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Optimally Positioned

Duane Mitchell’s team at the University of Florida is a world leader in understanding how the body’s own immune system can be marshaled to fight cancers, especially brain cancers, in children and adults. It’s a big job, managing grants, directing clinical trials, writing journal articles, courting donors and countless other things.
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Return On Investment

At least a month before Florida recorded its first case of COVID-19, the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute had...

Learning Online

Holly Lane never anticipated long-term disruptions in education when the pandemic started forcing schools to close last spring.  “When schools...
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Tourism Economy

Florida’s economy — so reliant on tourism — has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Tens of thousands of workers at theme parks,...
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Sustaining Science

Images of the pandemic pause became familiar so quickly: Zoom cameos by cats tiptoeing across keyboards, parents stabbing mute buttons...
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A Question of Physics

As scientific voids go, it would be hard just now to find a more pressing question: How do the aerosols...

Shifting Ground

A University of Florida geophysicist discusses the strange changes in shifting ground during a long-term study of the 1960 Chile earthquake.
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Short Supply

The supply chains for common household items — like cleaning supplies or hardware — have had difficulties before the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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Inhale, Exhale

Now that a respiratory virus has made us fearful of passing each other in grocery store aisles and caused the masked among us to gaze reproachfully at the unmasked, suddenly, breathing seems complicated.
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From Academic to Real Life

UF Geography lecturer Gabriela Hamerlinck debuted a new class for Fall 2019: Pandemics. As the semester began, she was lecturing about history – the plagues of prehistory and the Black Death. By the end of the semester, current events were about to catch up with her lesson plan.
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Get Ready

When you stocked up supplies for quarantine, you likely checked several items off your hurricane preparation kit list as well. That head start will come in handy as hurricane season elbows its way into the pandemic in progress.