Football championship draws prospective students
By LAUREN BAKER | Jan. 11, 2009UF admissions can expect to snag some more applicants in the coming year, if past championships are any indication.
UF admissions can expect to snag some more applicants in the coming year, if past championships are any indication.
Three days after the Gators' victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in Miami, the party was still on back home.
It wasn't until Friday morning when she was celebrating with her friends on University Avenue that Carolyn Martin realized she would be giving the first campus tour after the championship.
A new library for the Horticultural Sciences Department, comprised of materials from professors' personal collections, was unveiled Friday.
UF was not one of the six Florida schools named in The Princeton Review's list of the 100 Best Value Colleges for 2009, released Thursday.
The items that sit inside glass cases tell Cuba's story - a map of the island nation from 1606, a book of poetry from a slave who would become a famous intellectual, and even photos of a future UF professor who joined Fidel Castro's revolution.
The game was in Miami, but you wouldn't know it from the noise at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center during the BCS National Championship Game Thursday night.
It took some time and the threat of a $10 fine, but UF faculty are getting the hang of Florida's textbook affordability law.
UF President Bernie Machen is expanding efforts to further diversity among UF's faculty and student body.
UF researchers took advantage of Miami's BCS National Championship crowds this week to show off their new inventions.
Creative, bug-loving scientists will have the chance to win some money in the future thanks to a UF professor.
In line with international protests on the issue, the controversial attacks in the Gaza Strip have sparked reactions from UF students on both sides of the spectrum.
UF fans stuck in Gainesville for the BCS National Championship Game don't have to stay at home.
Ryan Bowen does not need a plane or car to travel from Los Angeles to the presidential inauguration.
You could drive to the DMV and wait countless hours in a long line to get your license renewed. Or you could stop by the ground floor of the Welcome Center at the Reitz Union.
Officials say UF students with their M.B.A.s can expect a profit double the cost of their degrees five years after graduating due in largely to networking.
UF announced Monday that Larry Arrington will be the interim senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources while UF searches for a permanent replacement for Jimmy Cheek, who was named chancellor of the University of Tennessee in October.
UF student Michelle Moses, 21, a fourth-year elementary education major, died while driving home to Mason, OH, a suburb of Cincinnati, over winter break.
A study released during winter break pointed to a gap in SAT scoring between college football and basketball players compared with their classmates' average, a trend that extended to UF's own football team.
UF's administrators are setting stricter expectations for classroom attendance as the football team plays its second national championship game in two years.