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1. RTS bus service unavailable on Memorial Day GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- There will be no RTS bus service on Monday because of the Memorial Day holiday. 2. Bob Graham Center at UF to honor environmental activist as Citizen of the Year GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A Floridian who has worked tirelessly to preserve the state’s natural resources, including the Everglades, has been named the inaugural Bob Graham Center Citizen of the Year. 3. Weekend convention to affect parking at O’Connell Center GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A Jehovah's Witnesses convention this weekend will affect parking at the O’Connell Center. 4. UF Health: New name signals new era in health care delivery GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center, is now University of Florida Health, university officials announced today. 5. UFPD joins national effort to ensure seat belt use GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The University of Florida Police Department has joined law officers nationwide this week in the "Click It or Ticket" campaign to get drivers and passengers to use seat belts. 6. Meeting Wednesday will take up spaces in O’Connell lot GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- About 150 orange spaces in the northwest section of the O'Connell Center parking lot will be reserved for a special event Wednesday morning. 7. Statistical portal now available through Smathers GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries now subscribe to Statista.com, the first statistics portal in the world to integrate data on more than 60,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform. 8. Researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study nutrition in low birth weight infants GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida nursing researcher has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how to best and most safely nourish very low birth weight infants, who weigh less than 3.3 pounds. The funding will allow researchers to study a standard clinical treatment used to assess these infants’ nutritional status to determine if it is beneficial or risky to the baby. 9. UF International Center recognizes oustanding area teachers GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The University of Florida International Center has recognized four area teachers for international endeavors in their classrooms. 10. Bartoshuk to receive lifetime achievement award GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida professor Linda Bartoshuk wants you to taste a better tomato. She wants you to taste the best and most delicious tomato you have ever eaten. And she is working diligently with horticultural sciences professor Harry Klee to make that elusive tomato a reality. This is just the latest in Bartoshuk’s long career of research.