Head of the CLAS
Across
Borders
Milagros Pena wins a prestigious award for her research in Latina
activism.
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Herpetology
Harvey Lillywhite looks at the biology of reptiles
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Calendar
Wednesday | October 15
Proposal Deadline for Cultural Currency and Literary Exchange: Cultivating Texts as Commodity
Thursday | October 16
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Created in Part
by UF, World’s Largest Computing Grid Launches
The world’s largest computing grid, pioneered in part
by University of Florida researchers, launches to crunch the
mammoth amounts of data expected to be produced by the Large Hadron
Collider particle accelerator in Europe.
In The News: September
2008
The latest headlines garnered by CLAS faculty and students in the
national media.
Around the College: September
2008
Awards and accomplishments of faculty, staff and students around
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for September 2008.
Legislators’ Nod
to Citizen Initiatives may be Tied to Re-Election Hopes
Citizen-initiated measures, such as gay rights
and physician-assisted suicide, are not a uniquely Western U.S. phenomenon
as traditionally thought.
William
Woodruff, UF Professor, Author Dies at 92
William Woodruff, author,
historian and emeritus Graduate Research Professor at the University of
Florida, died Tuesday in Gainesville.
Wolves Show Scientists are
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
The common notion is that dogs evolved a special sensitivity to their
human masters during domestication.
In
Memoriam: Dr. Felix M. Berardo
Dr. Felix M. Berardo, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of
Sociology at the University of Florida succumbed to a long battle with a glioblastoma
brain tumor on September 18 at his home in Gainesville, Florida.
Announcements
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Nominate your favorite Liberal Arts and Sciences professors for a teacher
or advising award. Please return nomination forms to 2014 Turlington. Nominations
must be received by November 10, 2008.
2009 Teacher Nomination Form (DOC)
2009 Advisor Nomination Form (DOC) - Graham Center for Public Service Participating in Expanded Youth Effort Chronicling 2008 Presidential Race
- UF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute announces the first Pilot and Collaborative Projects competition. Information regarding this program may be found at www.gcrc.ufl.edu/news/august2008.pdf
- Paper and panel proposals for Cultural Currency and Literary Exchange: Cultivating Texts as Commodity 8th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference are due by October 15.
- Research Opportunity Incentive Seed Fund Proposals Due December 8
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