METRO
Professional ‘midget wrestling’ entertains Gainesville
By David Hoffman | Sep. 17, 2017For the third year in a row, Gainesville got a taste of the biggest little show on earth.
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CAMPUS
Latino culture featured at Florida Museum
By Jimena Tavel | Sep. 17, 2017Although Risa and Paul George visited the Florida Museum of Natural History with their three granddaughters to see the frog exhibit, they stayed for the Latino festival Saturday.
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Contest aims to make UF Health more sustainable
By Robert Lewis | Sep. 17, 2017UF Health and PepsiCo Inc. will help UF Health Shands Hospital be environmentally conscious with an essay contest called It Pays to Think Green.
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UF to study those underrepresented in medical research
By Amanda Rosa | Sep. 17, 2017UF will join the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, a project that aims to collect data from 1 million Americans who are underrepresented in medical research.
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UF Health Shands Hospital joins women’s heart alliance
By Kacey Finch | Sep. 17, 2017UF Health Shands Hospital has joined a national alliance to teach women about heart disease and its risk factors.
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Florida Museum works to save endangered butterfly
By Olivia Sahnger | Sep. 17, 2017The Florida Museum of Natural History is re-establishing the Miami blue butterfly, a species at risk of extinction.
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UF standardizes new method of body measurement
By Davio Rodriguez | Sep. 17, 2017A more efficient body measurement, which may replace the body mass index as a growth standard for health organizations worldwide, has been validated by UF researchers.
METRO
Comedy benefit raises money for hurricane victims
By Noelle Kough | Sep. 17, 2017In the Heartwood Soundstage on Saturday, it rained laughter.
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Researchers find low oxygen leads to fetal brain damage
By Rosanne Ramraj | Sep. 17, 2017Reducing oxygen for just 30 minutes, known as hypoxia, can drive bacteria from the mother’s body into the fetus’s brain, UF researchers showed.
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Mice protein gives insight to dystonia therapies
By Champe Barton | Sep. 17, 2017UF researchers have made progress toward a more effective therapy for dystonia, a debilitating and poorly understood neurological disorder.
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UF researchers to use pig cells to study, treat influenza
By Champe Barton | Sep. 17, 2017The National Institutes of Health has awarded a team of UF researchers $2.7 million to study whether it can use a rare immune cell in pigs to treat influenza.
METRO
Gainesville Latino film festival to run through September
By Emily Nolan | Sep. 17, 2017Gainesville will get a taste of Latino flare on its screens for the rest of September.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
GPD: Man assaults two strangers
By Meryl Kornfield | Sep. 17, 2017Update Feb. 4, 2018: Connor Michael Lewis, 25, pled guilty with no contest, which is admitting to the facts of the case but not accepting fault, to one of two counts of battery on Jan. 8. Adjudication was withheld on the other count, meaning the judge ordered sanctions but didn't convict Lewis of the charge.
METRO
Medieval fair recruits actors
By Rhiana Suarez | Sep. 17, 2017When Sara Greenberg, a manager at Panera Bread, isn’t at her day job, she swings swords and wields daggers.
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SOCCER
Gators soccer team wins in OT, improves to 7-1 on season
By Morgan McMullen | Sep. 17, 2017Sophomore transfer Parker Roberts, a former Kansas Jayhawk, knew heading into the weekend that Florida’s road game against Iowa State would present a unique challenge.
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COLUMNS
Column: Gators midfielder Lais Araujo worthy of the hype
By Morgan McMullen | Sep. 17, 2017Lais Araujo, the junior midfielder from Salvador, Brazil, is no stranger to the hype.
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FOOTBALL
Franks: I wasn’t intending on throwing ball at beginning of final play
By Dylan Dixon | Sep. 16, 2017Feleipe Franks didn’t go into the final play of Florida’s home opener against Tennessee on Saturday expecting to throw a 63-yard hail mary as time expired.
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VOLLEYBALL
Gators bash Bisons, keep perfect season alive
By Justin Ahlum | Sep. 16, 2017Rhamat Alhassan approached the net as Allie Monserez set the shot for her. With a jump and a smack, Alhassan sent a roaring attempt into the hardwood floors of the O’Connell Center, leading her team to a win over the Lipscomb Bisons, 25-20, 25-16, 19-25, 25-16 .
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FOOTBALL
Gators top Tennessee, 26-20, on last-second touchdown pass
By Matt Brannon | Sep. 16, 2017Tyrie Cleveland raised his hand like a student who had the answer.
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COLUMNS
Column: Franks, Florida’s receivers are good enough to win now
By Ethan Bauer | Sep. 16, 2017Florida’s offense has for years wandered aimlessly through the Desert of Mediocrity. And for most of Saturday, it continued to do so.
