UF switches student insurance providers
By KATIE FOGARTY | Apr. 3, 2008After a year and a half of research and debate, the student health insurance committee at UF has agreed on a new insurance plan, which is set to begin in August.
After a year and a half of research and debate, the student health insurance committee at UF has agreed on a new insurance plan, which is set to begin in August.
About 650 UF students will participate in non-stop bop this weekend for Dance Marathon, a fundraiser that benefits the Children's Miracle Network at Shands Children's Hospital at UF.
Rental rates for on-campus residences will increase by $65 per semester this fall.
UF students could get a chance to vote on whether a 5 percent technology fee is implemented, according to a bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate's Committee on Higher Education Appropriations.
A shrill cry pierced the air of a hospital room in Zambia as a young woman fell to her knees, clutching a limp bundle wrapped in a white sheet.
UF and Morehouse College are teaming up to encourage college students to be more active in their communities on today's 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
UF's Student Senate president said plans to revise Student Body statutes and the replacement-senator process are underway following questions surrounding another senator's residence.
Construction to add five classrooms to the Florida Gym began Tuesday.
Police are looking for a man who reportedly attacked a woman early Wednesday morning in the Constans Theatre, located adjacent to the Reitz Union.
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Oshinsky spoke at UF Wednesday night about the historical and cultural effects that polio, which hasn't been seen in the U.S. in two decades, has had on the 20th century.
UF research projects were given more than $3 million in grants from the Florida Legislature, the Board of Governors announced on Wednesday.
As part of National Donate Life Month, members of a student organization that encourages organ donation will host a free concert tonight at the Orange & Brew.
Officials from UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said the college would be unable to make the 6 percent budget cut UF President Bernie Machen asked each college to prepare for earlier this semester.
A UF student senator representing off-campus students is doing so from a few hundred miles away - at least technically.
One year ago today, Gainesville Police Department Lt. Corey Dahlem took to the streets to protect revelers of UF's men's basketball national championship. In the early hours of April 3, 2007, a drunken driver hit Dahlem, and he died the next day.
UF Student Senate President Kellie Dale said she would not leave her post despite a student senator's request for her immediate resignation on Tuesday night.
Diablo Cody, writer of "Juno" and former stripper, will speak at UF on Tuesday night.
A UF student won more than $25,000 worth of prizes, including a trip to Singapore, on Tuesday's episode of "The Price is Right."
Prominent Israeli college professor and sociologist Eva Etzioni-Halevy lectured to more than 100 students Monday night on the split between religious and secular Jews.
Many UF freshmen have traded in wrinkled campus maps and wide eyes for crisp resumes and interview appointments in efforts to make it to the top of the heap come graduation day.