UF announced Tuesday it will receive a five-year, $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to cut the time it takes for scientific breakthroughs to become incorporated into medical practices.
Tuesday's editorial regarding Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was filled with much of the same "empathy" we expect Sotomayor to rule with, but little fact.
As confirmed and probable swine flu cases continue to mount across the state, the total exceeding 2,000, UF students have not been immune.
There are three events that consistently mark the middle of July on my calendar - the release of the annual update to EA Sports' NCAA Football game (which my colleague Adam Berry so generously opined on in Tuesday's paper), my birthday (today, time to do it big) and the always-interesting ESPY Awards.
The wide-sweeping health insurance reform that President Barack Obama has promised is finally on its way to being delivered, and the Editorial Board is not sure how to feel about it.
This fall many UF students will take the hour-and-a-half trek up to Jacksonville for the yearly tradition of the UF-Georgia football game. But if President Machen has his way, students will find a very different situation awaiting them in Jacksonville.
Drivers can expect traffic delays across central Gainesville to end no earlier than September 2011, according to a state official.
It is the year of open-mindedness. We have a black president, and there's a good chance we'll have our first Hispanic Supreme Court judge. States are falling to gay marriage faster than the value of the American dollar. And the number one selling genre of music in our modern times is country.
This fall, students will enjoy 300 more parking spaces than last semester.
Soon-to-be-former Gov. Sarah Palin has been kicked around mercilessly by those who oppose her political views. Everything from her family to her wardrobe has been endlessly criticized.
She arrived in Tehran the day after Neda Soltani was shot dead in the streets, a murder that added fuel to the most heated days of recent Iranian protests.
You might know him as the frontman for The Starting Line, but Gainesville is about to get a new picture of Kenneth Vasoli.
Drivers can expect traffic delays across central Gainesville to end no earlier than September 2011, according to a state official.
I don't envy David Letterman. Putting together a top 10 list can be fairly difficult.
After a marked absence from a May meeting to address the closure of Shands at AGH, Shands CEO Timothy Goldfarb addressed concerns about the future of community health care at a special Wednesday meeting.
UF President Bernie Machen's proposed changes to the festivities surrounding the UF-Georgia football game in Jacksonville - including a ban on the sale of liquor shots - are getting some heat from Student Government, including Student Body President Jordan Johnson.
Mediums offering messages from lost loved ones, acupuncture physicians touting instant acupressure facelifts and licensed therapists administering shoulder massages will all be available under one roof this Saturday.
If you do anything this summer, go to a music festival. The summer's music festivals are kicking off soon, and they are competing to have the biggest little bands, host the greenest event and to all in all be the one festival that will be worth your time and money. Who will win this winner-take-all fight? No one knows yet, but these shows are sure to be the most blogged and bragged about events of the summer.
Gainesville is the cradle of startup bands. As new bands pop up left and right, there inevitably comes a point, at which they must drift on. After the diplomas have been handed, the career pressures start to pile on, bands are left with three choices: stay put, break up or leave the nest.
Solutions by The State News
