The No. 6 Florida baseball team is three-quarters of the way through the regular season. With just 14 games before postseason play begins — including a midweek against Bethune-Cookman tonight — here are three questions for the Gators.
There has been a 25 percent decline in deaths from oxycodone overdoses since a drug monitoring program was implemented in Florida.
Rod Johnson’s life changed on April 3.
Winning a third-straight national title on Saturday night was by far the highlight of the UF gymnastics team’s season. During a year of ups and downs, here are five moments that stood out above the rest:
Local authorities arrested two men early Sunday after they reportedly had two methamphetamine labs in their car.
Despite a recent massacre April 2 at Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, that left 147 dead, the UF in Kenya study-abroad program is mostly concerned with buffalo sightings.
Former UF quarterback Tim Tebow signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday afternoon. As he looks for another opportunity to resurrect his football playing career, here’s a look back at his time in the NFL:
UF Online earned a new distinction among the nation’s online colleges.
With the first weekend of the playoffs in the books, nine former Gators are hoping to make it out of the first round.
The result was the same.
As Kytra Hunter walked off the floor for the final time, coach Rhonda Faehn gave her a long hug.
Peter Alonso finally found his groove.
Rhonda Faehn is building a dynasty.
The Florida men’s golf team finished tied for seventh place at the Southeastern Conference Championships, shooting a 2-over-par in St. Simons Island, Georgia, this weekend.
It’s easy to forget about that $18 per credit hour that’s funneled to Student Government. But this past year’s executive ticket spent it — almost exactly the way they promised they would in their platform.
Transitioning is expensive.
Michael Church started to notice a slight tremor in his left pinky in times of high stress when he reached his 30s.
A boat laden with up to 950 people capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday. Its passengers were migrants bound for Europe escaping the limited opportunities, war and chaos of their home countries. The ship left from Libya, a failed state which has descended into civil war, where ISIS executes people on the beach. Who can blame them for wanting to leave?
Denisha Merriweather recently wrote about her schooling experience in The Wall Street Journal. She was in fourth grade, and she hated school. She was held back twice, disliked going to school and thought she would end up as a high school dropout. She grew up with her biological mother but moved around a lot, which took a heavy toll on her grades and enthusiasm for learning. In her own words, “learning had become a nightmare — a punishment for being a child.” Denisha’s story is not a unique one. Unfortunately, there are kids in all 50 states who resent education. Some of these negative frameworks are out of the government’s control, but I would argue most of it is due to an educational system stuck in the 20th century and bogged down by bureaucracy. We all know education reform is desperately needed, but no one, especially our elected officials, is ever willing to confront the problem.
When I was an electrical engineering student, most of my classmates looked like me and thought like me. Companies have learned in recent decades that having a workforce that consists mostly of white male engineers narrows their perspective and limits their capacity to innovate. We have learned that organizations are more likely to be successful over the long term if their members contribute racial, cultural, gender, geographic and disciplinary breadth. Similarly, top universities increasingly have students and faculty who bring a rich tapestry of knowledge and understanding due to their different races, religions and numerous other areas of experience and perspective.
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