LA PALMA, Canary Islands — Telescopes are tools for observation. But on Friday, one was the star.
More than 500 astronomers, government officials and journalists from three continents — including the King and Queen of Spain — gathered on this tiny island to inaugurate the Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world’s largest telescope.
Seven astronomers and officials [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The federal Economic Development Administration has awarded the University of Florida an $8.2 million grant to help create the Florida Innovation Hub at UF, a facility officials describe as a “super incubator.”
The 45,000-square-foot facility, slated to be built on what is now a parking lot at Shands AGH, will nurture start-up companies [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced some top-level administrative changes.
Dean Paul D’Anieri has named three new associate deans: Alan Dorsey, Debra Walker King, and Milagros Peña. In addition, current Associate Dean David Richardson has been named senior associate dean. The new deans will start Aug. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When Oprah Winfrey reads a book, millions of readers follow – and this summer, they will be reading the works of two University of Florida English professors.
For her 2009 “25 Books You Can’t Put Down” Summer Reading List, Winfrey selected Mary Robison’s “One D.O.A., One on the Way” and Jill Ciment’s “Heroic [...]
Russell M. Bauer, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of clinical and health psychology in the College of Public Health and Health Professions, has been elected president of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), the largest scientific organization in the field. Bauer is the fourth University of Florida faculty member to be elected to the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An associate dean and longtime professor of materials science and engineering who earned her doctorate from Stanford University will become the University of Florida College of Engineering’s first female dean.
Cammy Abernathy, the engineering college’s associate dean for academic affairs, will start as UF’s ninth dean of engineering July 17, Provost Joe Glover [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, through its new Division of Multimedia Properties, will expand National Public Radio programming on WUFT-FM and its affiliate station, WJUF-FM, beginning Aug. 3.
The change is part of an overall commitment to expanded national and local news and public affairs coverage to better serve the [...]