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Month: June 2015

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Is the Planet Headed for an Extinction Crisis?

In the movie Avatar, so many magnificent animals have gone extinct that scientists can only study them virtually. This environmentally ravaged Earth is set in the near future, in the year 2154, but according to University of Florida biologist Todd Palmer and his colleagues, the Earth in 2015 is already undergoing an accelerated mass extinction. […]

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Professor of Math Named SIAM Fellow

Congratulations to Professor William Hager for being named a 2015 Fellow in the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is being honored for contributions to optimal control, optimization theory, and numerical optimization algorithms. Hager is a co-director of the Center for Applied Optimization here at UF. His research work focuses on numerical analysis, optimization, […]

Libris – June 2015

Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front (Civil War America) J. Matthew Gallman J. Matthew Gallman, Professor of History. Available from Amazon. The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print […]