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Scientists join forces to explain HIV spread in central and east Africa

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scientists studying biology and geography may seem worlds apart, but together they have answered a question that has defied explanation about the spread of the HIV-1 epidemic in Africa.

Filed under Health, Research, Sciences on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

Sea level stargazing: Astronomers make key sighting with Fla. telescope

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — This summer, University of Florida astronomers inaugurated the world’s largest optical telescope on a nearly 8,000-foot mountaintop 3,480 miles away.
But it was a far more modest observatory, located just above sea level in rural Levy County and just down the road from the UF campus, that proved key to a new discovery [...]

Filed under Astronomy, Research, Sciences on Monday, September 28, 2009.

Sophisticated telescope camera debuts with peek at nest of black holes

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Less than two months after they inaugurated the world’s largest telescope, University of Florida astronomers have used one of the world’s most advanced telescopic instruments to gather images of the heavens.

Filed under Astronomy, Research, Sciences on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.

UF researcher receives $900,000 grant for worldwide human lice study

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida mammalogist David Reed has received a $900,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study the evolutionary biology of human lice.

Filed under Natural History, Research, Sciences on Monday, September 14, 2009.