- Smart Drugs
June 29, 2016
UF Chemistry Professor Receives Award for Futuristic Polymer Many people have experienced unpleasant side effects from medications – or just don’t like needles. One step to improving drug delivery for patients is to build “smart” proteins that can be released into ... - Under the Skin
June 27, 2016
UF English Professor Receives Guggenheim Fellowship “She had to save face.” “He got under my skin.” These expressions may seem common now, but before the 19th century, people had a very different view of how humans lived in their bodies. UF ... - The Iron Man of UF
June 21, 2016
UF Professor of Chemistry Honored for Life’s Work If you thought electronics couldn’t get any smaller or more powerful, you might be surprised to learn that physics research at UF is contributing to yet more advancements in nanotechnology. UF chemistry professor ... - Libris | June 2016
June 1, 2016
Encyclopedia of the Yoruba Edited by Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi The Yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, ... - Libris | May 2016
May 1, 2016
Defining Duty in the Civil War Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front J. Matthew Gallman 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 ... - Libris | February 2016
February 1, 2016
Chica Lit Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century Tace Hedrick This study illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and especially commodification shape the genre of “chica lit,” that is, chick lit written by Latina authors with Latina characters. ... - NEH Awards Professor Trysh Travis
December 15, 2015
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced its annual research fellowships on Dec. 14, 2015, and Professor Trysh Travis of the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research was on the list. She has received an NEH research fellowship for ... - Libris – December 2015
December 1, 2015
Early Medieval Chinese Texts Cynthia L Chennault Languages, Literatures, and Cultures A guide to primary sources that date from China’s early medieval period (late third through sixth centuries) and to later anthologies or reference works concerning them. Ninety-three essays, arranged alphabetically by title, ... - Power Trio of Professors
November 11, 2015
NSF DMREF awards 1.2 million to three UF Physics and Chemistry professors Congratulations to Hai-Ping Cheng (Physics), George Christou (Chemistry) and Xiao-Guang Zhang (Physics), who have received a $1.2 million award from the NSF DMREF program. Inspired by the materials genome ... - Peeking into our galaxy’s stellar nursery
October 5, 2015
Astronomers have long turned their telescopes, be they on satellites in space or observatories on Earth, to the wide swaths of interstellar medium to get a look at the formation and birth of stars. However, the images produced over the ...
