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UF student to appear on ‘The Price is Right’ television show

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida student will appear on Tuesday’s episode of “The Price Is Right,” a popular game show on the CBS network.
Kristin Lundy, a senior in the College of Health and Human Performance, is a long-time fan of “The Price Is Right” and was excited to get tickets to a taping [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Friday, March 28, 2008.

UF staff recognized by State of Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Davis Productivity Awards, an annual program honoring state government employees throughout Florida, has announced its winners for 2008. These winners include 12 teams or individuals from the University of Florida.
In addition to honoring “innovation, creativity, and smart work,” the awards program recognizes individuals and work units that have adapted or implemented [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Wednesday, March 26, 2008.

UF alumnus receives historic preservation award

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rolando Rivas-Camp, director for the Center for Historic Buildings at the U.S. General Services Administration, was awarded the University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning’s 2008 Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Achievement Award, the college announced today.
The annual award recognizes an individual who exemplifies the spirit of historic preservation in Florida. It is [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Thursday, March 20, 2008.

UF graduates win College Emmy

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two graduates of the University of Florida Documentary Institute recently won an Emmy at the 29th annual College Television Awards in Los Angeles for their thesis project, “Bismillah: In the Name of Allah.”
Jolene Pinder and Sarah Zaman, who received their master’s degrees from UF’s College of Journalism and Communications last year, won [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Thursday, March 20, 2008.

Management professors chosen as editors

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jason Colquitt and Jeffery LePine, both full professors in the Warrington College of Business Administration’s department of Management, were selected as the associate editors of two of the leading journals in management research.
Colquitt was selected as an associate editor of Academy of Management Journal. LePine accepted the position of associate editor for [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

Professor wins Clyde Ferguson Award

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida Law Professor Berta E. Hernández-Truyol has been awarded the 16th annual Clyde Ferguson Award from the Minority Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The honor, named for one of the first African-American tenured professors at Harvard Law School, is “granted to an outstanding law teacher [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Monday, March 17, 2008.

Faculty members named Sloan Research Fellows

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced that two University of Florida scientists have been named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows among 116 of their national peers.
Christopher Jermaine and Ivan K. Furic have been conducting research at the frontiers of physics and computer science with the University of Florida and have received [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Monday, March 17, 2008.

Business undergraduates earn first place

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four Warrington College of Business Administration students earned first place at the 18th Annual Undergraduate Marketing Case Challenge. Sarah Anassori, Matthew Kuhl, Sashi Mylavarapu and Catherine Nguyen devised ways to strengthen Alltel’s future response to natural disasters. Alltel’s chief marketing officer commented that he was particularly impressed with the integrity of the [...]

Filed under Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Monday, March 17, 2008.