UF's Engineers Week gets green-certified
By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Jan. 23, 2012Although UF's Engineers Week has been around for 60 years, this year it will make history as the first to be green-certified by UF's Office of Sustainability.
Although UF's Engineers Week has been around for 60 years, this year it will make history as the first to be green-certified by UF's Office of Sustainability.
Despite former President John F. Kennedy's adage, the sole justification for laws is to benefit and protect the citizens they govern.
While I couldn't really figure out exactly what Travis Hornsby was advocating for or complaining about, the main thrust of his column on Monday — that poor people would be just fine if only the rich were allowed to hang onto their assets in totality — is just plain wrong.
The debate over embodiment, or whether our minds and bodies are connected, continues today.
A Gainesville man was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse after he hit his girlfriend's baby Thursday night, according to Gainesville Police.
UF students use off-campus tutoring services more than on-campus tutoring, according to the 2011 Students' Experience in the Research University, or SERU, survey.
A new airline will bring about 60 jobs to the city when it sets up shop.
Santa Fe College has added extra police officers, lights and self-defense classes on campus after the Jan. 12 kidnapping.
Four restaurants that are popular with UF students are among the city restaurants that have been hit with health-code violations in the past five months — including some that resulted from an inspection as recent as Friday.
Down by three points with six seconds to play, Florida had one final chance to tie.
After watching his team squander a 16-point, second-half lead against LSU, coach Billy Donovan wasn’t surprised UF let another Southeastern Conference team avoid a blowout — just disappointed.
Will Muschamp doesn’t come off as a warm and fuzzy guy.
A 10-foot-tall cardboard skyscraper puppet plastered with corporation logos pumped its huge arms over a chanting crowd at the Alachua County Courthouse on Friday.
In a scene that seemed to be straight from "Dateline: To Catch a Predator," a former youth-league swim coach was arrested in connection with a child sex predator sting.
Patric Young’s most impressive play from Saturday night can’t be found in the box score.
UF and four other universities each received a portion of a grant donated by AT&T to UTeach, a national program that trains math and science teachers.
While Hunter Joyer might be the Florida football team’s future at the fullback position, on Sunday the freshman put his throwing skills on display.
The start of early voting for Gainesville City Commission and the Republican Presidential Preference Primary elections, heralded by speeches and music, saw about 750 people vote this weekend.
Far away from the friendly confines of Linder Stadium, the No. 8 Florida men’s tennis team opened its dual match season on Sunday in Waco, Texas, with a convincing 6-1 win over No. 5 Baylor.
Neighbors can be as annoying as cheapskates who sneak into churches to do laundry rather than go to a laundromat.