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Past Issues

Spring 2008

Mission to Mars
Uf Plant Researchers Are Developing A Way To Grow Plants In Space
Out of Africa
How did I get into this situation I thought as I a took a blood sample from a bright-eyed young man holding an automatic rifle.
Mutual Respect
Zoologist Todd Palmer's cha nce observation reveals new insights into the unlikely bond between Africa's smallest insects and its largest mammals
Fish Tale
Research at UF's Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory is vital to Florida's $50 million ornamental fish industry
Youngest Victims
Maureen Goodenow Leads UF's Efforts to Understand AIDS in Children
Extracts
Research Briefs

Fall 2007

Time Capsule
Paleontologist Bruce MacFadden uses chemical clues preserved in fossils to tease out facts about 4-million-year-old giant sharks.
White Box, Black Box
UF bee researchers try to sort out what happens when bees already threatened by colony collapse disorder meet a growing population of Africanized cousins.
Forces of Nature
UF professors lead two of the most ambitious, costly and potentially groundbreaking research initiatives in modern physics.
Our Heaviest Generation?
Expanding waistlines mean kids today may be the first generation in history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, but UF experts are trying to change that.
Eyewitness News
UF communication researchers help newspapers track where their readers look, in print and online.
Extracts
Research Briefs