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Harn digital membership receives national recognition

The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art is receiving national attention for its digital member card app with a recent feature in artdaily.org.

Flooding on Museum

Water spills past barriers and sandbags onto the sidewalk along Museum Road. As of press time, the UF Physical Plant Division were unavailable to comment.

Darts & Laurels: shoddy arts and crafts, women's rights and, of course, balls

This week’s headlines were splattered with all kinds of hectic news: takes on the State of the Union address, renewed culture-war skirmishes surrounding “American Sniper,” and — let’s not forget — balls. Here’s this week’s edition of... 

Smathers exhibit offers insight into construction of Panama Canal

Frank Townsend doesn’t consider Panama home anymore, but he does miss the music and the coffee.

Most complete and most famous T. Rex Skeleton arrives at UF museum

Truck driver Dale Neubauer rolled his semi-trailer around the back of the Florida Museum of Natural History early Wednesday, lugging the bones of a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue.

Beatles fan has ‘every little thing’

A Dino Named Sue

Dale Neubauer, 65, supervises workers from the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Phillips Center for Performing Arts Center unload one of the crates in which Sue’s bones are packed. Each crate weighs about a ton.

UF construction of Reitz, residence halls still in progress

The new year is bringing new buildings and new projects to UF.

Gas Leak

A construction team works to fix a break in the gas line on Museum Road. The gas leak diverted cars and pedestrians for about five hours on Monday, Jan. 5. 

Gas leak on campus diverts traffic, students

Cars and pedestrians on campus had to take detours after a gas leak on Museum Road that began at about 2:30 p.m.

After four years and 297 bylines, Alligator lifer says farewell

I stand in the company of greatness. And it smells.

Student documentaries to be shown

 Tivoli Silas spent an entire week in the Reitz Union basement this semester.

Six UF faculty win for advancing science

The world’s largest general scientific society has honored six UF faculty for their research contributions.

‘IT FALLS ON MY SHOULDERS’: Muschamp takes blame for losses

TALLAHASSEE — Outside Doak Campbell Stadium lie the graves of the conquered. Florida State’s Sod Cemetery serves as the football program’s trophy case, boasting the buried battlegrounds from some of the Seminoles’ most memorable victories.

Additions made to annual space event at museum

Locals will have the chance to crawl through space and time as part of a new addition to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Starry Night on Friday.

County transportation tax hits road block at the polls

Roads, sidewalks and bike boxes won’t be enhanced in Alachua County’s near future, as voters rejected a 1-cent sales surtax Tuesday that would have addressed transportation issues.

New Hyppo location opening postponed until mid-November

West Gainesville residents will have to wait a little longer to savor gourmet ice pops off Archer Road.

Megalodon Mania: UF study shows species most likely extinct

Millions of years ago, 50-foot sharks swam, hunted and killed, and one UF student believes he has the tooth to prove it.

White House encourages students to vote, Gainesville prepares for elections

As the upcoming midterm elections approach, the White House is encouraging college students to vote, and the local community is trying to do the same.

Arts events to ‘Pop-Up’ around campus

 The UF College of Fine Arts will hold a “Pop-Up Culture” event Wednesday to celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month.