CLAS in the News - June 2007
Criminology, Law and Society
Criminology Professor Richard Hollinger was quoted in a June 13 Associated Press story about the National Retail Federation report on retail theft. The report was released jointly with the University of Florida, and the story ran on the Reuters wire as well as in numerous newspapers nationwide.
History
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, an emeritus professor and Civil War historian, was quoted in a June 10 Boston Globe story about the often provocative nature of academic research done by Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's new president.
Physics
Jacobo Konigsberg, a UF professor of physics, was quoted in a July 24 New York Times story about the race among physicists to understand a legendary particle that is known colloquially as the Higgs boson and sometimes called the “God particle.”
Political Science
Political science Professor Dan Smith was quoted in a June 13 St. Petersburg Times story about how a constitutional amendment to change Florida's property tax structure will require a 60 percent majority approval because of a law pushed by the Legislature and OK'd by voters last year.
from Dateline Florida: UF in the News
