Tag: College News
NEH Awards Professor Trysh Travis
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 calendar year 2017 for a new book project, Reading Matters: Books, Bookmen, and the Creation […]
Power Trio of Professors
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 initiative, the focus of this joint theory/experiment, physics/chemistry project is the search for and […]
Peeking into our galaxy’s stellar nursery
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 last 50 years look more like weather maps showing storm systems instead of glittering bursts […]
Libris – October 2015
Traveling in French Sylvie Blum-Reid Languages, Literatures, and Cultures This book covers different travel modes and tropes at play in French cinema since 1980 to the present day. It follows the archetypal figure of the traveler and the way these journeys are ‘performed.’ Films travel for us, spectators, and we in turn virtually take off […]
Topping Out
Hundreds turn out to leave their mark on new chemistry building Almost a year after the groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Florida’s new chemistry/chemical biology at the corner of University Avenue and Buckman Drive, hundreds gathered to leave their signature on a one-ton beam that will be placed on the tallest portion of the […]
UF and Gran Telescopio Canarias Unveil New Eye on the Infrared Sky
The world’s largest telescope – the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) 10.4-meter telescope on the island of La Palma, Spain – announced the unveiling of a new window into the mysteries of deep space, with the release of the Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE) for the use of astronomers worldwide. Read more.
Libris – July 2015
Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power Jeffrey D. Needell Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies. Available from University Press of Florida For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world’s largest economies for the last twenty years. […]
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. […]
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 […]
Libris – May 2015
Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous Brigitte Weltman-Aron Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Associate Professor in French. Available from Columbia University Press Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise […]
Libris – April 2015
Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (Uncivil Wars) edited by J. Matthew Gallman J. Matthew Gallman, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. Lens of War, grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and […]
Libris – March 2015
Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization edited by Luise White Luise White, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not […]
Libris – February 2015
The Male Clock: A Futuristic Novel about a Fertility Crisis, Gender Politics, and Identity edited by William Marsiglio William Marsiglio, Professor in Sociology and Criminology & Law. Available from Sense Publishers As speculative fiction informed by social science and biomedical perspectives, The Male Clock propels readers into a futuristic, yet believable world transformed by SGEV […]
When A Bright Light Fades
Astronomer Charles Telesco is primarily interested in the creation of planets and stars. So, when the University of Florida’s giant telescope was pointed at a star undergoing a magnificent and explosive death, Telesco, a UF professor, didn’t immediately appreciate what a rare and valuable find he had. He soon learned. The event was about to […]
Decoding the Tree of Life
UF geneticist contributes to groundbreaking study of bird evolution Nature abhors a vacuum, which may explain the findings of a new study showing that bird evolution exploded 65 million years ago when nearly everything else on earth — dinosaurs included — died out. The study is part of an ambitious project, published in the Dec. […]
The Human Touch
New research suggests animals prefer human connections What do animals really want? A new study from the University of Florida suggests it might be human contact, at least in the case of some Galapagos tortoises. Lindsay Mehrkam, a UF doctoral student in psychology, and psychology professor Nicole Dorey have published a paper in the journal […]
As Elephants Go, So Do the Trees
Research shows hunting can have catastrophic effects on tropical forests. Overhunting has been disastrous for elephants, but their forest habitats have also been caught in the crossfire. A first-of-its-kind study led by researchers at the University of Florida shows that the dramatic loss of elephants, which disperse seeds after eating vegetation, is leading to the […]
Libris – November 2014
Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century Sean Patrick Adams Sean Patrick Adams, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in […]
Ebola May Be Creating Its Own Immunity
The spread of Ebola in West Africa reveals two truths: The disease is swift, and it is devastating. Amid the chaos of deadly outbreak, researchers say another truth may exist: The disease might be quietly inoculating a significant portion of the population who are exposed to the virus but never succumb to it or show […]