http://insideuf.ufl.edu Your campus news source Thu, 15 May 2008 13:10:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Take a musical journey this summer with University of Florida Performing Arts’ "Summer in the City" series. With eight different shows to choose from, you can travel the spectrum of musical fun and family entertainment – all right here in the heart of Florida. Take the A-Train ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/15/perf-arts-summer/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Kenneth K. Lowman, program evaluator for the University of Florida’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers’ leadership team and adjunct finance professor in the College of Health and Human Performance, recently was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to serve on the department’s summer Institute ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/14/lowman/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Two new scholarships were recently awarded to College of Fine Arts School of Theatre and Dance students at the University of Florida. A newly formed support group, The Friends of Theatre and Dance, created and funded the two $750 annual scholarships that were awarded in the Constans ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/12/arts-scholarships/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Shibu Jose, an IFAS forestry researcher, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 2009 by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. During the 2009 spring semester, he will be based in Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, where he will teach and do research ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/12/jose-fulbright/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Peter Stoffella has been named director of the Indian River Research and Education Center, an appointment that became effective May 5. Stoffella, a horticulture professor with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, had served as the center’s interim director for 11 months. He served ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/09/irec-director/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- ABC News will open a mini-bureau in the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications in September. UF is among five U.S. universities chosen for the ABC News On Campus program. Students will work as staffers in each of the bureaus, contributing story ideas and using equipment ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/08/abc-news-on-campus/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Children in grades K-5 are invited to join the Florida Museum of Natural History 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. May 10 for its Let’s Explore Science Series program “Why Monkeys Choose to Live in Trees.” Participants will discover African oral traditions about monkeys and how the animals ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/08/monkeys-in-trees/ GAINESVILLE, Fla.--- The annual Independence Day Eve celebration, Fanfares & Fireworks, which was previously cancelled has been rescheduled. The event now will take place on Thursday, July 3 at 7 p.m. at the University of Florida Bandshell at Flavet Field. The event will be a gift to the community, thanks ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/07/fanfares-and-fireworks-will-take-place-on-july-3/ GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The University of Florida M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction will take six students to Tanzania for a research project this summer as part of the new International Research Experience in East Africa, a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/07/east-africa/ Letter from J. Bernard Machen, President 5/5/2008 In response to the budget adopted last Friday by the Florida Legislature, we are today announcing cuts that correspond to declining state revenues. Some of those budget reductions are outlined below. I asked each vice president, dean and director to reduce spending by ... http://insideuf.ufl.edu/2008/05/05/uf-budget-for-fiscal-year-2008-09-to-be-reduced-by-47-million/