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‘Second China’ offers foreign service workers first impression

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Diplomats or military envoys making their first trip to China may soon have a chance to visit a Chinese office building, stop in at a traditional teahouse or hop a cab — all before they board a plane.

Filed under Engineering, Research, Sciences, Technology on Wednesday, October 29, 2008.

Created in part by UF, world’s largest computing grid to launch today

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The world’s largest computing grid, pioneered in part by University of Florida researchers, will be launched today to crunch the mammoth amounts of data expected to be produced by the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Europe.

Filed under Engineering, Research, Sciences on Friday, October 3, 2008.

UF, Berkeley receive $4 million grant to continue mapping with lasers

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The National Science Foundation recently awarded a five-year $4 million renewal grant to researchers at the University of Florida and the University of California at Berkeley for the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, known as NCALM.

Filed under Engineering, Research on Wednesday, October 1, 2008.