University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced its 2007-2008 Museum Associates Board.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History recently completed several major projects to help educate the public about the state’s native butterflies and wildflowers.
Funded with a $94,409 grant from the state of Florida, Florida Wildflower Advisory Council and the Florida Wildflower Foundation Inc., the “Educating the Public about Florida’s Wildflowers and Butterflies” project [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2007 Austin Award, given annually by the museum’s University Teaching Committee to recognize excellence in natural science research, and the 2007 Ripley P. Bullen Award, named after an influential Florida Museum archaeologist of the 1940s and 1950s.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Joseph Adrian Tyndall has been appointed interim chairman of the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of emergency medicine, effective Aug. 15. He takes over the post vacated by Dr. David C. Seaberg, who last week was named dean of the University of Tennessee’s regional medical campus in Chattanooga.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida Police Department Lt. Darren Baxley and 298 other law enforcement officers graduated June 8 from the FBI National Academy Program at Quantico, Va.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Ocala Royal Dames for Cancer Research Inc. has awarded $25,000 grants to three UF Shands Cancer Center researchers.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Michael G. Perri has been named interim dean of the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, effective June 18.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — D. Grant McFadden, program director of the University of Florida College of Medicine’s Emerging Pathogens Initiative, has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With his set design for “Waiting for Godot,” a University of Florida graduate student in the College of Fine Arts clinched first place in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s scenic design competition in Washington, D.C., April 22.