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Overview: The Bruna Lab at the University of Florida is recruiting a Master’s student with an interest in scientometrics, metascience, or social network analysis to become part of an emerging research group in Latin American Science and Science Policy based in the Center for Latin American Studies.

NB: position filled, but leaving up for the lab archive. We are seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. student to start at the University of Florida in Fall 2017. This student will work as part of a

in 2015 the American Society of Naturalists, Society of Systematic Biologists, and Society for the Study of Evolution had their joint meeting in Brazil - the first time this meeting was held in the tropics.

Dr. Bette Loiselle and I teach a class called “Fundraising for Tropical Conservation & Development Professionals”, and one of our assignments is for students to explore the costs and benefits of crowdfunding by running a project of their own.

The University of Florida has just pushed a press release about a paper by our Ph.D. student Ernane Vieira Neto [website]. Congratulations Ernane!   UF student’s research shines a light on Brazilian ecosystems [caption id=“attachment_9368” align=“alignright” width=“500”] Road cutting through a mixture of natural areas and agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado (Photo by Emilio Bruna).

The paper a group of students and I wrote in which we evaluate the gender composition of 10 editorial boards in environmental biology has just been published in the open access journal PeerJ.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - Arte e ciência nem sempre caminham juntas, mas um projeto novo da Universidade da Florida (UF) desafia esta afirmação. Estudantes do Instituto de Ciências Agrícolas e da Vida (IFAS) recentemente trabalharam em conjunto com o Museu de Arte Samuel P.

This is one of the reasons I am so glad I work at a university - I am surrounded by young, energetic, creative people. The University of Florida Symphony Orchestra is having a concert tomorrow night, and to advertise the strings were at the Century Tower with a stand, a baton, and a big sign that said “Conduct Us”.

Cris Jurinitz, a recent PhD from the University of São Paulo I co-advised with Alexandre Oliveira, has just published one of her thesis chapters in Biotropica. In it, she describes how early-stage survival of two shade-tolerant species is affected by canopy openness, litter depth, ontogenetic stage, and conspecific neighborhood in the understories of secondary forest fragments in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

Bruna Lab doctoral student Ernane Viera Neto was awarded the E. Lucy Braun Award for a poster he presented at the 2012 meeting of the Ecological Society of America detailing his research on how roads influence the distribution and demography of leaf-cutter ants (Atta) Brazil’s Cerrado.