University of Florida News

This is University Update Weekly, your source for University of Florida news and events for the week of September 3rd.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Starting to diet seems to double the odds a teenage girl will begin smoking, a University of Florida study has found.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will house a newly organized international research center for the study of the human pancreas that will bank organs from thousands of patients with or at risk for type 1 diabetes in an effort to learn more about the disease.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Growing plants for fuel might be an engine-revving idea for some South Florida farmers who feel their crops have stalled, a University of Florida researcher says.

The University of Florida’s new hurricane simulator will huff and puff and blow the house in, for research purposes only.

The University of Florida’s new hurricane simulator will huff and puff and blow the house in, for research purposes only.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The latest round of bad news in the housing market dealt a blow to consumer confidence in August, causing a three-point drop to 78, its lowest level in a year, a new University of Florida study finds.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Time was when a religion was something people were born into, grew old with in comfort and died with in glory.

This is University Update Weekly, your source for University of Florida news and events for the week of August 27th.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida received a record $583 million in research funding in 2007, thanks in part to a 92 percent increase in state funding.