GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Juliana Barr, University of Florida assistant professor of history, was recently awarded one of the top international book awards for female historians. Barr received the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Books Prize for her first book, “Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.” The book [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It was 1971 when Seigfred Fagerberg said hello to the University of Florida’s College of Health and Human Performance. About 60,000 students, more than 1,000 recommendations, 25 courses and 11 college textbooks later, Fagerberg is saying goodbye.
When Fagerberg came to Gainesville 37 years ago, it was to visit a fraternity brother finishing [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — Public radio station WJUF-FM, Nature Coast 90.1 has entered the digital HD era. The 21,000 watt public radio station serves the Citrus, Hernando and Sumter County region with a simulcast of the WUFT-FM, Classic 89.1 signal. The stations are a public service of the University of Florida College [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Doug Gregory, Florida Sea Grant marine extension agent in Key West, Fla., and LeRoy Creswell, a Florida Sea Grant marine extension faculty member with St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension in Fort Pierce, Fla., have recently received awards.
Gregory is one of six individuals nationwide who earlier this month was honored in Washington [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Charlie Crist last week announced the members of the fourth class of the Gubernatorial Fellowship Program. Students participating in the program will gain first-hand experience into how state government operates.
“I commend this class of fellows for choosing to learn more about the high calling of public service to the people of [...]
Undergraduate Hananie Albert — an anthropology, English and French triple major — has been awarded a prestigious Beinecke Scholarship, which will enable her to pursue a graduate degree in the humanities and social sciences. She plans to use the $34,000 award to obtain a doctorate in Africana studies after she receives a bachelor’s degree in [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida doctoral student Patricia Roset-Zuppa is the recipient of the ING Clarion “Most Outstanding Article Award” given by the Cornell Real Estate Review, a student-edited and managed real estate journal. The award is given each year to the student with the most distinguished article that appears in the Review.
Roset-Zuppa’s article, [...]