Ytori Magazine
Newsworthy
UF physicists and astrophysicists are making waves.
Laurels
Awards and Achievements from the alumni, students and faculty of the college.
Donor Profile — Linde and Alan Katritzky
Kenan Professor of Chemistry Alan Katritzky began his tenure at UF in 1980 and continued working in the Department of Chemistry until his death in 2014.
Kiss-met — The Paynes
How the Paynes met.
Gator Good — Buffy Cushman-Patz
Alumna establishes a public charter school for sustainability in Hawaii.
The X-Labs
A new science paradigm for an interdisciplinary world.
From the Dean
Dean David E. Richardson introduces readers to the Spring 2017 issue of Ytori.
Crab Love in the Garbage Patch
Joseph Pfaller and Michael Gil have led several projects that culminated in an intriguing finding: crabs exhibit different mating behavior when living tucked below the carapace of a loggerhead turtle than in a nest of plastic.
Conservation Clues
Extinction detective Bob Holt tracks down the likely culprit behind ecological crises.
Biased? Who? Me?
Professor of Psychology and Executive Director of Project Implicit Kate Ratliff says many people do not recognize their own bias.
Global Issues — Bug Zappers
Liberal Arts and Sciences investigators at UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute are here to rid the world of dangerous microbes, wielding state-of-the-art technology with their scientific toolkits of electronic tracking, computer analysis, and petri dishes!
Extracurricular — Alinda Saintval
Alinda Saintval ’19 is a zoology and visual arts studies major, who has parlayed her passion and talent for art into an enterprise painting personalized backpacks.
Fred Thurston ’76, DDS’79
Meet Fred Thurston '76, DDS'79.
Joy Mendez PhD’99
Get to know Joy Mendez '99.
Gene Inman PhD’82
Meet Gene Inman PhD'82.
Marilyn Black M’71
If you’re sick of housework or your job makes you crazy, it might be something in the air. So learned Marilyn Black M'71, who studied why office workers were mysteriously becoming sick in the 1980s.
Thomas Barton PhD’67
Thomas Barton PhD'67Â did not intend to study chemistry.
Robert Kincart ’72
For Robert Kincart '72 a career in chemistry was almost inevitable.
Robert Grubbs ’63 M’65
A two-time Gator, Robert Grubbs ’63, M’65, switched from agricultural sciences to organic chemistry as an undergraduate and hasn’t looked back.
Dr. Kathy Fields ’79
Dr. Kathy Fields created Proactiv, the leading OTC acne medication.