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Filed under Announcements, Appointments, Awards & Honors, Campus on Friday, June 22, 2007.

HHP awarded $3.2 million to study alcohol and fitness interventions for adolescents

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Addictive & Health Behaviors Research Institute, part of the University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance, has received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to continue research on alcohol and fitness interventions for adolescents.

Filed under Announcements, Awards & Honors, Campus on Tuesday, June 12, 2007.

State Department awards UF first Study of U.S. program grant in journalism education

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The State Department’s Study of the United States Branch recently awarded its first grant for international journalism and media faculty education to the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications.

Filed under Announcements, Awards & Honors, Campus on Monday, June 4, 2007.

UF radio program blossoms, wins awards

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida extension’s newest radio program, “Gardening in a Minute,” and its companion Web site have been educating and entertaining Floridians only since October 2006, but already have racked up five prestigious national communications awards.

Filed under Awards & Honors, Campus on Thursday, May 31, 2007.

UF’s Department of Pediatrics and Rinker School of Building Construction receive $2 million gift

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A $2 million gift made to the College of Medicine and the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida will help mend buildings, construct hearts and reduce pediatric diabetes.

Filed under Announcements, Awards & Honors, Campus on Thursday, May 31, 2007.

UF assistant professor awarded breast cancer research grant

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Vita Golubovskaya, a research assistant professor of oncology in the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of surgery, has received a $300,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation.

Filed under Awards & Honors, Campus on Thursday, May 24, 2007.

UF periodontist honored by colleagues

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. D. Lawrence Brock, an assistant clinical professor of periodontology at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, has received the American Academy of Periodontology’s 2007 Educator Award.

Filed under Announcements, Awards & Honors, Campus on Thursday, May 24, 2007.

UF faculty member to join journal’s editorial board

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shawn Kneipp, Ph.D., A.R.N.P., an associate professor at the University of Florida College of Nursing, has been invited to join the editorial board of the journal Nursing Research.

Filed under Awards & Honors, Campus on Wednesday, May 16, 2007.

College of Dentistry faculty elected to national organizations

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida College of Dentistry faculty members have been tapped to serve on national dental associations.

Filed under Announcements, Awards & Honors, Campus on Tuesday, May 15, 2007.

UF veterinary college names 2007 Distinguished Award winners

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A small-animal practice owner, a livestock reproduction specialist and a North Florida dairyman have been honored in the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine alumni council’s 2007 Distinguished Awards program.

Filed under Announcements, Awards & Honors, Campus on Monday, May 14, 2007.