GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s Hispanic population will significantly outpace the state’s non-Hispanic white and black populations over the next 25 years, largely because of migration and high birth rates among this relatively young group of migrants, according to the latest projections from the University of Florida.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — By analyzing nearly a century of data, University of Florida researchers have been able to prove definitively that mercury levels in the Everglades have dropped dramatically during the last decade after reaching dangerously high levels in the early 1990s.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Like Radio Free Europe was to those behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, black radio stations and disc jockeys often were as important as ministers and politicians in mobilizing support for the civil rights movement of the 1960s, says a University of Florida researcher.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of ornithology’s oldest pursuits, the study of migration, is heading south.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Summer reading lists for University of Florida faculty members will have one title in common this year - one that UF President Bernie Machen has asked them to read as part of an effort to raise diversity awareness.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — "Junk Food Junkie," that novelty song from the ’70s, may contain more medical truth than anyone imagined.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When the summer Olympic Games begin in Athens next month, the event will mark a return not only to the games’ ancient roots but also to its modern ones.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Though widely perceived as "unnatural" harmful to wildlife, lakefront residential developments actually appear to be favored hangouts for many water birds, according to a University of Florida study.