Our own Mike Heckenberger was featured in a story in the Alligator this morning, highlighting his research and efforts to mitigate the effects of rainforest fires on indigenous peoples. Find the article here. Photo courtesy to the Alligator.
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Dr. Muligan’s lab featured in UF News press release for their PLOS ONE paper about Syrian refugee study. https://news.ufl.edu/2019/07/how-genes-resilience-affect-syrian-refugee-stress/
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Congratulations to UF Anthropology graduate students Cady Gonzalez, Megan Cogburn, Christine LeJeune, and Mohammed Mustapha! All received the 2019 UF International Center Office for Global Research Engagement Research Award for Graduate Students.
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See details here: Call for Entries for Undergrad Video Contest Make a video explaining either why anthropology is an important major or what you love about anthropology at the University of Florida, and you could win $50 and have your video shown on the department’s social media accounts. Videos should be less than two minutes […]
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 […]
Amaya-Burns Award Macarena Moraga Doughty Research Award Amanda Brock Aja Cacan Oswaldo Medina-Ramirez Riley Ravary Nolan Ruark Sarah Staub Fairbanks Award Jorge Garcia Nathan Lawres Ginessa Mahar Goggin Award Daniel Barroca Randee Fladeboe Taylor Polvadore Maples Award Janet Finlayson Waggoner Grants-in-Aid Aaron Ellrich Jamie Fuller Simon Goldstone Brittany Mistretta Mohammed […]
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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/
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