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About five months after a UF student riding her bicycle near Midtown was killed by a garbage truck, one of her best friends hopes to teach his peers at UF about bicycle safety.
Nancy Hunt is using a gangster film, a comics workshop and a discussion of masculinity to change how students view the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an African country stained by violence and civil wars.
After her sister was sexually assaulted as a teenager, UF alumna Jacqueline Ros created a product to make notifying friends of unsafe situations easier.
A new beer at First Magnitude Brewing Company is designed with butterflies in mind.
It’s that time of the semester that makes or breaks us. Final projects are piling up, midterm grades are in — final exams around the corner. It’s that lull before the storm; just a few weeks from finals, just a few weeks from the ultimate deadlines, just a few weeks before we can’t drop a class, just a few weeks before we register for classes. We were pulled into a sense of false security over Spring Break, but now it’s time to kick ourselves into action.
If you grew up with the basic cable package while the rest of your kindergarten classmates were watching “SpongeBob SquarePants,” you tuned into shows like “Arthur,” “Sesame Street” and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” on your local PBS station. This was before the days of Netflix and Amazon Prime, and if your parents didn’t have one of those fancy satellite dishes, then you were limited to just a handful of basic channels, and your days of television included Barney the dinosaur and “Dragon Tales.” If you’re one of those people, we hope you’re smiling fondly. Even if you were fortunate to have Playhouse Disney or Nickelodeon, you’ve probably at least seen some of the old PBS Kids shows.
Ah, St. Patrick’s Day. The day when most Americans will proudly thump their chests, claim distant Irish heritage (yes, we get it Karen, your great-great-great-great grand-mother was Irish) and raise a pint to the air, singing what they think sounds like an Irish folk song. There may be shamrocks and green glitter involved. If you’re trapped in lecture and counting down the hours to your own St. Patty’s Day celebration, take a moment to prepare your toasts for tonight and go over this week’s...
A view of the newly renovated portion of Plaza of the Americas from Library West.
UF students came back from Spring Break to a half-renovated Plaza of the Americas — and some were not impressed with the university’s latest project.
A view of the newly renovated portion of Plaza of the Americas from Library West.
When Donald Trump became president, 36-year-old Alissa Old Crow was devastated.
Recently installed scanners at UF’s libraries will help visually impaired students translate words into sound.
Oral histories about the Women’s March on Washington, collected by UF students, will soon be available to the public.
Despite about 54 percent of UF degree-seeking students being female in Fall 2015, according to the most recent UF data, students will vote today and Wednesday for an all-male Student Government executive ticket.
Abigail Dougherty once told her mother that when she died, she wanted a seed planted in her memory.
A California-based smartphone app delivered $1 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches to students at UF for five hours Thursday.
Impact Party plans to release its platform today after gathering ideas from more than 200 students Thursday and Friday.
Today, I’m in Boston with UF alumni celebrating the induction of five UF faculty members as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and this week’s meeting has 10,000 attendees. UF now has 51 AAAS fellows, an indicator of our excellence in science and engineering.
A student who will lead soldiers into battle after graduating was unanimously approved Tuesday by UF Student Senate as the next Student Government Veteran’s Affairs executive cabinet director.
Students at a Gainesville high school listened attentively Tuesday as an award-winning author spoke about how she wants to inspire them to be heard.
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