UF grad pursues pop star dream in Gainesville
By Morgan Watkins | Dec. 1, 2010Sueli Cavalcanti, a graduate of UF’s musical theater program, is recording an album in Gainesville in hopes of becoming a pop singer.
Sueli Cavalcanti, a graduate of UF’s musical theater program, is recording an album in Gainesville in hopes of becoming a pop singer.
Ian Elsner puts safety first: No fire indoors, and new members are not allowed to play with knives. Elsner is the president of Objects in Motion, the official UF juggling club. The club will hold its first solo performance, “Objects in Motion Live! and in 3D” Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. Objects in Motion has more than 50 active members, with an average of 30 participants at each activity, he said. Contact jugglers balance an acrylic ball on their bodies and allow it to roll across their arms, shoulders and hands.
This week, members of the UF crew team will have the endurance, the equipment and the motivation to row the distance. They’ll only be missing one thing — water.
Gators who want to assess their sexual health can receive free testing today.
After seven months in office, the Student Government executive officials gave the annual State of the Campus address Tuesday night.
UF’s Office of Off Campus Life is encouraging students to take advantage of free massages, yoga and board games to take their minds off looming exams.
Local residents herded into a small auditorium Tuesday night to speak up for the bison and horses in Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park.
In Fine Arts C, Room 310, 240 photos are taken in 180 minutes.
Staff Sgt. John Reiners was a Florida Gators fan. If you wanted to find him, you would just have to look for his blue Gators baseball cap.
UF officials unveiled plans Monday for Innovation Square, a development around SW Second Avenue that will feature 1 million square feet of retail, residential and restaurant space.
While many UF and Santa Fe students traveled back to their hometowns for the holidays, an estimated 12,000 people found their way into the Stephen C. O’Connell Center in search of a homemade holiday gift at the 2010 Craft Festival.
If after watching the chaos, disorganization and utter futility of Steve Addazio’s offense against Florida State University, Urban Meyer does not conclude that a change must be made in the team’s leadership, then it’s time for Jeremy Foley to break out the Rolodex and look for a new head football coach.
This October, seven UF students were selected to receive grants from the Florida Campus Compact College Access Program within AmeriCorps.
Two amateur tarot readers are offering free readings to students on Turlington Plaza.
A new study by UF researchers suggests that a common antibacterial agent could cause birth defects.
When Lucianna Grasso learned that about 90 percent of the students at the A. Quinn Jones Center were eligible for free or reduced lunch, she knew she wanted to do something to help the students and their families.
UF scholarship recipients will have the opportunity to officially become a part of the university’s recorded history.
The coaches want 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups and 100 squats. Then they want 100 inverted rows.
There is a coral reef in the Marston Science Library, and it’s made entirely out of crocheted scarves.
The Hub and the Reitz Union shut down today at 3 p.m., and some UF students who are far away from home may have to face the Thanksgiving holiday all alone.