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UF freshman Christina Lynch, left, purchases a textbook at the UF Bookstore inside the Reitz Union on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2011.

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Secret Shoppers: UF students help to improve on-campus businesses

By Charlene Medders | Feb. 10, 2020

More than 100 student volunteers have participated in the program since 2016

Jim Grantham, right, tells stories about his floaty pen collection to evengoers during the 41st Collectors Day at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Collectors Day is the Museum’s longest running event and attracts regional collectors of a variety of objects such as potato mashers, model ships, pop-up books and trains, each year.

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New interactive exhibit open at Florida Museum of Natural History

By Bryanna Basilio | Feb. 10, 2020

The exhibit is open until Sept. 7

After explaining to Bee College 2018 attendees how to split beehives, Rob Horsburgh, 43, demonstrates the steps Friday, Oct. 14, 2018. The event was hosted by the UF IFAS Honey Bee Research and Extension Lab and offered a variety of classes on beekeeping.

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Beekeeping clinic to be offered to Alachua County residents

By Katelynn Joyner | Feb. 10, 2020

This will be the second clinic in year-long series of four.

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Alachua County names 2020 Teacher of the Year

By Hope Dean | Feb. 10, 2020

Kirk Tapley is among the youngest to win the award

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Australia study abroad programs to continue despite fires

By Gracie Johnson | Feb. 10, 2020

Visiting the country is the best way to get it back on its feet, experts say

Dees first used the chair's standing feature in a speech to UF alumni and administration

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UF student journalist receives advanced standing wheelchair

By AJ Bafer | Feb. 10, 2020

Drew Dees is using a power wheelchair to advance his career

Mitch Capps, a 22-year-old UF forest resources and conservation junior, poses with his mom.

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‘It’s a miracle:’ UF student’s condition steadily improves after fall from parking garage

By Sarah Mandile | Feb. 9, 2020

After a 60-foot fall, Mitch Capps continues to recover at UF Health Shands

Judges test quesadillas made by Eastside High in the NASA Astronaut Culinary Challenge.

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Eastside High hosts NASA Astronaut Culinary Challenge

Feb. 9, 2020

Three Florida teams competed in the competition

D. Ayoka Sowa-La and her husband, Nii Sowa-La, perform a drum libation, a spiritual ritual involving the pouring of drink as an offering to deities, during the Alachua County lynching memorial service at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church Friday evening.

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Alachua County honors lynching victims nearly 100 years later

By Irfan Kovankaya | Feb. 9, 2020

More than 200 people gathered for the ceremony

Denise Griffiths, a UF English language and literature senior, died Wednesday after succumbing to brain and spinal injuries. She was 21. Griffiths was a spoken word poet and aspiring rapper.

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More than 300 attend UF student’s funeral

By Chasity Maynard | Feb. 9, 2020

Griffiths passed away Jan. 29

Brennen Zinckgraf, a 21-year-old UF environmental engineering senior and recreational climber, works his way up an oak branch on Turlington Plaza on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, to examine the resurrection fern on the tree for a research project.

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Gainesville recognized as a “tree city of the world”

By Michelle Holder | Feb. 9, 2020

Only 59 other cities received the award

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Distance runners shine at Camel City Invitational

By Declan Walsh | Feb. 9, 2020

Coming off of a dominating performance by Florida’s sprinting corps last week at the Razorback Invitational, the distance runners made their mark by breaking several personal records and earning a few nationally ranked times

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Several Gators pick up season-best times at Auburn

By Ainslie Lee | Feb. 9, 2020

Over the course of three days, select athletes from Florida’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams made their way to Auburn, Alabama, to compete in Auburn’s Last Chance Invitational. The event, which had no team scoring, provided an additional opportunity for competitors to post qualifying times for a wide slate of events.

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Rollercoaster opening weekend ends with four wins for Florida

By Payton Titus | Feb. 9, 2020

If the USF-Rawlings Invitational were a rollercoaster, Saturday would have been the sudden, heart-wrenching drop for the Gators.

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UF holds off Purdue on the road

By Zachary Huber | Feb. 9, 2020

Purdue made the Gators earn their doubles point on Sunday morning.

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Heller stomps Buffaloes with her late-game heroics

By Christian Ortega | Feb. 9, 2020

Shannon Kavanagh made an attempt to drive towards Colorado goalkeeper, Julia Lisella. Tied at one with roughly 20 minutes remaining in the game’s first half, Florida’s junior midfielder was looking to give her team its first lead of the game.