After accepting a few losses during this year’s legislative session, UF is getting some approval at a critical time for the university.
UF’s English Language Institute, or ELI, is looking for student volunteers for the Conversation Partner Program during Summer B. Volunteers will be paired with at least one non-English speaking student from another country and meet for a minimum of one hour each week.
Last week, Brian Johnson was not thinking about life after Omaha.
Joe: Rewind to January 1, 2012. The ball has dropped in New York City, and I’m drinking champagne out of a plastic wine glass. A fortune teller — decked out in purple robes with a crystal ball — saunters over and tells me the Gators will win three national championships in the first six months of the year and that John Carter would be the box-office bust of 2012.
Stinnett, a 21-year-old UF political science senior, isn’t alone. According to a study released Monday, 15 percent of iPhone users would choose a sex-free weekend over giving up their phone for the same amount of time.
When junior Dwight Barbiasz first started competing in the high jump in 2008, he had to spend that summer watching the Olympics from home. This year Barbiasz wants in.
Student Body President Tj Villamil left this position open later than others, hoping that more people would apply. UF junior Stephen Davis was chosen.
The trek is Wheeler’s way of giving back to his church, St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Tallahassee, and raising money for the construction of its new building.
Bus service will be reduced during the weeklong break between Summer A and Summer B.
Kouvaris Lamar Roberts was arrested on felony charges of robbery with a weapon and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
On Tuesday, a New York federal judge requested the Department of Homeland Security to seize the remains of a 70-million-year-old dinosaur artifact in New York City believed to have been stolen from Mongolia.
For Keri Johnson, a 27-year-old UF student studying religion and nature, and 36-year-old tattoo artist “Sleepy Dave” Kotinsley, a discussion that started about a thesis paper grew into a community meditation group.
Otter and Trout Trading Co., located at 625 W University Ave., recently added another room to its store to make space for the growing collection of herbs, books, gems and unusual gifts, but the renovations aren’t over.
Melnichuk, who spent her teenage years in Brooklyn, N.Y., painted throughout high school. She was accepted to the School of Visual Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design and other well-known art schools, as well as waitlisted at Carnegie Mellon for physics.
The Gators were the last team to leave Omaha disappointed in 2011. In 2012, they are one of the first.
The Gators’ untimely demise at this year’s College World Series was unexpected to say the least.
When you were in high school, did you ever visit the school nurse only to be told that they couldn’t give you any medication?
Chemical engineering sophomores Pearl Leung, 19, Michael Cornwell, 20, and Brittany Clendening, 19, planned a bus route to Lake Wauburg for a summer class project. They decided their proposal was worth more than a grade.
In a gentle act of kindness from the universe, I turned 21 last week. This fall signals the beginning of my last year here at UF.
The Obama administration said Friday it will grant a two-year protection from deportation to undocumented students who were brought to the United States before the age of 16 and allow them to apply for work permits.
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