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Akshat Pant (left) and Nishant Nagururu (right) promote Candor, an app that connects UF students to Student Government, at the Curtis M. Phillips Center on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023.

NEWS

UF students create app to connect Student Government with student body

By Vivienne Serret | Aug. 28

Akshat Pant, a 20-year-old UF computer science junior, and Nishant Nagururu, a 19-year-old UF computer science sophomore, had a vision to design an application streamlining students’ connection with SG. The app is called Candor — meaning open, honest and sincere. Pant and Nagururu picked the name after realizing they wanted to make an app providing those qualities to the student body.

TIAA Bank Field, the home stadium of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, also serves as host for the annual Florida-Georgia game. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SPANISH

El campus de UF Jacksonville recibirá $75 millones

By Nicole Beltrán and Sally Brown | June 19

El gobernador Ron DeSantis aprobó $75 millones para el propuesto campus de UF en Jacksonville a mediados de otros vetos presupuestarios de medio millón de dólares.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF says goodbye to oldest campus tree

By Ella Thompson | Apr. 24

UF’s first resident wasn’t a person, but a tree. Sprouting before the university was founded, a longleaf pine near Keene-Flint Hall has watched UF grow into what it is today. In April, the tree was declared dead.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Embracing my first-generation identity

By Miguel Pascual | Nov. 10

OPINION: I will continue to luchar por mis estudios because I’m a bright individual who earned his place here at UF. I will not allow anyone or anything to tell me otherwise.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

UF appeals class action lawsuit for Spring and Summer 2020 fee refund

By Sandra McDonald | July 11, 2022

A former student’s lawsuit arguing UF violated its contract when it required the student body to pay for on-campus amenities despite COVID-19 restrictions will see the Florida First District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee July 20.

METRO

Florida artist to memorialize UF professor and replace Confederate statue

By Mickenzie Hannon | June 6, 2022

A sculpture dedicated to a Gainesville activist and African American studies professor will replace a confederate soldier statue that used to sit downtown.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Pinned plans: Pivotal architecture showcase returns to campus

By Fernando Figueroa | Apr. 11, 2022

The secret scene of organized chaos, accented with lonely Exacto knives and abandoned t-squares scattered across the atrium’s cement floor, may be unfamiliar to many UF students. But every Spring, second-year architecture majors face PIN UP, a daunting task that determines if they continue in UF’s architecture program.

An emergency blue light is seen near Broward Dining Facility. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE

UPD offers changes on campus following a sexual assault, kidnapping attempt

By Maya Erwin | Sep. 29, 2021

UPD says its working to keep students safe on campus with more lighting, safety training and police presence

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE

Pandemic freshmen and sophomores detail their on-campus journeys

Sep. 7, 2021

The pandemic gap left students keen to explore, connect and find their place in Gainesville whether through social media, crowded buses or places of worship.

SPANISH

UF celebra su nueva LLC destinada a ayudar a los Gators de primera generación

By Isabella Barnet , Melissa Hernandez De La Cruz and Saira González | Sep. 3, 2021

Antes de que comenzara el semestre de otoño, Nicole Guerra no habría tenido la opción de vivir en una LLC diseñada para estudiantes como ella. Guerra y otros Gators de primera generación están haciendo historia al ser algunos de los primeros residentes en vivir en la LLC recién inaugurada.

People eating at The Swamp Restaurant in 2019. Gainesville's iconic restaurant will return at a new location closer to downtown in 2022.

NEWS | CAMPUS

The Swamp restaurant to return to Gainesville in new location

By Kalia Richardson | Dec. 13, 2020

The restaurant, previously located at 1642 W. University Ave. in Midtown, will be moved to 1026 SW Second Ave. in the Gainesville Innovation District, two blocks from UF’s campus. Construction will begin in the summer of 2021 and is expected to take 12 to 14 months.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF installs license plate recognition technology to increase campus security

By Julia Bauer | Dec. 11, 2020

UF installed license plate readers at intersections around campus to improve safety and security. The license plate readers, installed in October, are cameras that constantly scan vehicle license plates and capture photos of the backs of vehicles.

NEWS | CAMPUS

With more in-person classes inbound, students decide where to live

By Nora O'Neill | Dec. 9, 2020

COVID-19-related apartment vacancies, as well as excitement and uncertainty surrounding the increase of in-person classes this Spring, are forcing UF students and Gainesville apartments alike to continue adjusting to housing needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photo of the completed roundabout near Lakeside Residential Complex.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Construction by Lakeside housing completed nearly two months late

By Juliana Ryan | Oct. 18, 2020

The noise interrupted transportation and student life in the area

NEWS | CAMPUS

DeSantis orders businesses reopened across Florida; reactions mixed

By Thomas Weber | Sep. 30, 2020

Gov. DeSantis’ Phase 3 order has some businesses eager to reopen — some with safety guidelines, and others without. City officials are less hopeful

Hannah Lyons, 22, a UF first-year medical student, swabs a patient in the drive-through line in Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. UF Community Health and Family Medicine, SW Advocacy Group and the Alachua County Health Department teamed up to organize this free-testing event from 9a.m. - 1p.m. (Lauren Witte/Alligator Staff)

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF expands testing procedures in response to student and faculty complaints

By Thomas Weber | Sep. 27, 2020

Saliva tests and several new on-campus testing sites are now available, but mandatory and walk-up testing still isn’t in UF’s current plans

NEWS | CAMPUS

Scholarship recipients forced to live on campus despite threat of COVID-19

By Thomas Weber | Sep. 24, 2020

A full-ride to UF could cost a life for recipients of the Benacquisto Scholarship.

Corbin Bolies, 21, university administration reporter for The Independent Florida Alligator, met for an exclusive interview with UF President Kent Fuchs, 65, on Wednesday.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Fuchs sees UF on top as students hit rock bottom

By Corbin Bolies | Sep. 21, 2020

It was nearly 1 p.m. on a Wednesday in September and UF President Kent Fuchs, jacket-less and donning a white KN95 mask, was running late.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF now requires face-coverings while outdoors

By Rachel Slay | Sep. 16, 2020

Unless social distancing can be maintained, masks must be worn at all times on UF property.

METRO | CRIMINAL JUSTICE

UF student reports rape at an unknown fraternity Friday

By Sarah Mandile | Aug. 31, 2020

UF notified students of the incident Monday afternoon in congruence with The Clery Act