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Hearing Loss Prevention Drugs Closer To Reality Thanks to New Testing Method
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new way to test anti-hearing-loss drugs in people could help land those medicines on pharmacy shelves sooner. University of Florida researchers have figured out the longstanding...
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FSU Leading Decelopment of Advanced Prosthetics For Veterans
Florida State University’s High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) is leading a major partnership to develop the next generation of prosthetic limbs for military-veteran amputee patients, thanks...
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Record Diversity Of Ancient Crustaceans May Provide Clues For Fate Of Today’s...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida scientist has discovered a record biodiversity hotspot in Spain for 100-million-year-old crustaceans with possible implications for present-day species...
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Rice Grown Without Paddies Can Feed Drought-Stricken Communities, UF/IFAS...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumed by 3 billion people, rice is arguably the world’s most important food staple, and one reason for its popularity is that rice can be grown under flooded conditions that...
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Florida’s Consumer Confidence Drops One Point In January
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s consumer confidence dipped to 75, down one point from a revised reading of 76 in December, according to a monthly University of Florida survey. Consumer confidence has...
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UF/IFAS Virus Study May Signal Trouble For Biological Populations Facing...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Aside from rising sea levels, many climate change models predict that in the future, the planet’s temperature and weather will become increasingly erratic with wild, unpredictable...
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NSF Delivers $16 Million Grant To National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Officials from the Washington, D.C.-based National Science Foundation visited the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory on the campus of Florida State University Feb. 4 to formally present a...
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The Chieftains Return To The Phillips Center Sunday
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Paddy Maloney, The Chieftains and special guests will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Phillips Center for Performing Arts. Fresh off their 50th anniversary world tour, the...
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University of Florida Reports 2012 U.S. Shark Attacks Highest Since 2000
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shark attacks in the U.S. reached a decade high in 2012, while worldwide fatalities remained average, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File...
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UF/IFAS Report Finds Floridians Value Water Resources, Want to Conserve
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Floridians are more concerned with water quality than quantity, the results of a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences water survey suggest. The...
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Florida State Featured In Annual Advanced Placement Report
Florida State University is featured in the 9thAnnual AP Report to the Nation, which was released today by the College Board. The report contains the Class of 2012 Advanced Placement results and...
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Huge, Aggressive Mosquito May be Abundant in Florida this Summer, UF/IFAS...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If mosquitoes were motorcycles, the species known as Psorophora ciliata would be a Harley-Davidson — big, bold, American-made and likely to be abundant in Florida this summer. Just...
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UF Scientists Discover New Crocodilian, Hippo-like Species from Panama
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida paleontologists have discovered remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a mammal previously unknown to science during recent Panama Canal...
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Three Math Professors Elevated to Fellow of National Society
Three Florida State emeritus professors of mathematics — John L. Bryant, Robert Gilmer and De Witt Sumners — have been elected to the inaugural class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society....
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Local Food Makes Up 20 Percent of Florida’s Eat-at-Home Market
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Floridians are buying more food grown locally or regionally and retail sales are higher here than in other states, according to a University of Florida study. It showed local food...
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UF Researchers Improve Process to Create Renewable Chemicals From Plants
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Crops aren’t just for food, fiber and fuel. Researchers at the University of Florida are making new industrial applications possible for them as well. They’ve developed a method to...
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UF Researchers Show Brain’s Battle For Attention
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — We’ve all been there: You’re at work deeply immersed in a project when suddenly you start thinking about your weekend plans. It happens because behind the scenes, parts of your...
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Student Beat The Heat At Annual Ice Cream Social
Landis Green at Florida State University is a wondrous place where Seminoles can gather on warm, sunny days to frolic, toss Frisbees and even study. Hundreds of students strolling the green Tuesday...
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Better Data Needed in Determining Sea Turtle Population Trends
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Sea turtle populations may be increasing — or decreasing — but by using the most common method of simply counting nests or nesting females there is no way to know for sure, a...
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Useful Online Resources for Students looking for Education Worldwide
Quality Education is every ones desire and a lot of students are not able to identify the options available to them. There are various resources but not every student is able to reach to those...
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Being Social Creates Awareness Online Through www.beingsocial.info for...
Being Social is a Social Media Activists consortium which aims at promoting responsible use of Social Media in our day to day life. Its an initiative for fulfilling the desire of Discovery Education...
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Florida Expert: Keep Pets, Livestock Away From False Parasol Mushrooms
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dogs are notorious for eating just about anything, and the nastier, the better — which is why a University of Florida expert is advising canine owners to keep an eye out for...
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New Book Tackles Myths, Misperceptions About Marijuana
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More than half of Americans now think marijuana should be legalized, according to survey results the Pew Research Center released in April. But could an inaccurate understanding...
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Financial Aid & Scholarship Resources
Here you’ll realize and guide to the numerous scholarship choices offered to national and international students. Scholarships are offered to in-state, out-of-state and international students for PhD,...
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Aspirin Not Always Best Treatment For Many Individuals
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An aspirin a day may not always keep heart disease away, say two University of Florida cardiologists. But a new algorithm they have developed outlines factors physicians should...
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Anti-cancer drug viewed as possible Alzheimer’s treatment doesn’t work in UF...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An anti-cancer drug about to be tested in a clinical trial by a biomedical company in Ohio as a possible treatment for Alzheimer’s disease has failed to work with the same type of...
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UF/IFAS Storm-Preparation Expert Tailors Planning Guide for Floridians
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When it comes to natural disasters, Florida — with hurricanes, tropical storms, tornadoes, wildfires and flooding — certainly has more than its share. And a University of Florida...
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Activation of Cell Death Gene Triggered Loss of Phallus in Bird Evolution
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Researchers at the University of Florida Genetics Institute have discovered how, at the genetic level, different bird species either develop or do not develop phalluses, a finding...
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UF Study Finds Brain-Imaging Technique Can Help Diagnose Movement Disorders
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new University of Florida study suggests a promising brain-imaging technique has the potential to improve diagnoses for the millions of people with movement disorders such as...
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Down the Wrong Path: Book Details Psychiatry’s Lack of Objective Science
Psychiatry — which uses well-intentioned coercion, unscientific diagnoses and psychoactive drugs that do as much harm as good — is a science that is off course, according to a new book co-written by...
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UF Lands $8 Million Federal Award for Supercomputing Research
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida on Thursday received an $8 million federal award and was named one of six universities nationwide tapped to conduct high-performance computing simulations...
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College Host Girls Technology Camp And Workshops
Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information (CCI) hosted its first-ever Girls Technology Camp June 17-21 for local middle school girls as part of a community outreach effort to...
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New Dean To Take Reins of College of Nursing
Judith McFetridge-Durdle, dean and professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador School of Nursing in Canada, has been named dean of the Florida State University College of...
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Florida State Names New Vice Predisent for Finance and Administration
Florida State University announced July 19 the appointment of Kyle C. Clark, vice president for Administration and Finance and chief financial officer at Texas Tech University, as the new vice...
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USF Professor Driving Force in Caribbean STEM Education Initiative
TAMPA, Fla. – USF Associate Professor Maya Trotz studies the intersection of engineering and technology with the development of sustainable communities. For the last year the crossroads of her work...
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Novelist, Essayist and Poet will be Featured Speaker at Summer
You might say that Florida State University will have three speakers in one during its summer 2013 commencement ceremony. Novelist, essayist and poet Julianna Baggott, who writes under her real name as...
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Retired Statistics Professor Honored by American Statistical Association
Florida State University statistics Professor Emeritus Jayaram Sethuraman received the American Statistical Association’s Noether Senior Scholar Award Aug. 6 at the 2013 Joint Statistical Meeting, the...
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Researcher awarded $1.8 million to study gender differences in antidepressant...
In low doses, the general anesthetic drug ketamine works as an antidepressant, and for females the boost in mood is easier to achieve. A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher is...
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Scoring System Could Help Reduce Adverse Drug Events in Hospital Patients
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers are working closely with colleagues at UF Health to identify hospital patients at greatest risk for preventable adverse drug...
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Majority of Teens Think Prescription Stimulant use is a Problem Among Peers
GAINESVILLE, Fla. —Two-thirds of young people surveyed said the use of prescription stimulants is a moderate-to-large problem among youth, according to a new University of Florida study. Nearly 15...
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Survey Finds Concern About Impact of Interest Rates on Florida Real Estate...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rising interest rates could dampen the recovery of Florida’s real estate market, a new University of Florida survey suggests. A look at the second quarter of this year found the...
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Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the...
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UF Receives Grant to Join National Metabolomics Consortium
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– To help chart the course of biomedical discovery in the newest of the “-omics” frontiers, the University of Florida today launched the Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics...
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New Study Predicts Behavior of Juvenile Offenders
Extensive data collected by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) can help predict which youths are most likely to commit additional crimes following release from a residential placement....
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Researchers Find Potential Link Between Gum Disease and Alzheimer’s
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Oral bacteria from poor dental hygiene have been linked to brain tissue degeneration, according to new evidence from an international team of researchers, including one at the...
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First preeminence funding to advance new research frontiers
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With a computerized world generating colossal amounts of information, many experts believe the emerging science of big data will lead to bold new insights in fields from biology to...
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UF Faculty Finds Some Mind-Body Therapies May Reduce Effects of Functional...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although some health care providers may overlook alternative therapies when treating functional bowel disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, University of Florida faculty...
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UF Faculty Finds Some Mind-Body Therapies may reduce effects of functional...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although some health care providers may overlook alternative therapies when treating functional bowel disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, University of Florida faculty...
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Genetic rarity rules in wild guppy population, study finds
When it comes to choosing a mate, female guppies don’t care about who is fairest. All that matters is who is rarest. Florida State University Professor Kimberly A. Hughes in the Department of...
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Women’s pelvic pain often goes underreported, untreated
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although many women experience pelvic pain in their late teens and early 20s, a new University of Florida Health study indicates that only a small fraction of these women report...
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