Research Roundup: October 4, 2016
In order to improve conservation research on Florida’s Nature Coast, UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is working with Santa Fe College at Cedar Key.
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In order to improve conservation research on Florida’s Nature Coast, UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is working with Santa Fe College at Cedar Key.
Jim McElwain is tired of waiting.
This year, Burrito Bros. Taco Co. is celebrating its 40th anniversary — and its lowest sales in years.
As Gary Chancey cleared the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area on last Tuesday, he found two gray animals trapped in a foot-and-a-half-deep body of water.
The months-long search for a missing Gainesville woman may be over.
When her fiance died about a year ago, 61-year-old Judith Flarity started living out of a tent at Dignity Village, surrounded by thick trees and woodlands.
Still going strong despite the stigma of growing old, athletes ages 50 and older will compete Friday in Olympic-style events.
You’re sitting alone in your car in Archer Road’s typical rush-hour traffic. As a small commando unit of scooters whizzes by you left and right, you fiddle with the radio, looking for something to listen to. As you’re navigating through the various snippets of sound, one station grabs your attention and demands you to listen. It’s just one man’s voice, chanting something over and over and over again. You find this uncomfortable and unsettling. What is it this strange man chants? Well, dear readers, that something is…
With Gainesville residents protesting oil pipelines Tuesday, we here at the Alligator thought we’d offer some insight into what’s going on in our beautiful state.
The construction of low-income housing planned for Gainesville received a monetary boost Tuesday.
Just before the start of Gator football season, Gainesville made it legal for fans to drink on their Uber rides to the game.
What do you get when you mix a massive oil pipeline, an unregulated oil market and a Native American protest movement making international headlines? The next Quentin Tarantino Western movie… or what’s happening in North Dakota.
At the first Student Senate meeting of Fall, 23 students were approved as assistant supervisors of elections.
When Paula Rötscher came to UF from Germany in 2012, she was greeted with open arms. But she noticed not all international students had as easy a time.
The Alachua County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve a $73.6-million-dollar budget for the county’s Sheriff’s Office for 2017, but the board raised concerns about Sheriff Sadie Darnell’s unapproved expenses.
During Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting, the Student Senate unanimously approved nine bills that will put nine amendments to the constitution on the Spring 2017 ballot, including one for online voting.
My roommate, a modest conservative, had to endure the sight of me last week going full-fetal on our sofa, hugging a pillow, while I watched Fox News coverage of the Republican National Convention. “Why are you even watching this?” he asked, knowing full well my left-of-center views. “It’s like a train wreck,” I replied. “You just can’t look away.”
China may have invented fireworks more than 2,000 years ago, but fireworks have been linked to America since the birth of this country. In a letter to Abigail Adams on July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote that the signing of the Declaration of Independence should be celebrated with “... Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” While fireworks were once championed by a future president and first lady, they are now advocated by Joe Dirts with butane lighters.
Progress made on cutting costs in controlling invasive aquatic plants
Professors at UF tend to be more liberal on paper but more moderate and unbiased in practice, according to an analysis of campaign contributions.