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Ed Gilman, a professor of environmental horticulture, was recently named by the International Society of Arboriculture as the recipient of the 2007 L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboricultural Research. The award recognizes research that has contributed valuable information to arboriculture. Gilman has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research studies and authored six books; his current work [...]

The University of Florida College of Pharmacy has been named one of eight pharmacy schools to receive the Academic-Practice Partnership for Learning Excellence Award. Also called the Crystal Apple Award, the designation from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy was created to improve pharmacy education and practice by encouraging quality professional experience programs. UF [...]

Team Gator Nation recently won a spot in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge semi-finals after University of Florida engineers turned a 2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid into a fully autonomous driving machine for this year’s competition.
On Oct. 26-31, Team Gator Nation will compete in the Urban Challenge National Qualification Event. If the team qualifies as a [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Museum of Natural History Distinguished Research Curator of Archaeology Kathleen Deagan was recently honored during a ceremony in St. Augustine with the prestigious Order of La Florida award.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Distinguished professor of physics Arthur Hebard, together with professors Jun Akimitsu of Aoyama-Gakuin University and Robert Haddon of the University of California-Riverside, has been named the 2008 recipient of the American Physical Society’s James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials for the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in non-oxide systems.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Recently, Mark McLellan, research dean for the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, was the keynote speaker at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Annual Science Day. McLellan told the group of approximately 200 scientists, regulators and policy makers, that he expects science to take quantum-leap strides in areas such as nanotechnology and bioinformatics. He also spoke about ways in which food science relates to national security.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Janaki Alavalapati, a professor of forest resource economics and policy, has been named a Jefferson Science Fellow with the U.S. Department of State. He will be an adviser on foreign policy and international relations matters during his 12-month appointment. Alavalapati is the first university faculty member from the state of Florida to receive this distinction.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida MBA program was named No. 17 among U.S. public schools in the 2007 edition of the annual “Which MBA?” guide. Published by The Economist Intelligence Unit, the guide provides background information on the world’s Top 100 MBA programs.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Gator Green Project is underway as residents of Maguire Village and University Village South (UVS) on the University of Florida campus plant community gardens to get to know their neighbors.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thanks to a “Museums for America” $133,000 grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Florida Museum of Natural History will produce a series of educational programs for teachers and students in the Gainesville area and around the world.