The 18-year-old architecture freshman took four Advanced Placement classes in high school, ran both track and cross country and worked part time as a waiter. Yet, compared to his first three weeks in college, that was a piece of cake.
Obama stood in front of a crowd of about 3,000 adult and student spectators Saturday to speak about everything from education to health care. The speech was part of Obama’s two-day Florida tour to sway voters in the swing state.
Qualifying, which determines whether a candidate is eligible to be a student senator, continues today and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 284 of the Reitz Union.
About 100 Gainesville residents gathered Saturday to celebrate the reopening of the Boys & Girls Club of Alachua County’s Rotary Campus & Mentor Center.
Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion,” will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. The event is free and open to the public. It will also be streamed live at www.bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu.
From 4 p.m. to midnight, both rookie and expert gamers flocked to the Reitz Union Ballroom to participate in GatorLAN, a video game tournament hosted by Gator Gaming. About 800 people attended; at any point during the day, there were about 150 computers in the room, said Gator Gaming president Ed Fonseca.
Concannon will come to UF from the University of Virginia, where he currently serves as a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics. He is also the associate director of the Center for Public Health Genomics at UVA and has been an affiliate professor of immunology at the University of Washington.
About 150 Gator women of all ages met to celebrate football and fashion at a tailgating-themed expo hosted Friday by Gainesville Health & Fitness for Women.
Teach for America, an organization that recruits qualified graduates from more than 600 campuses to teach in low-income areas, ranked UF second overall of colleges contributing the most graduates in 2012, according to a press release.
The Florida Museum of Natural History partnered with Gainesville’s nonprofit Lubee Bat Conservancy to host the Year of the Bat Celebration.
A University Avenue student center will transform into a food and business center next year.
The new Reitz Union Board Entertainment Arts Committee will host its first event Monday.
When the Gators women’s golf team tees off this Sunday in Hanahan, S.C., in the 2012 Cougar Classic, it will be their first tournament under new Emily Bastel.
An Apple announcement scheduled for Wednesday has people across the nation — and UF’s campus — buzzing about possible new products.
The world’s only flying mammals are going to rise from the darkness at UF today.
UF’s first women’s nuclear engineering organization held its inaugural meeting Wednesday.
UF is the No. 1 party school in the nation, according to rankings released last week by Unigo, a college resource website.
As reggae music blared through the loudspeakers, Michael Espinosa’s workout class prepared to get sweaty.
The grand opening of the “Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine” exhibit attracted more than 200 people, including students and families, said Michele Tennant, bioinformatics librarian.
Florida offensive coordinator Brent Pease wants Jordan Reed to get more touches.
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