WHAT: Groundbreaking for the Pathogens Research Facility, a $56 million, 80,000-square-foot building that will house the Emerging Pathogens Institute. EPI is an interdisciplinary effort to respond to the threat of emerging and rapidly growing diseases for plants, animals and humans. This threat is especially acute in Florida.
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This is Update Weekly, your online audio source of University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday, February 25th.
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in a Feb. 25 USA Today story about Visa’s plan to sell more than half of itself in an initial public offering.
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in a Feb. 21 Reuters story about Nasdaq’s decision to require standards for listing ?blank-check? companies.
Paul Robell, vice president for development and alumni affairs, was quoted in a Feb. 20 Associated Press story about the increase in donations to U.S. universities. The quote was the result of a News Bureau referral. The story ran in numerous newspapers nationwide.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The following experts at the University of Florida are available today to speak to the news media about the impact of Fidel Castro’s resignation as president of Cuba:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — First came direct marketing, then focus groups. Now, advertisers, with the help of neuroscientists, are closing in on the holy grail: mind reading.
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This is Update Weekly, your online audio source of University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday, February 18th.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The airbrush, that tool behind tattoos and T-shirts, may have an unexpected future — in technology.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait.