GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Hear the word fungus, and mushrooms and mold might leap to mind. But the University of Florida is about to house the nation’s first research repository for one species that has nothing to do with pizza toppings or marbling blue cheese: Aspergillus, which increasingly poses a major health threat to cancer patients and transplant recipients.
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This is University Update Weekly, your source for University of Florida news and events for the week of July 30th.
WHAT: The Florida Cat Conference and Dog Owners and Breeders Symposium
Sponsored by the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, this annual event will feature speakers on a range of health issues facing cats and dogs. UF veterinarians and special guest speakers will address animal behavior, care for aging pets, animal first aid, toxic pet [...]
Possible ways the University of Florida and other state universities will cope with budget cutbacks was the subject of a July 27 story in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Blow fly maggots are one of the best tools forensic entomologists have for estimating when a person died—but a University of Florida researcher says current methods should be revised to account for a phenomenon that can skew results.
A study of the impact of height on income done by management Professor Timothy Judge was cited in a July 26 London Times. The story was related to a news release.
Criminology Professor Richard Hollinger was quoted in a July 25 MSNBC.com story about Wal-Mart’s effort to reduce shoplifting.
Toxicologist Bruce Goldberger was quoted in a July 25 Times-Picayune story about the use of human tissue to analyze the bodies of people who died at a hospital after Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans.