University of Florida News

Huisheng Xie, an animal acupuncture specialist, was featured Dec. 28 on the CBS News program “The Early Show.”
See related news release.

International Center Dean Dennis Jett was quoted in a Dec. 27 Christian Science Monitor (circ. 71,527) story about an American woman who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Peru for terrorism.

UF’s new Center for Food Distribution and Retailing was the subject of a Dec. 26 story in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (circ. 375,145) . The story was the result of a news release.

Lincoln Brower, a professor emeritus of zoology, was quoted in a Dec. 25 story in the Los Angeles Times (circ. 955,211) about armed guards protecting monarch butterflies’ winter nesting grounds in Mexico.

Dr. Giselle Carnaby-Mann, a research scientist in the department of psychiatry, was quoted in a Dec. 23 Reuters news service story about her study showing that tablets that dissolve on contact with saliva without the need for water may help people with swallowing difficulties take their pills.

The videoconference marriage of a U.S. Marine stationed in Africa and his bride in Florida made possible in part with videoconference equipment at UF’s Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Balm, Fla., was featured Dec. 22 on ABC’s “Good morning America” as well as Dec. 23 in the St. Petersburg Times (circ. 442,348) [...]

Ecologist Brian Silliman’s research showing that snails are to blame for the decline of salt marshes along U.S. coastlines was the subject of a Dec. 21 story in the Christian Science Monitor (circ. 71,527) The monitor story also ran in USA Today (circ. 2.3 million). These stories were the result of a news release.

A new endowed professorship in the College of Education that honors former Miami Herald publisher David Lawrence Jr. was the subject of a brief in the Dec. 21 Miami Herald (circ. 444,119) The story was the result of a news release.

Gary Butcher, a specialist in poultry medicine and disease at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, was quoted in a Dec. 20 story in the Wall Street Journal (circ. 2.1 million) about the latest updates on the Avian flu. The journal is a paid subscription so no link is available.

Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in a Dec. 19 Reuters news service story about Baidu.com, the Chinese Web search engine.