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Pictured is the CSP-ISEM, one of the computer systems that will go up on a NASA mission to the International Space Station.

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UF students help build computer for upcoming NASA missions

By Ali Eckerle | Feb. 15, 2015

For a group of UF students, work is actually rocket science.

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UF named 7th best public college of 2015 by The Business Journals

By Priscilla Osorio | Feb. 15, 2015

UF is lucky No. 7.

Ricky Brockway, a 21-year-old independent musician, sings in front of Library West on Divestment Day, an event put on by I.D.E.A.S of UF. His solo performance goes by the title "Moose".

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UF students, guest speakers rally in support of Global Divestment Day

By Patricia Rosario | Feb. 15, 2015

The cry heard around the world Friday was “divestment!”

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Baby Gators excited to take on UF as the class of 2019

By Alyssa Fisher | Feb. 15, 2015

Friday the 13th was a lucky day for 13,667 students.

Callie Pitman, 26-year-old UF alumna, does a Gator chomp while she waits for her first skydiving trip when she was 20.

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UF alumna enters jet-setter contest, hopes to be youngest woman to travel world

By Ansley Pentz | Feb. 13, 2015

Callie Pitman doesn’t have a bucket list.

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LGBTQ+ community fights for pronoun control, gender equality

By Cyanne Dunn | Feb. 12, 2015

While the legality of same-sex marriage is spreading across the nation, some LGBTQ+ activists are concerned the success of the fight for marriage equality will shift attention from the remaining struggle for equal rights.

Access Party executive candidates Kevin Doan, Joselin Padron-Rasines and Nicholas Carre answer questions from the audience at an elections platform forum sponsored by the Asian American Student Union on Thursday.

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Access Party addresses AASU at first of a few SG debates

By Ariana Figueroa | Feb. 12, 2015

The first debate of this election season wasn’t a debate. It was a forum featuring Access Party’s executive candidates.

Bobby Walsh (left), a 25-year-old UF law student, poses for a picture while dressed as Cupid at the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center open house in the Law library Thursday.

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UF law student takes cupid tradition to ninja competition

By Zee Kristic | Feb. 12, 2015

Cupid crashed an event at the UF Levin College of Law’s library Thursday, draped in a pale pink toga and accessorized with feathery, white wings.

A worker walks through the construction site of The Agency, located on the first floor of Weimer Hall, on Thursday afternoon.

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The Agency starts doing business before opening its doors

By Jasmine Melendez | Feb. 12, 2015

The doors to UF’s newest communications firm may not be open yet, but students are making do by doing business elsewhere.

Leah Warwick, a 21-year-old UF sociology senior, laughs while she watches members of Phi Mu Alpha, a music fraternity, perform a song for her. “I wasn’t expecting it,” Warwick said. “It’s cheesy in a good way.”

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UF students share the love on Valentine's Day, donate to charity

By Kendall Prior | Feb. 12, 2015

Valentine’s Day isn’t all superficial.

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Millions of years of love: Date night with a dino

By Marcella Tortorici | Feb. 12, 2015

Students who find themselves dateless this Valentine’s Day can make plans with a 67-million-year-old dinosaur.

Marston Science Library visitors walk by the entrance to Starbucks on the first floor Wednesday. The Starbucks on the ground floor of Marston will open Monday.

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New Starbucks opens in Marston Science Library on Monday

By Veronica Garcia | Feb. 12, 2015

Loyal Marston Science Library dwellers will soon have coffee at their fingertips.

Kevin McAllister, 52, was driving shortly after 2 p.m. in a silver Toyota Corolla with his friend, Delzora Ward, when he blacked out while turning onto Gale Lemerand Drive from Stadium Road. He crashed into a 1,200-pound concrete picnic table in front of Gator Dining.

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Man blacks out, crashes car into Gator Dining picnic table

By EMILY COCHRANE< | Feb. 12, 2015

A Gainesville man lost control of his car and smashed into a table outside of Gator Corner Dining Center on Thursday afternoon, leaving a 1,200-pound concrete picnic table in rubble.

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Motorcycle-riding UF faculty member injured after on campus crash with student-driven car

By EMILY COCHRANE< | Feb. 12, 2015

UF professor Brady Tripp was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital on Thursday morning after an SUV hit his motorcycle.

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UF CLAS to host open student forums in search for new dean

By Alyssa Fisher | Feb. 11, 2015

There are three finalists in the search for a new dean for UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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Student summit focuses on passing online voter registration

By Olivia Vega | Feb. 11, 2015

As voter registration for the upcoming city election comes to a close Monday, some are questioning the efficiency of Florida’s system.

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Potential Irish heritage trip, similar to Birthright, proposed

By Paige Levin | Feb. 11, 2015

Rebecca Birkholz wishes she had her mother’s maiden name of O’Keefe to further her connection to her Irish roots.

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Train like a Gator: Former football player offers online fitness

By Samantha Pollack | Feb. 11, 2015

Students can now work out like a Gator.

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World-renowned cellist to perform at UF Friday

By Dana Hatchett | Feb. 11, 2015

Maya Beiser has played the cello with the world’s top symphonies. She’s performed in Carnegie Hall and a sold-out show in Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival.

Zo Bernardeau performs "Gravity," a song Bernardeau wrote after Bernardeau’s best friend's suicide in 2013.

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Suicide awareness vigil focuses on how to help

By Nicole Gomez | Feb. 11, 2015

Experts, musicians and survivors joined to discuss experiences with suicide and ways to prevent it Wednesday night.