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The Changing Treescape
For the first time, researchers have studied the effects of water stress on forests over a 20-year period. A team of biologists from the University of Florida has conducted systemic forest inventories of trees in the eastern United States from the 1980s to the 2000s. They looked specifically at forest biomass, tree species composition, and […]
Heart of the Congo
UF professor receives Guggenheim Fellowship for work in Africa. Professor of History Nancy Rose Hunt crosses disciplinary boundaries in her work, which includes medical and cultural histories of the African continent. A visual anthropologist, Hunt fuses her creative sense with her professional background as an archivist. “It is always vital to speak to Africans in […]
Tracking Unseen Dengue
Researcher: Derek Cummings, 410-916-1371 PIO: Rachel Wayne, 352-872-2620 For many viruses, contracting the pathogen can have a silver lining: the subsequent antibodies confer immunity against future infection. Not so for dengue, a remarkably common and occasionally fatal mosquito-borne disease that affects between 50 and 390 million people per year. Because it is often asymptomatic, […]
Civic Champion
On a crisp November day in 2003, Bob Graham ’59 stood on what remained of Lincoln High School’s track in Tallahassee, Fla., telling supporters and TV cameras that after almost 40 years in elected office — first as a state legislator, then as a two-term Florida governor, and finally as a three-term U.S. senator — […]
Goldwater Scholars
University of Florida student Aaron Sandoval, a sophomore, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Andrew Sack, a junior, was recognized with an Honorable Mention. Both are members of the UF Honors Program. Sandoval is a biology major and plans to earn an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Stem Cell and […]
ADMX announces breakthrough in axion dark matter detection technology
Forty years ago, scientists theorized a new kind of low-mass particle that could solve one of the enduring mysteries of nature: what dark matter is made of. Now the search for that particle has begun in earnest.
Student Profile — Nicole Wang
Global Citizen Nicole Wang ’21 just completed her first semester at UF and is committed to the pre-med track, even though she knows it’s not going to be easy. “During our preview session, we were asked how many people wanted to be doctors, and half of the room raised their hand. It was very intimidating,” […]
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Libris | November 2017
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea Jack E. Davis Jack E. Davis, professor of history and sustainability studies, has won the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction for his environmental history book, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. The $50,000 prize, given by literary publication Kirkus Reviews, honors exceptional books that meet Kirkus […]
Libris | August 2017
Perpetua’s Journey Jennifer Rea Jennifer Rea, associate professor of classics, is the second Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty member to collaborate with illustrator Liz Clarke for a graphic history book. Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic history […]
Alumni Profile — Mary Hough Fisher
Going for the Gold Anniversary This year, Mary Hough Fisher ’67 celebrates her 50th UF graduation anniversary. In honor of this golden date, her family is creating a $50,000 endowment, the James F. Hough Family Scholarship, primarily named after her father but also for her and her three brothers, Jim, John, and Tom Hough ’75. […]
Student Profile — Phillip Dmitriev
Oxford Bound To study something as complex as the human brain, one certainly needs a well-rounded education, and Phillip Dmitriev ’17, has immersed himself in an interdisciplinary program at UF to do just that. A budding physician-scientist majoring in microbiology and neurobiological sciences in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dmitriev’s research interests revolve around cognitive disorders, […]
List of Supported Devices and Software
Software Encryption Level Supported Protocol Supported Ciphers Android 2.3.7 No SNI 2 Not Supported Android 4.0.4 Not Supported Android 4.1.1 Not Supported Android 4.2.2 Not Supported Android 4.3 Not Supported Android 4.4.2 RSA 2048 (SHA256) TLS 1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 ECDH secp521r1 FS Android 5.0.0 RSA 2048 (SHA256) TLS 1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA ECDH secp521r1 FS Android 6.0 RSA […]
Libris | June 2017
Tacitus Victoria Emma Pagan Victoria Pagán’s latest book, titled Tacitus, describes the works of the historian of the same name, which means “silenced.” The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56–117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals […]
Dean Dave Richardson
Your Journey Begins Here When Dave Richardson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, addressed the Class of 2019 at Convocation last August, he shared stories about jobs he had in high school and college — flipping burgers, bagging groceries, digging ditches, baling hay, and feeding pigs. From these experiences, he said, he […]
The Future of Chemistry at UF
New building set to open this fall semester is a game changer. The University of Florida held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Chemistry/Chemical Biology Building at the corner of University Avenue and Buckman Drive on Oct. 10, 2014. Less than a year later, on Sept. 11, 2015, Skanska, the construction company building the facility, […]
Student Profile — Van Truong
Intrepid When she was three, Van Truong ’17 often slipped out of her parents’ house in their village of Hue, Vietnam, ambling into the homes of family and friends. Truong has been stepping out of her comfort zone for quite a while. In 2014, after her freshman year at UF, Truong set off for a […]