The latest headlines garnered by CLAS faculty and students in the national media through March 2009.
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March 2009
Geography
- Stephen
Golant: Washington Post
Stephen Golant, a gerontologist and professor of geography, was quoted in a Feb. 20 Washington Post story about how houses might be adapted to allow aging baby boomers to remain in their homes. - Grant
Thrall: Sarasota
Herald-Tribune
Geography professor Grant Thrall was quoted in a March 15 Sarasota Herald-Tribune story about efforts by the state of Arizona to lure Major League Baseball teams to move spring training facilities from Florida.
History
- David
Colburn: Tampa Tribune
An op-ed column by David Colburn, director of UF’s Reubin Askew Institute, about how Florida’s leaders are dealing with the state’s economic woes was published in the March 1 Tampa Tribune.
Oral History
- Paul Ortiz: History Detectives
Oral History Program director Paul Ortiz was interviewed for the PBS television show History Detectives. The show will look at the Liberia Letters - a set of handwritten letters written to Mary Ballard Vance, a freed slave who lived in antebellum South Carolina.
Physics
Race for Higgs Particle in the News
As a result of the delayed LHC startup and the great performance of the Tevatron and CDF and Dzero experiments, the press has been interested in writing about the race for the Higgs particle. Jacobo Konigsberg recently participated in a press conference at the AAAS meeting in Chicago, along with Pier Oddone, the Fermilab director; Lyndon Evans, project leader of the LHC accelerator; Jim Virdee, the spokesperson for the CMS experiment; Dimitri Denisov, the spokesperson of the Dzero experiment; and Marzio Nessi, the Atlas detector project manager. This generated significant press coverage; the following are links to the press articles in which Konigsberg is quoted:
- Jacobo Konigsberg: Associated Press
- Jacobo Konigsberg: Chicago Tribune
- Jacobo Konigsberg: New Scientist
- Jacobo Konigsberg: Symmetry Magazine
Sociology Science
- Milagros
Pena: Florida
Times-Union
Milagros Pena, a professor of sociology, was quoted in a Feb. 22 Florida Times-Union story about whether heritage months are still relevant.
Women's Studies and Gender Research
- UF
Women's Studies Have Come a Long Way
Graduates from the University of Florida’s Center for Women’s Studies talk about their careers and how participating in the program changed their lives.
