Grads prep for foreign reporting
By STEVE JOHNSON | July 15, 2009UF journalism students may face more than just hiring freezes when they graduate.
UF journalism students may face more than just hiring freezes when they graduate.
A Spanish red blend wine and a nine-generation chocolate butter rum cake will set the mood for the first Summer Wine Festival fundraiser.
UF President Bernie Machen's proposed changes to the festivities surrounding the UF-Georgia football game in Jacksonville - including a ban on the sale of liquor shots - are getting some heat from Student Government, including Student Body President Jordan Johnson.
Drivers can expect traffic delays across central Gainesville to end no earlier than September 2011, according to a state official.
On March 9, 2004, George Goens was awoken by a phone call at 3:50 a.m. telling him that his daughter, Betsy, was in trouble.
With bed bug season in full swing, UF said it/s time to turn up the heat.
A UF professor was announced Friday as the president-elect of the International Neuropsychological Society, a worldwide, nonprofit organization.
"Are you a freshman?" was the question of the afternoon Saturday on the Reitz Union north lawn.
A visit to Indonesia by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March has spurred UF President Bernie Machen and other university heads to travel there to foster relationships with their universities.
UF announced Tuesday it will receive a five-year $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to speed the pace at which scientific breakthroughs become incorporated into medical practices.
Surrounded by moths and butterflies, Student Government senators passed a bill allocating $60,000 for an upcoming bug exhibit at Tuesday's meeting, held in the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Ceremonial items, which were seized as illegally exported goods made from endangered species, are on display at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.
While temperatures in Gainesville consistently reach the mid-90s, one UF student is spending the summer in a much cooler climate.
A man is separated from his wife.
The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program will not raise funds to cover the tuition hikes coming this fall after undergoing several changes made by the Florida Legislature.
Enrolled in UF's College of Pharmacy? There's an app for that.
If UF officials have their way, it may be a little harder to get drunk at the next Florida-Georgia football showdown, which has been held in Jacksonville since 1933.
UF's Florida Alternative Breaks program, which recently won the 2009 National Alternative Break Program of the Year from Break Away, will have summer trips from Aug. 9 through Aug. 19 this year, and interested students need to have their applications in by July 13.
Students may have been able to hear a pin drop in the Reitz Union during Summer A, but things are picking up, with an event scheduled nearly every day of Summer B.