Yom Kippur is a day of atonement and reflection during which Jewish people ask for forgiveness for any wrongdoings, according to Rabbi Gail Swedroe, the newest campus rabbi at UF Hillel. There is also a 25-hour period of fasting.
With Internet cafes causing controversy across the state, a Gainesville resident has voiced her concern about the stores to the city commission.
A UF research team will work with about 200 parents and children during a childhood obesity awareness and intervention workshop Thursday.
The Florida Museum of Natural History received a three-year $339,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for researchers to expand their digitized collection of invertebrate specimens.
Jo Dragotta was doing her best to keep her mind clear.
About 10 people attended the Student Senate meeting in support of a referendum that asks students if they want to rename the Reitz Union after Virgil Hawkins, an African-American man who was denied entrance to UF in 1949.
Akito Kawahara, an assistant curator at the McGuire Center of Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, received the one-year grant to do field research in Central America to investigate the tobacco hornworm and relatives.
Candidates for county and state elections held an open forum at Westside Baptist Church on Tuesday evening.
Despite the daunting nature of starting a business, two UF alumnae have taken the plunge to create their own startups. One launched her business this month, and another is celebrating one year running a successful website.
The Jones B-side, a restaurant with a focus on locally grown and vegan fare, officially opened Tuesday afternoon at 203 SW Second Ave.
Gators March for Babies will host its first charity golf tournament Saturday at the Meadowbrook Golf Club supporting March of Dimes, an effort to help all babies have a healthy and full-term birth.
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is gathering volunteers to remove Ardisia, an invasive plant, from 9 a.m. to noon as part of National Public Lands Day.
Chamber singers in the Concert Choir will headline the 17th annual Encuentro Coral de Musica Colombiana in Buga, Colombia, from Oct. 16 to Oct. 21. The noncompetitive international choral festival will feature about 25 choirs from six countries — and UF’s is the first North American choir to be invited.
Joe: When the sun rises in Gainesville this Saturday, everything will be a little bit brighter.
Diego Aguilar, 43, and the volunteers were part of dozens of friends and family who searched the woods near Cabana Beach Apartments and State Road 121 on Monday for Christian Aguilar.
A small kitchen fire on a stove led to students living in Beaty Towers being evacuated late Monday night.
Someone in a Safeway recorded a video on her cellphone when she noticed something funny about a volunteer who was registering voters outside of the store. She saw that the volunteer had begun asking people which presidential candidate they would vote for before offering to register them to vote.
In the midst of the prejudice, discrimination and hate that seemed to rule the era, an act of kindness in regard to these students’ well-being catapulted numerous other significant events. Doing something unconventional, and at the time socially unacceptable, for the benefit of a few would eventually make all the difference in how this country treats people of all backgrounds.
Muschamp introduced the catch phrase “Man down, man up” after Florida’s game against Texas A&M, and the words have never been more relevant.
The Harrell Professional Development Assessment Center, part of the UF College of Medicine, uses standardized patients to let medical students practice everything from reading vital signs to performing prostate exams.
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