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UF law professor honored by The Florida Bar
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida law professor Michael Seigel has become the second UF faculty member to be honored as a co-recipient of The Florida Bar’s 2008 Faculty Professionalism Award. Seigel received the award in recognition of his commitment to instilling the ideals and values of the legal profession through teaching, scholarship and service. […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on July 23, 2008.
Web site selected to Hall of Fame
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Collectors Weekly, a Web site for collectors and antique enthusiasts, recently selected the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Web site, http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/baldwin.html , for its Hall of Fame.
The Collectors Weekly highlights Web sites with deep reference content reflecting unique collections which demonstrate “a passion for collecting.” Baldwin […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on July 17, 2008.
Steve Shugan among inaugural INFORMS marketing fellows recipients
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Leading market researchers in the U.S. and Canada were honored in Hanover, Md., on Friday by the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS). The group announced that Steven M. Shugan, marketing professor and Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida, was one of the inaugural 10 recipients of its new Fellow Award. […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on July 15, 2008.
Richard Lutz receives Sherwin-Williams Distinguished Teaching Award
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Richard Lutz, JCPenney professor of marketing at the University of Florida, recently was named one of three recipients to receive the 2008 Sherwin-Williams Distinguished Teaching Award.
The award, now in its 11th year, will be presented by the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) at its annual conference Nov. 4 – 9 in […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on July 14, 2008.
Tourism Institute hosts symposium for Florida destinations
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Tourism Crisis Management Institute at the University of Florida recently hosted a symposium on Tourism Crisis Management for Destinations on June 25. The event was held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center in conjunction with the Florida Association of Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Destination Marketing Industry Summit.
All attendees […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on July 11, 2008.
Brain Institute director honored by Italian scientists, leaders
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dennis Steindler, executive director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, recently was honored for his contributions to neuroscience at a ceremony with officials from the Catholic University in Rome, the university’s teaching hospital — the Gemelli University Polyclinic — and the Italian government.
Steindler […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on July 8, 2008.
UF history professor wins international book prize
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Juliana Barr, University of Florida assistant professor of history, was recently awarded one of the top international book awards for female historians. Barr received the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Books Prize for her first book, “Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands.” The book […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on June 26, 2008.
HHP professor to retire after 37 years
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It was 1971 when Seigfred Fagerberg said hello to the University of Florida’s College of Health and Human Performance. About 60,000 students, more than 1,000 recommendations, 25 courses and 11 college textbooks later, Fagerberg is saying goodbye.
When Fagerberg came to Gainesville 37 years ago, it was to visit a fraternity brother finishing […]
Filed under Seen and Heard on June 18, 2008.
WUFT-FM converts second station, WJUF-FM, to HD
Gainesville, Fla. — Public radio station WJUF-FM, Nature Coast 90.1 has entered the digital HD era. The 21,000 watt public radio station serves the Citrus, Hernando and Sumter County region with a simulcast of the WUFT-FM, Classic 89.1 signal. The stations are a public service of the University of Florida College […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on June 16, 2008.
Marine extension agent and faculty member receive awards
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Doug Gregory, Florida Sea Grant marine extension agent in Key West, Fla., and LeRoy Creswell, a Florida Sea Grant marine extension faculty member with St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension in Fort Pierce, Fla., have recently received awards.
Gregory is one of six individuals nationwide who earlier this month was honored in […]
Filed under Seen and Heard, Announcements on June 12, 2008.