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Dr. Bernie Machen Dr. Win Phillips Board of Trustees: Explore: Research at the University of Florida is published by the Office of Research & Graduate Programs at the University of Florida. For more information about the research program, contact Vice President for Research Win Phillips, D.Sc., 223 Grinter Hall, Box 115500, Gainesville, FL 32611-5500 Phone: (352) 392-1582. For details about research highlighted in this issue, contact the editor or the researchers directly.
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ExtractsResearch Briefs Soil Moisture Monitors Help Save Water, Money"Rinse" For Washing Machines Dries ClothesHormone Could Cut Orthodontic TreatmentComputer Chip May Aid Bioterror FightManatee Eyes Could Be Window To Their HealthHog Wild In Florida! Feral Pigs A ProblemIt's A Bird! It's a Plane!Polar Bears Illustrate How Toxins Impact Arctic
Quenching A ThirstUF anthropologists have spent more than 20 years excavating a Peruvian mountain in search of answers to how the Inca's ancestors lived, and celebrated, fourteen centuries ago. SPICE-ing Up ScienceUF's Science Partners in Inquiry-based Collaborative Education, or SPICE, program pairs science graduate students with middle schoolers, and both come away winners. Stitch in TimeSimulators being developed at UF let medical students make meaningful mistakes without permanent consequences. Football FanUF's air-cooled shoulder pads help protect football players of all skill levels — high school to the pros — from the dangers of heat illness. Polar AttractionUF researchers in areas as diverse as medicine and physics are helping to fulfill the promise of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 15 years after its inception.
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