by kaylasharp | Dec 2, 2015 | Newsmakers, P.K. Yonge
The news bears repeating. P.K. Yonge’s girls volleyball team did it again. For the second year in a row the Blue Wave girls’ volleyball team won the Florida high school state championship. The team capped off its sparkling season by sweeping Palmer...
by kaylasharp | Nov 25, 2015 | Headlines, Press Releases, Research News, Spotlights
Jan. 26 Update: NSF announces fifth grant, $1.2 million, for Dr. Pasha Antonenko to lead UF team on 3-D paleontology technology project. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Pasha Antonenko, an associate professor of educational technology, has set a new standard at the University of...
by kaylasharp | Nov 24, 2015 | Headlines, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases, Spotlights
Teachers bring back lessons from professional-development trips abroad Mayra Cordero joined a scientific mission to hunt for fossils in Panama. Macy Geiger and Angie Flavin traveled to Haiti to help Haitian teachers improve the way they teach their students....
by kaylasharp | Nov 23, 2015 | Headlines, Press Releases, Research News, Spotlights
Quotable “It is the best thing that ever happened to me as a teacher.” — Kathy Savage Oviedo High bioscience teacher MOST OF THE TIME they are the teachers. Not this time. Dozens of high school teachers from across Florida returned to the classroom as part of an...
by kaylasharp | Nov 23, 2015 | Faculty Laurels, Newsmakers, Press Releases, Research News
Walter Leite Brian Reichow Two College of Education scholars are among 10 University of Florida faculty members selected for a new program designed to enhance the university’s international research excellence. Associate professors Walter Leite and Brian Reichow were...