When Brooke Emory was six years old, doctors found a brain tumor on her optic nerve, the cause behind her recurring migraines. Rather than having the tumor removed via surgery, which would likely cause blindness, she underwent 18 months of chemotherapy.
Her driver would take her no further; he felt crossing the sandy riverbed that marked the border of Chad and Sudan, nations of central Africa, was for the foolhardy.
UF President Bernie Machen stressed the importance of raising the academic standards for the Bright Futures Scholarship and implementing new state taxes for education during a town hall forum hosted by IRHA, the Inter-Residence Hall Association, for on-campus residents Thursday night.
UF would lay off about 100 more staff and faculty under budget cut proposals described this week, bringing the number of layoffs UF could see in the next round of cuts to about 250.
It wasn't the smell of feces and urine from the overflowing toilets or the 95-degree ovenlike surroundings that bothered Paul Harris the most, but the power of fear.
About 600 students will stand for a cause this weekend in the O'Connell Center.
At 11 p.m., registered nurse Alexis Lynch gulps down a Dr Pepper and some animal crackers to give her energy for the 16th hour of her shift on the pediatrics floor at Shands at UF. She agreed to work late even despite being scheduled to leave at 7 p.m. because there were not enough nurses to cover the shift.
Persistence is the word a UF law professor lives by, and he said it earned him a seat on a Florida appointing commission.
It's not often that meetings designed to address college budget cuts have audience members feeling more like they're in the middle of a teen musical.
Right after sunset, 14 students kneeled in the direction of Mecca on the floor of Touchdown Terrace at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Thursday night to take part in prayer before Jamillah Karim took the podium to speak to a crowd of about 40 people.
Two editors with about 65 years of combined journalism experience took the stage at Pugh Hall Wednesday night to describe the media's influence on President Barack Obama's campaign and the Internet's impact on print journalism.
Two cars were stolen and at least two others were damaged on campus Thursday, according to University Police Department reports.
With fall registration in full swing this week, some students in the UF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are upset by the resignation of their only adviser following an investigation into two student privacy violations.
Despite rainy weather and change of plans, the ninth annual Pride Awareness Month began with laughter on Wednesday night.
An Ocala man was issued a notice to appear before a judge for a misdemeanor possession of marijuana after reportedly trying get a 19-year-old UF student to engage in oral sex.
After debating, discussing and altering a bill for about three weeks, which will hold Student Government's two lobbyists more accountable, senators finally voted and passed it unanimously.
The 20 students enrolled in UF's award-winning Documentary Institute would be the last to graduate before its program ceases to exist under a $909,000 budget cut proposal unveiled last week.
Organs of a different type were on display outside UF's McKnight Brain Institute Monday night.
UF would lay off about 140 faculty and staff under the 10-percent budget proposals that have been released by its colleges so far.
Two faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be laid off June 30 to make way for the reinstatement of two assistant professors last week, according to Paul D'Anieri, dean of the college.
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