GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Timothy Wheeler, a professor and chair of the University of Florida College of Dentistry’s Department of Orthodontics and assistant dean for Advanced and Graduate Education, has been appointed as the Academy 100 Eminent Scholar Chair.
The Academy 100 is a scholarship society established through the Florida Dental Association in the 1960s to [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Alumni Association recognized 31 former UF students at the 2009 Outstanding Young Alumni Awards on April 18 at Emerson Alumni Hall.
The Outstanding Young Alumni Award honors alumni age 35 and younger who have excelled in their professions and communities. The award recognition ceremony was established in 2006 by [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– The University of Florida Student Health Care Center has selected Dr. Phillip Barkley and Rizan Yozgat as the recipients of two prestigious awards.
Barkley, director of the Student Health Care Center, received the C. Arthur Sandeen “Improving the Quality of Life” Award given to honor individuals who demonstrate a commitment to improving [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Steven George, an assistant professor in the department of physical therapy at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, recently received the John C. Liebeskind Early Career Scholar Award from the American Pain Society. The award recognizes early career achievements that have made outstanding contributions to pain scholarship. George received the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Prudential-Davis Productivity Awards, an annual program honoring state government employees throughout Florida, has announced its winners for 2009. These winners include seven 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 [...]
More than 350 employees recently gathered at the University of Florida’s Reitz Student Union Grand Ballroom for the 2009 Superior Accomplishment Awards ceremony. The annual program recognizes staff and faculty members who contribute outstanding and meritorious service, efficiency and/or economy to the quality of life for students and employees.
The Superior Accomplishment Awards are presented [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded a $100,000 grant to the Harn Museum of Art in July 2008. The grant, which is the largest national foundation grant given to support an exhibition at the Harn Museum of Art, will partially fund Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible. Recently, the museum [...]