On June 7, UF’s Student Government will vote on changes to its constitution.
With a new program, ordering from most Gator Dining locations can be done through an app before users reach their destinations.
When people think of “Jeopardy,” some think of encyclopedia-like knowledge and books of trivia. For Wilcley Lima, he saw numbers and patterns. In March, the IT director at UF’s Business Services Division played as a contestant on the show. He’s been sworn to secrecy for two months, but the episode will air May 30.
Flying lounge chairs and falling trees welcomed visiting families to UF last Friday when tour groups experienced a damaging storm. Three campus tour groups and the orientation session, Preview, were caught in a rainstorm with high-speed winds that ravished the Student Recreation & Fitness Center’s pool area just after 11 a.m.
UF and Elsevier, a journal publishing company, are collaborating to allow more direct access to UF researchers’ final publications. The dean of university libraries, Judy Russell, conversed with different groups on campus about getting more content into UF’s institutional repository, or IR@UF, where researchers submit their articles.
About 500 adults and 260 children attended Saturday’s inaugural event for Bug Week at the Florida Museum of Natural History, which will continue online through Friday. About 40 families used bug-related hints and navigated the Florida Museum during a scavenger hunt.
Members of Gatorloop share more than just a team name. The 55-member group is mostly comprised of engineering undergraduates with fond memories of tearing things apart and seeing how they tick.
Some students use their Florida Bright Futures Scholarships in the Fall and Spring. Bright Futures is offered to high school students in the state who display high ACT and SAT test scores and work a certain number of community service hours.
In a lawsuit between Florida A&M University and a university student, Florida public universities have signed a brief in support of the university’s position that Student Government at the university level is “not real Florida government.”
A Santa Fe College sophomore and self-pro- claimed equestrian might become Chrome magazine’s next top model. Jeremy White’s love for horses led him to apply, and the magazine chose him as one of the top five male finalists for the American Paint Horse Association’s international modeling contest.
To Yilam Sartorio, the U.S. feels more like home than any other country she’s performed in. The 33-year-old opera singer from Cuba has toured globally, playing sold-out shows in countries like France and Mexico. Now, she and her husband, opera singer Ramon Centeno, are visiting UF as part of their first-ever U.S. tour.
Equal parts haunted mansion and murder mystery, the Florida Museum of Natural History celebrated the opening of its Wicked Plants Exhibit on Saturday. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 15, 2017.
Amber Peelz was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2012. She spent a week in the Cancer Center at UF Health Shands Hospital and received three surgeries. Peelz said caring staff helped her through the process, holding her hand as she was put under anesthesia before a surgery that would give her another chance at life.
Florida may have won its weekend series against Vanderbilt, but it lost its best hitter in the process.
The Gainesville Regional Transit System changes its schedule in accordance with the collegiate semesters, making the Summer semester more limited for bus riders. Many routes, such as the 118, 121 and Later Gator routes D and F, go on vacation and will not run during the Summer semester, wrote Chip Skinner, the marketing and communications supervisor for RTS, in an email.
After a two-week break, UF’s Reitz Union Board Entertainment will resume its regular GatorNights event from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Reitz Union on Friday. Members of the student-run organization needed time to focus on final exams and graduation, Maggie Sutton, a graduate assistant for RUB, wrote in an email.
Cannabix Technologies, a technology company based in Canada, enlisted the help of several UF scientists to develop a device that can detect THC on a person’s breath.
Out of 800 universities, Times Higher Education ranked UF as No. 120 this year in its World University Rankings list.
On April 22, about three weeks after Manuel Vasquez pleaded no contest to a charge of video voyeurism, the former UF Department of Religion chairman submitted his resignation.
The National Wetlands Awards has honored over 200 wetland scientists since 1989, and Ramesh Reddy – a UF faculty member for 37 years – will be recognized for science research.
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