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Hasan Minhaj, a 33-year-old comedian known for his time as a correspondent on “The Daily Show” and his Netflix show “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj,” answers questions Thursday at the  Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Around 1,750 attendees watched Minhaj answer questions asked by UF School of Journalism and Communications professor Mike Foley.

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Saudi Arabia, car crashes and printers: Comedian Hasan Minaj speaks at UF

By Mikayla Carroll | Apr. 11, 2019

There was a sold-out crowd of more than 1,700

Pictures of Sophia Visent, a 22-year-old environmental management fourth year, are pinned on a tree Wednesday night as friends and family mourn her death with a candlelight vigil.

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‘I will always have a place in my heart for you’: Vigil held for 22-year-old UF student

By Lakshmi Gomez | Apr. 11, 2019

More than 100 people attended the event in honor of Sophia Visent

EDM artist RL Grime and Lost Kings will perform on April 24 at UF.

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RL Grime and Lost Kings to perform at Flavet Field

By Lakshmi Gomez | Apr. 9, 2019

It will be the last concert of the semester

The construction of the Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence is projected to cost more than $70 million, which is $20 million more than its projected cost. The building is located between the Reitz Union and Weimer Hall, and it will house study rooms and labs.

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UF College of Engineering construction delayed and is over original budget

By Rachelle Westervelt | Apr. 8, 2019

The building is now scheduled to be finished in Spring 2020

Sophia Visent, a 22-year-old UF environmental management senior, died by suicide last week. Her friends will hold a vigil to remember her 9 p.m. Wednesday on the Plaza of the Americas. A GoFundMe page is raising money for funeral expenses.

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Friends to honor 22-year-old UF student with vigil

By Hannah Beatty | Apr. 7, 2019

A GoFundMe page is raising money for funeral expenses

George A. Smathers Libraries is holding the first annual meme contest in the Facebook group Swampy UF memes for top ten public teens for students to submit their best library-related content for a chance to win various prizes.

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'This is fine.' Smathers Libraries hosts first social media meme contest

By Ana Escalante | Apr. 7, 2019

The first place winner will receive a $25 gift card

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New traditions planned for Class of 2019’s graduation

By Ana Escalante | Apr. 7, 2019

The commencement ceremony will be held in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

Anna-Lisa Paul, a UF horticultural sciences research professor, discussed how to be a better martian gardener with plants on Mars at TEDxUF. “Plants truly enable us to colonize places we’ve never been before,” she said.

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‘Let’s redefine success by what matters’: TEDxUF holds annual conference

By Taylor Girtman | Apr. 7, 2019

10 speakers presented their ideas

UF’s Young Americans for Freedom gun rights banner hangs on Plaza of the Americas Saturday morning after being spray painted with the words “Go away” by an unknown vandalist.

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UF Young Americans for Freedom’s pro-gun banner vandalized

By Mikayla Carroll | Apr. 7, 2019

The vandalizer is still unknown

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley will speak at 6 p.m. on April 19 in the Buddy & Anne MacKay Auditorium in Pugh Hall.

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Historian and author Douglas Brinkley to speak at UF

By Emma Davis | Apr. 7, 2019

He is being paid $3,000

National Endowment for the Humanities chairman Jon Parrish Peede delivers his keynote speech in Smathers Library. Peede is the first sitting chairman to visit UF in more than 20 years.

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UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere celebrates 10-year anniversary

By Mikayla Carroll | Apr. 7, 2019

More than 150 UF students and faculty members attended

Tuan Nguyen, a 21-year-old biology junior, and Daniel Nguyen, a 22-year-old economics junior, attend a meeting in Little Hall Wednesday evening for the UF Vietnamese Students Organization. Both students said they joined the club their freshman year to form a better connection with their culture and meet new people.

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The past, present and future of UF’s Asian American community

By Tien Le | Apr. 4, 2019

Michelle Bui knows pork belly should be buttery, crispy and made with care. She has eaten it her whole life with her family.

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UF to create sexual misconduct student advisory board

By Kelly Hayes | Apr. 4, 2019

The board will consist of 10 voluntary positions

Eighteen runners partook in the first event of the UF chapter of Despite the Dark. The group’s goal is to encourage the conversation and activity of running safely at nigh

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UF students shine light on the safety of running at night

By Naomi Cruz | Apr. 4, 2019

Despite the Dark held its first event Thursday night

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Alachua County has second highest chlamydia rate in Florida

By Lina Ruiz | Apr. 4, 2019

Leon County, home of FSU, has the highest rate of cases

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Student Body President Ian Green and his broken promises to students

Apr. 4, 2019

“We found Ian Green does not come off as a leader and appears to speak only when spoken to. Moreover, he has a presence that is, to be frank, unimpressive and lackluster.”

About 100 people attended the “Take Back the Night: March and Rally to end Sexual Violence,” to fight sexual assault and stand up for survivors of it. The group marched from Plaza of the Americas toward 13th Street and down West University Avenue.

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UF students ‘Take Back the Night’ for sexual assault survivors

By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz | Apr. 4, 2019

About 100 people attended the rally

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UF SG senators raise allegations of misconduct, slander, corruption

By Hannah Beatty | Apr. 2, 2019

Heads buried in laptops and cell phones bolted upright when Senator Nikolas Bindi (Inspire, Liberal Arts and Sciences) called the UF Student Government Senate out on Tuesday night.

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Rupaul’s Drag Race Queens coming to UF Pride Awareness Month drag show

By Ana Escalante | Apr. 2, 2019

Gia Gunn, Soju, Ariel Versace and local drag queens will perform

Comedian Hasan Minhaj will speak at UF on April 11.

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Comedian Hasan Minhaj to speak at Phillips Center

By Kelly Hayes | Apr. 2, 2019

ACCENT will pay Minhaj $78,000