By Brianna Vo When I was young, I saw my dad suddenly keel over in pain in the middle of his work with a customer. He was driven to the hospital and diagnosed with dangerously high cholesterol levels at the root of his severe abdominal pain ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Health & Nutrition, Professional Development, Work & Life
Christine de Pizan (1364 – 1430) is known as “the first woman who was able to support herself and her family as a writer.” At age 15, she married Etienne de Castel who sadly died a decade later. After his death, she was left with three ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, Work & LifeMaria Goeppert Mayer (B. 1906 – D. 1972) was the second women in history to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics. Marie Curie was the first women to win this award. Maria won in collaboration with Hans D. Jensen in 1963 for their research ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, Work & LifeHedy Lamarr (B. 1913 – D. 2000) was a woman well known for breaking barriers in the film industry with progressive film roles such as staring in one of the first nude scenes; however, she made important strides for science which are often ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, Work & LifeDr. Mary Guinan (B. 1939) describes herself as one of many medical detectives who worked hard to combat the Smallpox, Ebola, and AIDS epidemics. She traveled around the world into hotspots of medical crises risking her own health to try and ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, Work & LifeWhile in Turkey, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (26 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) came across the process of variolation, as it was practiced amongst the people of Constantinople. She first mentioned variolation in the famous letter to her friend, ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, Work & LifeWhen Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) gave her Academic Oration in Which It Is Demonstrated That the Studies of the Liberal Arts by the Female Sex Are by No Means Inappropriate, she was only nine-years-old. Something uncommon for anyone at such ... READ MORE
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Costanza Manes | Research Fellow at the One Health Center It is highly probable that most human coronaviruses that have caused epidemics, and now even pandemics, have originally come from bats. It is safe to say that they should have stayed ... READ MORE
Category: Conservation, Health & Nutrition, Pests & Disease, Wildlife
Updated 03/15/20 As we continue to monitor COVID-19 in Florida, I wanted to take a moment to update our UF/IFAS Extension community about our current status, best practices and next steps. The personal health and safety of everyone in the ... READ MORE
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