University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Leadership Development Institute and Disney Institute are offering three one-day workshops where business leaders can learn the keys to Disney’s exceptional customer service.
Participants in “Achieving Success through Exceptional Service” should expect to learn the knowledge and skills to create a service-driven organization. The full-day workshop will [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new kind of computer forecast could save Florida residents and the state millions of dollars in hurricane damages to the fragile web of utilities that carries electrical power across the state, says a University of Florida energy researcher.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida has been awarded a $450,000 faculty development grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to help meet the growing need for educated and trained workers in the nuclear power industry, according to the agency.
“The NRC Faculty Development Grant is very valuable to our department and comes at a time [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Marine sponges may not look like apartment buildings, but to shrimps, juvenile lobsters and other animals in Florida Bay, the puffy filter-feeders provide one of the few safe places to live.
In 2007, harmful algae blooms killed sponges in large tracts of the shallow lagoon, where fresh water draining from the Everglades meets [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida faculty continue to excel at securing research funding, even in a weak economy. Last year, nearly 2,000 faculty received $574 million in research awards, a 2.2 percent increase over the previous fiscal year.