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  • Lessons Learned from Lives Lost

    November 22, 2016

    Lessons Learned from Lives Lost
    UF researchers uncover surprising patterns with the spread of the great flu of 1918 In 1918, an unusually deadly flu swept the world, claiming 50 to 100 million lives in a pandemic often called the Spanish flu. Kyra Grantz, a research ...
  • Election Experts

    November 3, 2016

    Election Experts
    UF political science professors are a major resource for media. UF political science professors Daniel A. Smith and Michael McDonald have been featured as voting experts in nearly 60 news outlets — international, national, and regional — during the 2016 presidential ...
  • Feet to the Fire

    October 24, 2016

    Feet to the Fire
    Environment impact assessments are good for corporations and the planet. For 16 years, the Emerging Pathogens Institute’s Burton Singer has tracked a little-known undercurrent of environmental regulation. Although many scientists and activists are rightfully concerned about the effects of corporate development ...
  • UF Historian Receives Prestigious African History Award

    October 22, 2016

    UF Historian Receives Prestigious African History Award
    UF’s Nancy Rose Hunt Receives Major Book Award for Congo History Nancy Rose Hunt, UF professor of history and African studies, has received the Martin A. Klein Award honoring the best histories of Africa. The American Historical Association will present the ...
  • Geography Department Receives NSF Grant

    September 14, 2016

    Geography Department Receives NSF Grant
    Robert Walker of the Center for Latin American Studies and international team receive award to study effects of neoliberal policy on Mexican farming practices and their impact on deforestation. UF’s Department of Geography and Center for Latin American Studies have received ...
  • UF Researchers Tackle Dengue

    September 6, 2016

    UF Researchers Tackle Dengue
    Dengue vaccine could cause more severe infections in some settings. Dengue (pron. DEN-gay) is one of the most common viral infections around the world, with widespread occurrence in Africa and Southeast Asia, and can lead to the life-threatening hemorrhagic fever. Although ...
  • The Cinematic Society

    August 22, 2016

    The Cinematic Society
    UF’s Barbara Mennel Awarded Prestigious German Fellowship to Study Women and Work in Film Movies often are more telling of current social and economic issues than the news or research articles—gender issues especially so. The feminization of labor in the 21st ...
  • Two CLAS Scholars to Study at Oxford

    August 20, 2016

    Two CLAS Scholars to Study at Oxford
    Two UF students have received the Frost Scholarship, which funds an intensive master’s-level course for graduating seniors in the State University System of Florida to study at the University of Oxford. The scholarship covers 100 percent of tuition and academic ...
  • UF’s Iron Man, Part Two

    July 20, 2016

    UF's Iron Man, Part Two
    The American Chemical Society has just announced their 2016 Fellows, and UF Drago Chair of Chemistry George Christou is on the esteemed list. The ACS has named 57 chemists who have made significant contributions in their field in the July ...
  • Setting the Gold Standard

    July 6, 2016

    Setting the Gold Standard
    UF chemistry professor is first to use light to make gold crystal nanoparticles A team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how gold can be used in crystals grown by light to create nanoparticles, a discovery that has major ...