UF gets $8.7 million grant to improve nutritional quality, food safety in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso
The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) announces an $8.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation over five years to fund research aimed at tackling global hunger in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. “This grant perfectly aligns with our current projects to improve the quality and quantity of food […]
UF research opens new avenue for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
University of Florida neuroscientists have validated a potential pathway to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of Americans and is the most common cause of dementia. The investigators made the finding while studying the toxicity of products that result from abnormal protein processing in the brain. A wide […]
UF/IFAS-developed sorghum cultivars can produce thousands of gallons of ethanol
Sweet sorghum is not just for breakfast anymore. Although sorghum is a source for table syrup, scientists see a future in which we convert sorghum to biofuel, rather than relying on fossil fuel. That potential just grew as University of Florida researchers found three UF/IFAS-developed sorghum varieties could produce up to 1,000 gallons of ethanol […]
Becoming Visible – Verity Mathis
Verity Mathis wore holes in her jeans and a half-smile as she jumped out of the pickup truck and grabbed a shovel from the back. She’d need it to free a trapped pocket gopher. She and fellow University of Florida researcher Sarah Duncan were spending the morning uncovering the gopher traps they set the night […]
Becoming Visible – Adania Flemming
Adania Flemming pulled rubber waders on over her clothes, grabbed a net and stepped into the murky creek, stained with tree resin. She was looking for the tiny swamp darter — a quick, feisty fish that’s difficult to spot, with its blotches that blend with the tea-colored waters. While the life history of the swamp […]
Becoming Visible – Michelle Barboza
The heat was over 90 degrees at the Florida Museum’s Montbrook fossil site – a crater-like hole in the ground near Williston, Florida, that’s revealed thousands of rock-encased animal remains, like ancient elephant-like gomphotheres and tiny ancestors of horses that once roamed the state. Michelle Barboza, a University of Florida graduate student who studies paleontology […]
UF awarded $11.9 million for prostate cancer research comparing proton and X-ray therapies
A University of Florida research team has been approved for a five-year, $11.9 million award to directly compare the potential benefits and harms of proton therapy to standard radiation therapy when treating prostate cancer. Nancy Mendenhall, M.D., medical director of the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute, leads the team that received funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research […]
Black holes’ magnetism surprisingly wimpy
Black holes are famous for their muscle: an intense gravitational pull known to gobble up entire stars and launch streams of matter into space at almost the speed of light. It turns out the reality may not live up to the hype. In a new paper appearing in the journal Science, University of Florida scientists have discovered […]
Black holes' magnetism surprisingly wimpy
Black holes are famous for their muscle: an intense gravitational pull known to gobble up entire stars and launch streams of matter into space at almost the speed of light. It turns out the reality may not live up to the hype. In a new paper appearing in the journal Science, University of Florida scientists have discovered […]
University of Florida climbs to 14th among public universities with $791 million in research expenditures
A new report from the National Science Foundation shows the University of Florida’s record $791 million in research expenditures in 2016 pushed it from 16th to 14th among public universities in a national ranking of R&D spending. The statistics are compiled from NSF’s annual Higher Education Research and Development, or HERD, survey, which compiles research expenditure data from more than […]