Dr. Adrienne Strong’s workshop on pain and palliative care with the African Center for Research on End-of-Life Care (ACREOL)
Dr. Adrienne Strong’s joint workshop with collaborators from Tanzania and the African Center for Research on End-of-Life Care (ACREOL), based in Kigali, Rwanda.
UF Research Foundation Names 2024 Professors
University of Florida Research Foundation has named 34 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2024.
Fort Mose: Black militia, forced migrations and resistance.
UF archaeologists study how “In eighteenth-century Spanish Florida, a militia composed of formerly enslaved Africans fought for their liberty”.
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Aaron Broadwell’s research featured in Smithsonian Magazine
Elling Eide Professor Aaron Broadwell and Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky share with readers of Smithsonian Magazine how Indigenous speakers of Timucua in Spanish colonial Florida were actively writing translations of their language in the Roman alphabet taught to them by Spanish missionaries. Read the full story here.
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BOOK LAUNCH: Crossing the Current: Aftermaths of War along the Huallaga River
In his latest book, Crossing the Current, Professor Richard Kernaghan asks what happens to the lay of landscapes in the Upper Huallaga Valley of Peru once a prolonged period of political and social turbulence has ostensibly passed.
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Dr. George Aaron Broadwell wins 2022 Victor Golla Prize
Congratulations to Dr. George Aaron Broadwell, the winner of the 2022 Victor Golla Prize from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. The Victor Golla Prize is presented in recognition of a significant history of both linguistic scholarship and service to the scholarly community, with service that expands the quality […]
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“Hearing a faint voice: Timucua words in a Catholic miracle story”
Dr. George Aaron Broadwell and his coauthor, Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside), have a new journal article “Hearing a faint voice: Timucua words in a Catholic miracle story”, which appears in the inaugural edition of The New American Antiquarian. The earliest texts from Florida come from a corpus of Timucua language materials published between 1612 and […]
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Fatty Red Flowers for Red-Tailed Monkeys
Dr. Kim Valenta recently published a paper on the unusual nutritional qualities of a pantropical flowering tree, Symphonia globulifera. Although red-tailed monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the mountains of East Africa seldom consume large quantities of flowers as part of their regular diets, each spring magnificent bright red flower displays from S. globulifera, a tree that […]
“Digging for The Truth”
UF’s Explore Magazine features Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield’s incredible work in Tulsa, OK – Read “Digging for The Truth: Finding graves helps Tulsa bury its ghosts” here!