College of Pharmacy: Get your degree in St. Petersburg
Gators aren’t just made in Gainesville. UF’s College of Pharmacy has a campus in St. Petersburg for students earning doctorates or continuing their educations. In a time when job opportunities are...
View ArticleFlex House: Designing a Better Home
UF teamed with USF, FSU and UCF to compete in the 2011 Solar Decathlon. Team Florida, a collaboration of four major Florida research universities,competed this fall in the U.S. Department of Energy...
View ArticleConsumer’s Choice
For years, higher yields and faster growth — not taste, smell and appearance — have driven plant breeding. A group of UF researchers is looking to put consumers first again. By Ron Word and Styliana...
View ArticleTropical Research and Education Center: Could We Have No Bananas?
UF researcher Randy Ploetz has created a plan to protect the U.S. banana supply. By Robert H. Wells UF News The banana consumers know today could disappear from U.S. store shelves because of a tropical...
View ArticleEverglades Research and Education Center: A Unique Study of Owls
UF professor Richard Raid flies high in the small world of owl-pellet gathering. By Tom Nordlie (BS ’86, JD ’95) IFAS News Dissecting owl pellets and reconstructing animal skeletons inside can be a...
View ArticleHurricane House: Surviving the Storm
UF’s facility in Fort Lauderdale shows how to make a home more wind resistant. By Chuck Woods IFAS News Built to withstand winds of more than 140 mph, the “hurricane house” at the University of...
View ArticleRon Magill: Wildlife Envoy
At Miami Metrozoo, alumnus Ron Magill has found the job the rest of us only daydream about. Just talking to Ron Magill (AA ’80) is exciting. Speaking by phone from his office at the Miami Metrozoo, you...
View ArticleDr. Pedro José Greer: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
For 25 years Dr. Joe has led a one-man crusade to help Miami’s homeless and underprivileged. And he’s not done yet. By Cindy Spence (BSJ ’82) UF Today, Summer 2010 In June 1984, fresh from taking the...
View ArticleArva Moore Parks: Keeper of the Past
The Miami native and UF alumna is one of South Florida’s leading historians. Julia Tuttle may be the Mother of Miami, but it’s Arva Moore Parks* (BA ’60) who is caring for the community’s history. A...
View ArticlePythons in the Everglades
With native species hanging in the balance, UF takes an active role in controlling Florida’s growing population of Burmese pythons. By Sarah L. Stewart (BSJ ’05) Ankle deep in murky, brown water, six...
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