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Pugh Hall opens in historic district

The Jim and Alexis Pugh Hall recently opened and is home to the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. The 40,000-square-foot facility has been constructed over the past year in the heart of the University of Florida’s historic district [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Friday, January 18, 2008.

CLAS professor becomes honorary member

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Peter Rudnytsky, professor of English, will be inducted as a new honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association at the organization’s annual meeting later this month in New York.
Rudnytsky is recognized by the association for his commitment to the advancement of psychoanalysis. In a press release, the association said, “The renown [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Tuesday, January 15, 2008.

Fla. Museum receives $186,000 for DNA bar-coding project

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History received $186,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Tuesday to identify and prepare 25,000 marine specimens as part of a new international DNA barcoding project .
Florida Museum invertebrate zoology researchers will analyze specimens from about 5,000 species in the museum’s collections for barcoding, or genetic sequencing. [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Friday, January 4, 2008.