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Your family can make your blood boil – literally! Grad Student Kia Fuller and UF Faculty publish article using a biocultural framework to investigate blood pressure variation in African Americans

African Americans have significantly higher rates of hypertension than other racial groups and suffer from more serious negative outcomes associated with the disease. We investigate the sociocultural and biological factors that influence hypertension in African Americans, a group that is underrepresented in research, in Tallahassee, FL. Novel integration of both genetic and social network data […]

Article Co-Authored by Dr. Richard Stepp Featured in News

An article Dr. Stepp co-authored with a team out of Duke Univ. (“Are the Ghosts of Nature’s Past Haunting Ecology Today?”) was published in Current Biology on Monday and has been getting a lot of media coverage. See links below to view some of the published features: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article210643034.html   https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/large-predators-human-habitat-conservation-animals-spd/