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Sunday, September 14, 2025

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On any given night, you’ll find a room full of Gator Motorsports team members working with all sorts of machines: lathes, saws and welders. In one corner of the workshop sits the object of their labor, the skeleton of a miniature Formula-1 car: the F16. In May, the students of Gator Motorsports will wheel out the completed race car in the Formula SAE Michigan competition, an event in which 120 teams from around the world pit their car designs against each other to see who can build the fastest, most efficient and most economical car.
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Built for Speed

On any given night, you’ll find a room full of Gator Motorsports team members working with all sorts of machines: lathes, saws and welders. In one corner of the workshop sits the object of their labor, the skeleton of a miniature Formula-1 car: the F16. In May, the students of Gator Motorsports will wheel out the completed race car in the Formula SAE Michigan competition, an event in which 120 teams from around the world pit their car designs against each other to see who can build the fastest, most efficient and most economical car.


Gainesville residents browse vendors’ wares on Wednesday afternoon at the first Union Street Farmers Market after the Bo Diddley Plaza renovation. Previously, the farmers market was being held on Lot 10 in downtown Gainesville.
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Union Street Farmers Market comes back to Bo Diddley

Gainesville residents browse vendors’ wares on Wednesday afternoon at the first Union Street Farmers Market after the Bo Diddley Plaza renovation. Previously, the farmers market was being held on Lot 10 in downtown Gainesville.


The Vietnamese Student Organization hosted Tet, its 43rd annual Lunar New Year celebration, on Sunday. The theme of the event, which took place in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, was “A New Age.” It included games and chances to win raffle tickets before the show and during intermission, as well as performances by singers, dancers and martial artists. 
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Ringing in the Year of the Monkey

The Vietnamese Student Organization hosted Tet, its 43rd annual Lunar New Year celebration, on Sunday. The theme of the event, which took place in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, was “A New Age.” It included games and chances to win raffle tickets before the show and during intermission, as well as performances by singers, dancers and martial artists. 


A pair of friends and parkour veterans explore and vault across campus. 
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Up in the Air

A pair of friends and parkour veterans explore and vault across campus. 


Florida got a commitment from gymnast Danielle Ferris, as Ferris announced on her Instagram Sunday.
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O'Dome Sweep

Florida got a commitment from gymnast Danielle Ferris, as Ferris announced on her Instagram Sunday.


UF held its 14th Biennial Muscular Research Conference from Wednesday until today. The Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology in Health and Disease symposium is an international conference on studying and combating muscle wasting diseases. About 300 people were registered to attend the event, which featured 36 speakers. This year marked the grand opening of a new institute dedicated to myology, the study of muscles. The new institute plans to make UF the muscle hub of the research community, said Dr. Michael Good, the dean of the College of Medicine.
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Muscle Meets Metal

UF held its 14th Biennial Muscular Research Conference from Wednesday until today. The Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology in Health and Disease symposium is an international conference on studying and combating muscle wasting diseases. About 300 people were registered to attend the event, which featured 36 speakers. This year marked the grand opening of a new institute dedicated to myology, the study of muscles. The new institute plans to make UF the muscle hub of the research community, said Dr. Michael Good, the dean of the College of Medicine.



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