On Wednesday, the UF Board of Trustees selected Kent Fuchs to be the university’s next president. Fuchs currently serves as the provost of Cornell University, one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.
A man armed with a rifle held a woman hostage before turning the gun on himself Tuesday night.
Last Wednesday, rockstar astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gave the keynote address at a conference for the information security industry. I refer to him as a rockstar because he’s the only astrophysicist I know by name. I’d imagine I’m not alone.
Former “The Cosby Show” and “That’s So Raven” child star “set the Twitter on fire” Sunday night, according to Oprah Winfrey.
Contemporary Christian artist Jason Gray’s “With Every Act of Love Tour” will grace Gainesville tonight.
It took less than three minutes for the Board of Trustees to unanimously determine UF’s 12th president, Kent Fuchs (pronounced “fox”), on Wednesday.
Now is the time to start preparing for the holidays ahead. No, we don’t mean shopping or menu planning, which are good ideas by the way, but preparing for the social events ahead. Ways to fine-tune your social etiquette are to know how to give good toasts, a universal practice of honoring a person or occasion with an expression of goodwill and a drink. The holidays present many opportunities to give toasts with gatherings of friends and family ahead, including parties, winter weddings and graduations.
It’s great to be a Florida Gator – and to live in Gainesville.
UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences has partnered with two global agricultural companies to help sustain the world’s growing population by 2050.
Residents participated in an evening of live demonstrations, giveaways and tours at Gainesville Police headquarters Wednesday as a part of Celebrate Safe Communities.
A Citra, Florida man accused of attempting to cash fraudulent checks evaded capture for two hours Wednesday as he led a force of police officers, helicopters and K-9 units on a manhunt through dense forests and swampy grounds.
With a set that features bloody mannequins chained to walls and a bathtub full of bloody body parts and severed heads, the Hippodrome State Theatre’s Halloween play isn’t scared of getting a little messy this year.
Billy Donovan knows he has to rebuild.
Antonio Morrison is on a hot streak.
After the match’s first set, it appeared as if South Carolina would be the first Southeastern Conference team to hand Florida a loss this season.
If anyone deserves to have a great senior year, it’s Karina Gutsche.
For the first time this year the Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving team (M: 1-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference; W: 2-0, 2-0 SEC) will hit the road to face off against Kentucky (M: 0-1, 0-1 SEC; W: 1-0, 1-0 SEC) tonight at 7.
Commercial advertisements can be annoying, but most of us now have that handy-dandy thing called Netflix for all of our TV needs. However, avoiding advertisements during day-to day activities through other digital media is impossible, and we all still have our favorites.
As the upcoming midterm elections approach, the White House is encouraging college students to vote, and the local community is trying to do the same.
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