Three UF engineering students took home $25,000 from the Gator Business Plan Competition on May 2 for their invention of aqUV, a bottle that purifies water using hand-powered ultraviolet light.
By day, Gainesville resident Dianne Farb is a practicing attorney, but by night, she trades her legal name in for her pen name, Rebecca Heflin, and writes romance novels.
The Spider-Man franchise did right by its fans when they chose Andrew Garfield for the series reboot, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” which premiered May 2 in the U.S. and earned about $92 million in its opening weekend. Though our superheroes have been and will be portrayed by many actors, we should appreciate when one performance so completely captures what we love about a familiar character.
ORLANDO — It’s not easy to stand in front of a fanbase that just witnessed a 4-8 season and tell them everything is going to get better.
The last time Florida faced Vanderbilt, the Commodores had won 14 of its previous 15 matches and had a comfortable lead atop the Southeastern Conference standings.
The Gators enter the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships in Lexington, Ky., today with the men’s and women’s teams both ranked No. 1 in the nation and each with a chance to become outdoor champions for the first time since 2010 and 2009, respectively.
After falling in the first round of the NCAA tournament last season to Denver, Florida has entered this year’s postseason with a reformed attitude and a strong will to win the national title.
Bright stage lights suddenly dimmed as thousands of people yelled and screamed in anticipation. A cube lit up, which revealed a kitchen table and gray smoke. Suddenly two silhouettes appeared and burst to life as everyone sprung from their seats and cheered in utter glee. The energetic notes of “Bombs Over Baghdad” played over the speakers — Outkast had finally returned to Florida.
Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li may have just released one of the best albums of 2014 thus far.
Guests at this year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala, held last week, paid homage to Anglo-American couturier Charles James with a host of trendy looks.
Summer A is upon us once again, and it’s a welcome relief. Campus is quiet — at least, until hordes of freshly minted UF first-years arrive for Preview — and we’re free to enjoy the last weeks of less-hellish weather before the brutal north Florida summer humidity sets in.
After spending years attacking President Barack Obama and the Democrats for the Affordable Care Act, Republicans watched in horror as 8 million Americans signed up for health insurance coverage through the exchanges set up by the law. The Republicans’ chief line of attack for the election came undone at the news that the number of uninsured Americans plummeted.
I was 16 years old when I most vividly remember being judged for the color of my skin. I was a black kid with a crush on a white girl, and I’ll never forget the way I felt when she told me that her mother had made it clear that our relationship wasn’t OK. If the girl’s father were still alive, he absolutely wouldn’t have let it happen, she said.
In a season where non-conference midweek matchups have proved to be potential pitfalls for Florida, coach Kevin O’Sullivan needed a strong performance from the top of his lineup to turn the tide Tuesday night against USF.
On a college student’s budget, Chipotle’s recent price increase could mean a lot.
Gainesville residents are reacting to the news that the Food and Drug Administration will begin regulating the sale of e-cigarettes.
More than 60 Citizens Co-op member-owners voted Sunday to draft a compromise proposal that would appoint four interim members to the co-op’s board of directors and call for two current members to step down.
Internet buffering may soon be a thing of the past for select Gainesville apartment communities.
UF’s newly selected presidential search committee has begun the process of finding UF’s next president.
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