GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction at the University of Florida inducted William R. “Rick” Derrer, president of James A. Cummings, Inc., into the school’s Construction Hall of Fame as part of the school’s homecoming activities.
Derrer, in the construction industry for 33 years, also serves as a member of the [...]
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Graduate students from the University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning Historic Preservation Program will give a public presentation at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sala de Montiano Auditorium in the Government House at 48 King St. The students will share their preservation and design solutions in neighborhood conservation [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Christopher Silver, dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning, was recently awarded the Laurence C. Gerckens Prize at the biennial Society for American City and Regional Planning History conference in Portland, Maine. The prize is awarded once every two years to a scholar-teacher who has demonstrated sustained excellence in the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Animal sciences professor Peter Hansen has been named a 2007 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The award honors efforts to advance scientific applications deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.
Hansen was among 471 AAAS members named fellow this year, and the only one from UF. He was selected for [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Catherine Emihovich, dean of UF’s College of Education, has been reappointed as chairwoman of the board of directors for the Florida Fund for Minority Teachers, Inc. Also known as FFMT, the Fund was created by the Legislature in 1999 to attract minority students to teacher-education programs at universities within the state, and [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Harn Museum of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Steuber as Cofrin Curator of Asian Art.
Steuber has more than 10 years of experience as a museum professional with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., including four years as Assistant Curator of Chinese Art. He was [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.— The University of Florida Trial Team brought home a national title at the St. John’s University National Civil Rights Trial Competition in Jamaica, N.Y.
After an intense three-day competition on Oct. 18-20, team members and third-year law students Jessica Anderson, Frank Gaulden, Alicia Philip and Justin Stevens defeated 15 teams from across the country [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Matthew Fajack, executive director of financial affairs at Kent State University in Ohio, has been named vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Florida, effective Jan. 1.
Matthew Fajack, 47, will be the first person to fill the newly established position, which will provide strategic leadership, analysis, planning and recommendations [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction at the University of Florida will induct William R. “Rick” Derrer, president of James A. Cummings Inc., into the school’s Construction Hall of Fame at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 3 as part of the school’s homecoming activities.
The Construction Hall of Fame was established in the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Subaru is sponsoring a unique program geared toward helping marketing students, professors and clients work together in order to apply real-world situations to classroom material. Students from eight U.S. universities, including the University of Florida, will promote the Subaru Impreza product line to a key target market, their fellow college peers.
The [...]