Plaza Ice Palace skating rink opening put on ice until Friday
The Nov. 23 opening of the downtown Plaza Ice Palace skating rink has been postponed until Friday due to technical problems.
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The Nov. 23 opening of the downtown Plaza Ice Palace skating rink has been postponed until Friday due to technical problems.
Funnel cake, a Ferris wheel and an Alaskan grizzly bear only come together once a year.
President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney will face off for the third and final presidential debate at 9 p.m. tonight. The event will take place about 300 miles away, but the impact will resonate everywhere — especially on the Internet.
With a hotdog in one hand and a drumstick in the other, 70-year-old John Fullerton pounded out a steady beat as 13 people and a dog ambled down University Avenue.
For Lochlin Cravey, showing school spirit meant camping out next to Emerson Alumni Hall with pillows and blankets, lining up for a pancake breakfast and scoring a coveted “BEAT LSU” T-shirt Friday morning.
University and city officials have been working to cut down drunken driving on campus and to aid addicted students in seeking help. So far, officials say they’ve seen progress.
The architects behind the Reitz Union renovations are going to bring students’ opinions to their drawing board.
After Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s initial voting purge of potential noncitizens was over, one Alachua County voter was removed.
One boy watched his friend die. Another met Elvis Presley and was never the same. Small-town living felt more like Israel than cosmopolitan Westfield, N.J. did, and the Cold War breathed down the necks of ordinary families.
UF students wanting to go green can start the old-fashioned way.
The Democratic Party’s biggest names gathered in Charlotte, N.C., to support President Barack Obama’s bid for a second term, but some of his hardest-working student supporters watched crowded around a projector screen at UF.
Community college students in Miami have a chance to earn microbiology degrees from UF without the six-hour drive.
When two men and a gun were spotted in a Shands at UF garage last week, cellphones all over campus started buzzing with rapid-fire UF Alert text messages and emails.
Reform Judaism magazine recently ranked UF as the American public university with the largest undergraduate Jewish population. UF has 6,500 Jewish students, which is 17 percent of the Student Body, according to the magazine.
With a little help from a local nonprofit organization, a vacant lot in a downtown neighborhood could feed the homeless.
UF’s co-ed competitive a cappella group is upping the tempo this year.
When it comes to books, everyone is looking for a bargain.
Whether new students seek a natural escape or cultural immersion in Gainesville, the answer is somewhere nearby.
Researchers at the UF Genetics Institute have identified the gene causing brain-related symptoms of the most common muscular dystrophy in adults.
In collared blue shirts and headgear, the brains of NASA’s mission control center gripped their seats, staring into computer screens. They were quiet those last five seconds, desperate to make history.