Standing and smiling in the middle of the court, Brooke Austin was swarmed by eight screaming Gators. After a jumping huddle with the team and assistant coaches, high fives came from every direction as “It’s great to be a Florida Gator” echoed through Georgia’s indoor tennis facility.
The Gators women’s golf team found itself within striking distance of the cutoff after Sunday’s second round of play at the NCAA Championships in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
As JJ Schwarz rumbled over to first base and recorded the final out of Florida’s regular season finale, the players in UF’s dugout couldn’t help but erupt with emotion.
Everyone remembers Chris Chiozza’s buzzer-beating floater from behind the three-point line to send the Gators to the Elite Eight over Wisconsin.
Entering the season ranked No. 11, the Florida men’s tennis team had high expectations for 2017.
An individual SEC champion, five team wins and four more top-five finishes. The Florida men’s golf team had all of the keys it needed to have a successful 2016-17 campaign.
On May 13, a UF team came in second place and won $5,000 at the MuniMod hack-athon competition in Orlando.
To our readers, who never go unappreciated: As I’m sure you’re all aware, in life, change is inevitable. Every second of every day, our world is changing. The U.S., the state of Florida, the city of Gainesville and UF: all changing. For more than 100 years, we at the Independent Florida Alligator have prided ourselves in the strong connection we’ve made with the community by printing stories that you can pluck out of an orange box and hold in your hands on any given weekday in the Fall and Spring. Whether it’s delivering breaking news or colorful feature stories, we have always been there for you. That is something that will not change and never will. However, the way that community members, UF students and faculty receive and read the news is changing, and we recognize this. The pace of our world continues to quicken, and the speed at which our community consumes news is increasing as well. To better accommodate your needs, dear reader, we must make some relatively dramatic changes. And so, although the Alligator will always deliver news to our readers when they need it most, we will only print our physical paper three times a week during the Fall and Spring semesters: Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
UF’s Black Affairs will initiate two new programs in the Fall dedicated to strengthening UF’s black community — P.A.A.C.T. and the Black Cultural Living Learning Community.
Local organizations in Gainesville are selling a limited number of custom prints depicting historic businesses, restaurants and landmarks as a way to raise money for nonprofit groups in the area.
More than 200 sixth-grade students in Gainesville visited NASA to present rockets they constructed in a middle-school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) project to professional engineers.
As a resource for emotional expression and healing, a group of local community members promoted mental health awareness by painting a mural on the 34th Street Wall.
Kelly McPherson felt a sense of relief Friday night. The 10-acre wildfire that erupted in Levy Prairie, one of her field sites, was contained the same day it sparked up.
Two UF engineering professors have been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to receive millions of dollars of funding to study how the brain learns.
Every Monday morning, Ibram Kendi parks his car in the orange decal parking lot for UF faculty, just north of the O’Connell Center.
I don’t mean to say the sayings included in this article are things that female, nonbinary or trans people have never said, but I think it’s important to identify the condescending language that men use to establish masculinity. “Masculine” and “feminine” are two words that have become problematic in the gender spectrum, but I’ll tackle that issue in another 600 words or so. For now, I’ll discuss the type of behavior that makes some cisgender, heterosexual men feel stronger in this incredibly heteronormative world. Behold: mansplaining.
Former President Barack Obama had high praise for many of the traditional adversaries of the U.S. during his eight years in office. From Cuba to Iran, Obama tried to mend past differences and bring former enemies to the negotiating table through generous rhetoric. Obama singled out one country above all others in his praise: China.
The other side of a pointed gun was the last thing a 19-year-old Williston resident and UF employee expected to see on his trip to Gainesville for a doctor’s appointment Thursday.
A mandarin hybrid developed by UF researchers is winning the battle against citrus greening.
Fewer migratory birds are able to keep up with global temperature increase, something observed by two researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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