cared for 4,500 patients last year, making it one of the 10 largest academic neurosurgical services in the country.

“Our department has been able to develop novel surgical approaches to the treatment of brain diseases,” said Dr. William Friedman, neurosurgery department chair. “These include the patented UF radiosurgery system, improved microsurgical anatomical approaches to the brain based on decades of research, and advanced computer-guided neurosurgical techniques.

“Due to the continued generosity of the Wells Foundation, we are now able to bring one of the world’s best brain tumor research groups to UF,” Friedman said. “Our goal, quite simply, is to create the team of scientists and clinicians who can find substantially better treatments for malignant brain tumors.”

The Wells Foundation gift, combined with matching funds from other university sources, launches a $20 million initiative that will have a significant impact on future brain tumor treatments and produce valuable results for the people of Florida and for people around the world, Friedman said.

Events and programs hosted by the Office of Sustainability and various campus and community organizations will provide a comprehensive look at the intersections of the food system with society, economics and the environment.

Food For Thought will kick off Wednesday with a Farm-To-Table Breakfast from 7:30 to 10 a.m. at Gator Corner, giving attendees the opportunity to learn about the many complexities of the system of food production and the reasons behind choosing to eat seasonally and locally.

Other events will include lectures by notable speakers such as Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post-Carbon Institute and author of “The End of Growth,” on March 14, and Gerald Nelson of the Food Policy Research Institute on March 29, a Do-It-Yourself Series of interactive events on canning your own food, composting food waste and gardening at home, an open house and spring fling at the Downtown Community Farmers Garden, a Sustainable Sweets Soiree, a food and social justice community forum, a family fun day at the Downtown Seed Library and tours of some local farms.

The Office of Sustainability will partner with the Florida Museum of Natural History to host a screening on of the documentary “Vanishing of the Bees” on Feb. 29 as part of the Cinema Verde Gainesville Environmental Film Festival. The film highlights the importance of honeybees in pollinating fruit and vegetable crops and the impact of colony collapse disorder on the future of agriculture.

“This campaign will provide food for thought for everyone to consider the methods of food production, distribution and consumption and how it affects the sustainability of our communities, natural spaces and health,” said Anna Prizzia, director of the Office of Sustainability. “We’re excited about the many and varied partnerships that have helped make three months of programming possible, and look forward to promoting the opportunities and resources that exist right in our own community.”

UF will celebrate its campuswide Earth Day on April 6 with a Farmer’s Market and Food Fair featuring local farmers, fresh produce and UF departments and student organizations related to food sustainability. The Food For Thought campaign will culminate with the Local Food Challenge on April 26 at Fresh Food Company, a dining hall at UF.

For more information, the full schedule of events and to sign up for weekly “Food For Thought Thursday” email updates visit www.sustainability.ufl.edu/food.