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Florida Museum’s Randell Center completes Pineland tree planting program
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Randell Research Center in Pineland recently completed a two-year program to plant more than 800 native trees.
Volunteers donated nearly $40,000 in labor costs to plant more than 30 species of trees at the state-owned Pineland archaeological site and at the Lee County-owned Gill House property, […]
Filed under UF In Focus on April 25, 2008.
Students speak out against local drinking and driving
Drunken mistake No. 41 is going home with a Seminole — but at least you didn’t drive.
Posters around Gainesville listing similar drunken mistakes, including buying shots for the whole bar, are part of a local anti-drinking and driving campaign to remind students that although people do stupid things while drinking, nothing is worse than choosing […]
Filed under UF In Focus on April 14, 2008.
Research proves snuff is still very dangerous stuff
High school- and college-age smokers who look to smokeless tobacco as a stepping-stone to quitting are in for a rude awakening—this “lesser of two evils” will still cause cancer and other significant health risks.
Dr. Scott Tomar, department chairman and professor of community dentistry at the University of Florida’s College of Dentistry, and University of […]
Filed under UF In Focus on April 1, 2008.
UF researchers go high-tech to fight invasive plants
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jim Cuda is a matchmaker, but he doesn’t help lonely hearts find love. He finds organisms to fight invasive plants running amok in Florida.
An associate professor of entomology, Cuda is one of several scientists with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences who researches insects and pathogens that keep the pest plants […]
Filed under UF In Focus on March 18, 2008.
Intramural team is flagged as national champions
Titletown has struck again.
Even though the University of Florida is the proud winner of two NCAA basketball championships and one football championship in a little more than a year, a group of students decided that simply wasn’t enough.
For the first time since 1989, the University of Florida intramural flag football men’s team has earned […]
Filed under UF In Focus on February 12, 2008.
Garden springs to life as renewed community sanctuary
Various pieces of literature, art and songs have a “forgotten garden” theme, and there’s no need to look far to find the University of Florida’s own forgotten garden.
It was a different era when the once-thriving gardens at the corner of Gale Lemerand Drive and Mowry Road were a Gainesville tourist attraction, popular wedding site and […]
Filed under UF In Focus on January 29, 2008.
Florida legislators tour UF energy research labs
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four members of the Florida House of Representatives and their staff on Friday toured University of Florida laboratories devoted to ethanol, fuel-cell and a range of other energy related technologies. They also visited a biofuel pilot plant and heard presentations from UF researchers.
“We’re doing a lot of energy-related research here at […]
Filed under UF In Focus on January 18, 2008.
New online campus map displays sustainability features
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida campus map, http://campusmap.ufl.edu, has recently added a new set of tools highlighting locations around campus that incorporate sustainable initiatives.
These new tools, which can be found under the “Map Features” dialog, offer locations and information on a number of a sustainable campus features, such as flex car parking, sustainable […]
Filed under UF In Focus on January 15, 2008.
UF is home to new pancreas research depository
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Type 1 diabetes is a disease which affects at least 1 million Americans. One of the newest additions to the University of Florida’s College of Medicine is working to help them.
The Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors, or nPOD, is the College of Medicine’s new center for international study of the human pancreas […]
Filed under UF In Focus on December 4, 2007.
New home and theater provide hope for Tanzanian orphans
Watching Tanzanian orphans perform acrobatics at the TunaHAKI Centre in Moshi, University of Florida architecture associate professor Donna Cohen knew the design project before her was much more than a building, it was an opportunity to give the children a space to learn art skills and become part of their community.
“It was inspiring to watch […]
Filed under UF In Focus on November 20, 2007.