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Carol Murphy
France-Florida Research Institute director is inducted in
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Norman Holland looks at the ways our brains convert literature
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Calendar
Wednesday | November 18
The Avenue Coffee House presents Phillip Wegner
Thursday | November 19
Slavery: A Global Investigation film screening
Friday | November 20
End of the Astronomical Dark Ages
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UF Students Commemorate Wall's Fall
On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall ceased to be the focal point of the political
and ideological division of the world.
[via Gainesville Sun]
UF Study Recasts Political ‘God Gap’ Theory with Details of a Religious Left
Christians who value communal forms of worship over doctrine have emerged as a politically liberal alternative to the religious right, a new University of Florida study finds.
Department of Energy Awards $1.275 Million Grant to University of Florida Physicists
University of Florida researchers in Physics and the Quantum Theory Project have received a new $1.275 million research grant from the Department of Energy to predict the properties of “warm dense matter” by theory, modeling, and computer simulation.
Plant Fossils give First Real Picture of Earliest Neotropical Rainforests
A team of researchers including a University of Florida paleontologist has used a rich cache of plant fossils discovered in Colombia to provide the first reliable evidence of how Neotropical rainforests looked 58 million years ago.
Announcements
- CLAS turns to Student Ambassadors to Shorten Advising Lines [Via Alligator]
- Gator Champions: The 2009 UF Community Campaign
The Gator Nation has a long history of caring and compassion. Giving back to our community is as much a UF tradition as graduating future leaders and winning national championships - The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere now lists deadlines and ainformation on individual and collaborative grants in the Humanities
- Introducing the UF Online Family Chat Program
- As talented leaders in academe, business and industry, your voice can make a tremendous impact - join Gators for Higher Education.
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences constitutes the intellectual core of the university. Its principal mission is to lead the academic quest to understand our place in the universe, and to help shape our society and environment.
