GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Joseph W. Alba, UF Distinguished Professor of Marketing, has received one of the highest honors in the field of marketing research, the Paul D. Converse Award. Alba currently serves as chair of the department of Marketing.
The Paul D. Converse award, established in 1946 by the American Marketing association, is granted to individuals [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Linda Bartoshuk, a professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, was recently elected to a three-year term of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS is charged with providing independent advice, outside the framework of government, to the nation’s leaders on science, technology and medicine issues affecting U.S. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — David Leavitt, professor of English, recently was named as one of four finalists in the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Leavitt received the award for “The Indian Clerk,” a historical fiction novel. Leavitt is the author of six other novels and four collections of short fiction.
GAINESVILLE, FLa. — UF alumnus and Japan Gator Club member Sachio Semmoto recently was featured in two international magazines. Semmoto — who earned a master’s and doctorate degree in engineering at the University of Florida — was profiled in the Feb. 7 issue of “The Economist” and the March 24 issue of “Forbes.”
Both magazines touted [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — College of Agriculture and Life Sciences graduate students Amy Daniels and Tim Durham have been selected to receive full scholarships to the Philippines this summer to attend the Rice Short Course offered by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Amy Daniels is a NASA Research Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in interdisciplinary ecology, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ken Sassaman, associate professor of anthropology, has been awarded the Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society for his book “People of the Shoals: Stallings Culture of the Savannah River Valley.” The annual James Mooney Award recognizes distinguished anthropological scholarship concerning the South and Southerners.