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Bob Graham Center at UF to honor environmental activist as Citizen of the Year

Thursday, May 23, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Floridian who has worked tirelessly to preserve the state’s natural resources, including the Everglades, has been named the inaugural Bob Graham Center Citizen of the Year.

UF Health: New name signals new era in health care delivery

Monday, May 20, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center, is now University of Florida Health, university officials announced today.

UFPD joins national effort to ensure seat belt use

Monday, May 20, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Police Department has joined law officers nationwide this week in the “Click It or Ticket” campaign to get drivers and passengers to use seat belts.

Statistical portal now available through Smathers

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries now subscribe to Statista.com, the first statistics portal in the world to integrate data on more than 60,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform.

Researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study nutrition in low birth weight infants

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida nursing researcher has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how to best and most safely nourish very low birth weight infants, who weigh less than 3.3 pounds. The funding will allow researchers to study a standard clinical treatment used to assess these infants’ nutritional status to determine if it is beneficial or risky to the baby.

UF International Center recognizes oustanding area teachers

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida International Center has recognized four area teachers for international endeavors in their classrooms.

Bartoshuk to receive lifetime achievement award

Monday, May 13, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida professor Linda Bartoshuk wants you to taste a better tomato. She wants you to taste the best and most delicious tomato you have ever eaten. And she is working diligently with horticultural sciences professor Harry Klee to make that elusive tomato a reality. This is just the latest in Bartoshuk’s long career of research.

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