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MyPyramid for Older Adults poster helps increase nutrition knowledge

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eating well as you age can be tricky. You generally need fewer calories, but the foods you do eat must pack a nutritious punch.

Filed under Research, Health, Aging on Tuesday, July 22, 2008.

Fun at work makes it easier for employees to function on the job

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Having fun in the workplace is no joke when it comes to boosting employee productivity, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Business on Thursday, July 17, 2008.

UF plans to create ‘media farm’ for innovation, research

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An initiative to create a new Center for Media Innovation and Research was announced today by University of Florida President Bernie Machen and John Wright, dean of UF’s College of Journalism and Communications.

Filed under Research on Wednesday, July 16, 2008.

Scientists close in on source of X-rays in lightning

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike.

Filed under Research, Engineering, Environment, Sciences on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.

Physicists tweak quantum force, reducing barrier to tiny devices

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Cymbals don’t clash of their own accord – in our world, anyway.

Filed under Research, Sciences on Monday, July 14, 2008.

Future doctors share too much on Facebook, UF researchers say

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Would it bother you to know that your physician smokes cigars and likes to do “keg stands”? That your gynecologist was a member of a group called “I Hate Medical School”? That your urologist is a fan of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”?

Filed under Research, Health, Education on Thursday, July 10, 2008.

Long-term care fraught with uncertainties for elderly baby boomers

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The continued decline of the nursing home – once the mainstay care for the frail elderly – and an upsurge in popularity of assisted living will lead to many dramatic changes in long-term care, according to a University of Florida expert and editor of a new book on the subject.

Filed under Research, Health, Aging, Gender on Wednesday, July 9, 2008.

Research shows contraception could control problem parakeets

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When monk parakeets began to infiltrate the United States in the 1960s, some feared they would ravage farm crops as they often had in their native South America.

Filed under Research, Environment, Florida on Tuesday, July 8, 2008.

Florida’s rental markets latest to suffer ill effects in housing crunch

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The spread of “For Rent” signs is the latest bad news as Florida’s real estate market declines in all forms of rentals, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Business, Florida on Monday, July 7, 2008.

New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot.

Filed under Research, Environment, Agriculture on Thursday, July 3, 2008.