UF campus to ban tobacco
By THOMAS STEWART | Aug. 3, 2009In an effort to become healthier and cleaner, UF will ban tobacco on its main campus beginning in July, joining over 100 campuses across the U.S. that have already gone smoke free.
In an effort to become healthier and cleaner, UF will ban tobacco on its main campus beginning in July, joining over 100 campuses across the U.S. that have already gone smoke free.
UF will test its new emergency text messaging system Thursday, hoping to reach about 67,000 registered students, faculty and staff, said UF spokesman Steve Orlando.
The link between age and vision loss may be a thing of the past.
Fox's Sun Sports is about to teach UF students something new about their university - Gators do not wear "jorts."
Researchers have found that bacteria growing in the wood of sweet gum trees, also known as alligator wood, may improve the process of making biofuels.
At Camp Kesem, Brian Shelton goes by Cookie Monster.
A $15,000 grant from the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art will help the Harn Museum of Art commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in an exhibit set to debut in February.
A UF graduate student who was arrested in April for groping a woman in front of Library West after telling her he was removing a bug from her body will plead no contest on Friday.
Two UF professors received more than half a million dollars for research, and they're leaving it up to the students to do the legwork.
A UF professor arrested in January while trying to trade cocaine for sexual favors pleaded not guilty to the charges earlier this month.
An on-campus rape that was reported Thursday apparently occurred about two years ago.
A sworn complaint for stalking has been filed against the ex-boyfriend of a UF employee after he allegedly called the woman about 100 times Sunday night.
Beginning Monday, airtime on WUFT-FM, the UF-owned radio station that plays mainly classical music, will consist almost entirely of National Public Radio programming.
After heated debate, a bill granting online access to resumes and records of potential appointees was passed at Tuesday night/s Senate meeting.
The days of Santa Fe College renting UF facilities to accommodate its performing arts will soon be over.
There won't be a full moon Saturday, but guests can celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the first walk on the moon with marshmallow MoonPies.
The University Police Department is investigating a sexual battery that reportedly happened Thursday night on campus.
Most incubators at Shands at UF are occupied by newborns, but thanks to an $8.2 million grant, UF is building a different kind of incubator.
After the threat of an armed gunman on University of South Florida campus ended without harm Friday afternoon, UF said its response system is similar, adequate and improving.
UF/s year-long reign as the top party school in the nation ended abruptly at noon Monday, when it was announced that Penn State University had taken the infamous title.