Kudos For New “Mailer Review”

Posted On Monday, January 7, 2013 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Mailer Review The latest issue features a previously unpublished short story by Norman Mailer and work of noted writers and scholars. TAMPA, Fla.  – When “Vanity Fair” columnist James Wolcott described the latest issue of “The Mailer Review” as, “No dry academic exercise in critical analysis and placement, The Mailer Journal is rich ...

Florida State to Host Vietnam Education Foundation Conference

Posted On Friday, January 4, 2013 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , ,   
Florida State University will host the 10th Annual Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellows and Scholars Conference from Jan. 3-5. With a theme of “Leading the Change,” the conference will give attendees the opportunity to participate in leadership training, share research, network with colleagues and prepare for their return to Vietnam. About ...

The ‘Art’ of Medicine: Building A Caring Relationship With Clients

Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , ,   
Building A Caring Relationship With Clients On the first day of school each year at the UCF College of Medicine, Dean Deborah German asks our incoming class of students what they think makes a “good doctor.” That has led me to reflect on what I believe it means, too. We recently completed a module for the first-year medical ...

Kiplinger’s Names UCF a Best Value Education

Posted On Monday, December 31, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , ,   
The University of Central Florida today was named by Kiplinger’s magazine as one of the nation’s 100 best values among public colleges and universities, the third consecutive year UCF has made the list. UCF placed 42nd in the annual compilation, which ranks institutions based on academic quality, admission and retention rates, ...

What They Are Saying… Department Releases High School Grades

Posted On Saturday, December 29, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Florida State Board of Education Chairman Gary Chartrand: "Florida's teachers and students continue to meet the challenge of higher academic expectations. When we expect more from our students they achieve more." Florida State Board of Education Vice Chair Roberto Martinez: "These results are the product of a great deal of hard ...

Discovery Of Africa Moth Species Important For Agriculture

Posted On Monday, December 24, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , ,   
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the rain forests of the Congo, where mammals and birds are hunted to near-extinction, an impenetrable sound of buzzing insects blankets the atmosphere. Because it is a fairly inaccessible region with political unrest, much of the Congo’s insect biodiversity remains largely undiscovered. In a new monographic book ...

Additional Graves Located At Former Reform School

Posted On Monday, December 24, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , ,   
TAMPA, Fla. – A team of University of South Florida anthropologists and archaeologists have found at least 19 more graves at the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla., than has been officially reported.   Once the largest reform school in the nation, the century-old institution has been the ...

UF/IFAS Announces $1.5 Million Tropicana Gift For Citrus Faculty Post Focused On Innovation

Posted On Thursday, December 20, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , ,   
tropicana-orange-juice-profile GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– Tropicana Products Inc., a division of PepsiCo Inc., has pledged $1.5 million to endow a professorship specializing in innovative citrus research to strengthen the Florida citrus industry, the nation’s largest, University of Florida and Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences officials and company representatives announced today. The endowment, ...

Plants In Space: Gravity Not Needed To Orient Root Growth, UF Researchers Find

Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Gravity not needed to orient root growth, UF researchers findGAINESVILLE, Fla. — Plant growth is not as dependent on gravity as previously thought, according to new research from the University of Florida. In a study published in the current issue of the journal BMC Plant Biology, researchers found for the first time that roots display normal movements used to get ...

UF Researcher Exploring Plant Preservation Method That Could Help Endangered Species

Posted On Thursday, December 6, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , ,   
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida scientist is researching a method to freeze and preserve orchid seeds, and besides aiding producers, it might also give endangered plants a better chance at survival. Wagner Vendrame, an associate professor of environmental horticulture with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is trying to improve a ...

Florida Commission on The Status of Women Recognizes FSU Alumna Flowers

Posted On Monday, December 3, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , ,   
When Doby Flowers was crowned homecoming queen at Florida State University in 1970, she did more than ace a college popularity contest — she redefined the meaning of beauty for her university, her community and her state. As the university’s first black homecoming queen, the young Flowers served as a shining example for ...

Uncommon Features of Einstein's Brain Might Explain Remarkable Cognitive Abilities

Posted On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , ,   
Portions of Albert Einstein’s brain have been found to be unlike those of most people and could be related to his extraordinary cognitive abilities, according to a new study led by Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk. Falk, along with colleagues Frederick E. Lepore of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School ...

Interior-Design Graduate Program Named Most Admired in the Nation

Posted On Sunday, November 25, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , ,   
The graduate program of the Department of Interior Design at Florida State University has been named the most admired program of its kind in the country in a national survey of 122 deans and department chairs. DesignIntelligence, a respected industry journal of the Design Futures Council, lauded Florida State in its annual “America’s ...

Black Friday Morphing Into Thursday

Posted On Friday, November 23, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , ,   
USF marketing experts see the unofficial shopping holiday intruding even more on Thanksgiving in coming years. TAMPA, Fla. – With a tradition as longstanding as Black Friday, retailers are always looking for new marketing gimmicks to energize sales, whether it’s big door-busters or earlier opening times. USF marketing experts say the bid ...

Strategies to Control Crazy Ants Taking Shape for UF/IFAS Researchers

Posted On Saturday, November 17, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , ,   
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Their name is comical, but when crazy ants infest a neighborhood it’s no laughing matter. The fast-moving, invasive insects are present in Florida and several other Gulf Coast states. They can establish colonies with multiple queens and millions of workers, blanketing lawns and sidewalks, killing native species, shorting ...

Rare Human Parasite Found in U.S. Horse for the First Time

Posted On Friday, November 16, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , ,   
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A rare, potentially fatal species of parasite never before found in North America has been identified in a Florida horse. University of Florida veterinarians identified the parasite, called Leishmania siamensis, in summer 2011. This particular species of parasite previously had been found only in Thailand and parts of Europe. ...

USF Graduate to Compete in Miss America Pageant

Posted On Thursday, November 15, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , ,   
Aniska Tonge, who graduated in the spring, holds the title of Miss Virgin Islands 2012. TAMPA, Fla. (Nov. 9, 2012) – Aniska Tonge won the title of Miss Virgin Islands 2012 this past August, only three months after her graduation from the University of South Florida. In January, Tonge will be competing ...

USF Ranks High for Minority Graduation Rates

Posted On Monday, November 5, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , ,   
Studies show USF continues to make strides in awarding degrees to students from underrepresented groups.par par par par TAMPA, Fla. 'e2'80rdblquote Recent surveys by The Education Trust and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education reaffirm the University of South Florida'e2'80'99s standing as one of the top universities in the country awarding baccalaureate degrees to ...
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