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UF researchers go high-tech to fight invasive plants

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jim Cuda is a matchmaker, but he doesn’t help lonely hearts find love. He finds organisms to fight invasive plants running amok in Florida.
An associate professor of entomology, Cuda is one of several scientists with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences who researches insects and pathogens that keep the pest plants [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

Intramural team is flagged as national champions

Titletown has struck again.
Even though the University of Florida is the proud winner of two NCAA basketball championships and one football championship in a little more than a year, a group of students decided that simply wasn’t enough.
For the first time since 1989, the University of Florida intramural flag football men’s team has earned the [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, February 12, 2008.

Garden springs to life as renewed community sanctuary

Various pieces of literature, art and songs have a “forgotten garden” theme, and there’s no need to look far to find the University of Florida’s own forgotten garden.
It was a different era when the once-thriving gardens at the corner of Gale Lemerand Drive and Mowry Road were a Gainesville tourist attraction, popular wedding site and [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Florida legislators tour UF energy research labs

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four members of the Florida House of Representatives and their staff on Friday toured University of Florida laboratories devoted to ethanol, fuel-cell and a range of other energy related technologies. They also visited a biofuel pilot plant and heard presentations from UF researchers.
“We’re doing a lot of energy-related research here at UF, [...]

Filed under In Focus on Friday, January 18, 2008.

New online campus map displays sustainability features

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida campus map, http://campusmap.ufl.edu, has recently added a new set of tools highlighting locations around campus that incorporate sustainable initiatives.
These new tools, which can be found under the “Map Features” dialog, offer locations and information on a number of a sustainable campus features, such as flex car parking, sustainable [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, January 15, 2008.