GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two professors in the University of Florida’s College of Human and Health Performance were selected as official volunteers by the Beijing Olympic Committee.
James Zhang and Daniel Connaughton will leave for Beijing on Monday and return to Gainesville on Aug. 27, two days after the closing ceremony.
This opportunity resulted from the college’s relationship [...]
Updated: June 9, 2008
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With the 2008 hurricane season officially under way, the following University of Florida sources are available to speak to the news media about a variety of storm- and hurricane-related topics.
HURRICANE PREPARATIONS
Hurricane-proofing homes: Bob Stroh is a research professor in the Rinker School of Building Construction and director of the [...]
WHO: University of Florida wind engineering faculty and graduate and undergraduate students.
WHAT: Demonstration of massive hurricane simulator and other unique equipment intended to mimic the effects of hurricanes as part of UF research aimed at toughening homes against the big storms. Researchers will use the 2,800-horsepower machine to blast a large mockup of a house [...]
WHO: University of Florida President Bernie Machen
WHAT: Machen is announcing UF’s budget cuts today and will hold a news conference to answer questions about those cuts.
WHEN: 4 p.m. today.
WHERE: President’s Conference Room, Tigert Hall, Room 226.
BACKGROUND: Machen has asked deans to create plans for reducing their budgets by 6 percent for the [...]
WHO: University of Florida President Bernie Machen and Berit Johne, counselor for science at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, will be among those present at a reception to honor John Thompson, UF professor of mathematics who has won the Abel Prize. Johne will read a congratulatory message from the Norwegian ambassador.
WHAT: An opportunity to see presentations by 16 University of Florida start-up companies in areas including life sciences, medical devices and information technology that are commercializing the latest in cutting-edge technologies.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq approaches, anti-war groups are turning to tactics designed to provoke authorities to make arrests as a substitute for the kind of mass rallies they organized in the past, says a University of Florida researcher.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Losses in Tuesday’s presidential primaries in Texas and Ohio could end Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic nomination, but her campaign is already an interesting study of the current state of women in politics.
WHO: Children and staff of Baby Gator Child Development and Research Center, plus prominent Gators such as Chris Machen, wife of University of Florida President Bernie Machen.
WHAT: Groundbreaking for the Pathogens Research Facility, a $56 million, 80,000-square-foot building that will house the Emerging Pathogens Institute. EPI is an interdisciplinary effort to respond to the threat of emerging and rapidly growing diseases for plants, animals and humans. This threat is especially acute in Florida.