The Obama administration said Friday it will grant a two-year protection from deportation to undocumented students who were brought to the United States before the age of 16 and allow them to apply for work permits.
The 21-year-old environmental science and political science senior officially entered the Florida Senate race on June 8 as the Democratic candidate for District 7.
Whitten, 4, was one of more than 200 people who participated in the World Sea Turtle Day Scavenger Hunt. The event, sponsored by the Sea Turtle Conservancy, was held at the Florida Museum of Natural History from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
At about 4 p.m., Gainesville Police Department and GFR responded to a call about a two-car accident at the 700 block of Northeast Eighth Avenue.
The UF Meat Processing Center sells retail meat out of the Department of Animal Sciences, 2250 Shealy Drive, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday.
The cure for a type of cancer might just be in everybody’s gut.
On Tuesday the UF Student Ticket Office announced its plan to extend the lottery registration deadline from June 7 to June 22.
A 9-foot gator attacked James Albert Wimmer on Monday in a small creek inside the Sweetwater Branch section of Southeast 16th Avenue, also known as Tent City.
The University Minority Mentor Program is a transition program within Multicultural Diversity and Affairs. The program helps first-year undergraduate students in navigating the academic and social aspects of the university.
The program, TurboVote, also alerts students by sending email and text reminders about election deadlines. Students can then request absentee ballots from their local election authorities.
The original Activity and Service Fee budget, which was $17,588,432, was passed in 2011. Since then, fee predictions changed and money could be reallocated. The administrative fee that SG pays to UF was less than expected, Student Body Treasurer Juan Rodriguez said.
In the 2011-2012 season, Willis’ first year as the UF policy debate director, his squad jumped an unprecedented 62 places in the Cross Examination Debate Association national ranking. The team entered the season ranked No. 68 out of 117 teams and ended the season ranked No. 6.
After 21 years owning and operating Spin Cycle, it was time for a change.
Rhonda Faehn is thrilled to see the bulldozers and construction workers tearing apart the north end of the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.
There was nothing junior about what the third-year Gators accomplished Sunday.
Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees members questioned the leadership abilities of the university’s president Thursday.
The UF Institute on Aging received a $5.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging to continue research on physical disability in older adults.
Fanfares and Fireworks, a community-oriented event celebrating the Fourth of July, will return to UF after a year-long hiatus due to lack of funding.
Diane McFarlin spent most of her adult life on the road between Sarasota and Gainesville, but for now she’s here to stay.
After a year of campaigning to raise UF tuition to the market rate, President Bernie Machen decided to lower the tuition increase request for the upcoming year from 15 percent to 9 percent.
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