With their sequined prom dresses shining in the sun, about 30 women wrapped their arms around one another and smiled wide for the camera. Some had their hair in curls, and others donned tiaras.
A UF team "playing catch" with solar energy won a $20,000 grant to help them get it right.
The amber wood-paneled dance floor vibrated as bass beats rumbled through the room. Two crews lined up on opposite sides, eyes set on their opponents. The DJ scratched the record, and suddenly bodies flew across the floor and lifted into air, freezing in acrobatic and abstract poses.
The SFCC campus was evacuated Friday morning after a faculty member found a bomb threat written on a campus wall.
Three members of UF's computer programming club are competing against student teams from around the world this week in the finals of a competition sponsored by IBM.
The UF College of Medicine's dean may have violated national accreditation standards by overruling the college's selections committee and admitting a student from a politically connected family.
Even after more than 26 hours without access to chairs or beds, more than 650 UF students participating in Dance Marathon jumped to their feet at the sight of a six-digit figure this weekend.
The SFCC campus was evacuated Friday morning after a faculty member found a bomb threat written on a campus bathroom wall.
After a year and a half of research and debate, the student health insurance committee at UF has agreed on a new insurance plan, which is set to begin in August.
About 650 UF students will participate in non-stop bop this weekend for Dance Marathon, a fundraiser that benefits the Children's Miracle Network at Shands Children's Hospital at UF.
Rental rates for on-campus residences will increase by $65 per semester this fall.
UF students could get a chance to vote on whether a 5 percent technology fee is implemented, according to a bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate's Committee on Higher Education Appropriations.
A shrill cry pierced the air of a hospital room in Zambia as a young woman fell to her knees, clutching a limp bundle wrapped in a white sheet.
UF and Morehouse College are teaming up to encourage college students to be more active in their communities on today's 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
UF's Student Senate president said plans to revise Student Body statutes and the replacement-senator process are underway following questions surrounding another senator's residence.
Construction to add five classrooms to the Florida Gym began Tuesday.
Police are looking for a man who reportedly attacked a woman early Wednesday morning in the Constans Theatre, located adjacent to the Reitz Union.
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Oshinsky spoke at UF Wednesday night about the historical and cultural effects that polio, which hasn't been seen in the U.S. in two decades, has had on the 20th century.
UF research projects were given more than $3 million in grants from the Florida Legislature, the Board of Governors announced on Wednesday.
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