UF copes with loss of state matching funds programs
By TRAVIS PILLOW | May 26, 2008UF officials are working to cope with the loss of two state-funded gift matching programs eliminated by the Florida Legislature in the most recent state budget.
UF officials are working to cope with the loss of two state-funded gift matching programs eliminated by the Florida Legislature in the most recent state budget.
UF's Student Health Care Center received an award from the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology for its reaction to a measles outbreak in Gainesville during spring 2007.
Three Alligator alumni earned spots on a newswire service's list of America's top 100 college journalists.
A wave of gods and goddesses has flooded the Harn Museum of Art in a new exhibit of works from across the sea.
UF will host the 2008 National Student Steel Bridge Competition this weekend at the O'Connell Center.
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, the UF Student Senate unanimously voted to spend $80,000 to fund construction of a veterans memorial on campus.
Six Shands Healthcare facilities in Gainesville earned the most prestigious national honor for excellence in nursing last week. Five of the facilities received the honor for the second time.
Sunny Ferrero has a passion for theme parks and knows there are other UF students who share her interest.
Construction on Pony Field will soon provide a temporary parking lot for UF commuters who normally park across the street.
Harsh winds couldn't extinguish the flames blazing from a couple hundred candlewicks at a Friday night vigil held to honor victims of an earthquake that hit the Sichuan Province of China on May 12.
It starts with a roar.
A art studio in the Reitz Union has packed up its paints and pottery in preparation for a move to the Reitz Union basement to save money in light of budget cuts.
UF students returned for summer classes to a campus littered with chain-link fences and abuzz with the sounds of demolition.
A dispute at a UF Student Senate committee meeting Sunday left the Gator Party and the Orange and Blue Party pointing fingers over job responsibility.
Budget cuts are costing UF something more valuable than $47 million - the university's prominent faculty and staff members.
Members of UF's Faculty Senate called for greater input over decisions about faculty layoffs and department shake-ups during the Senate's Thursday meeting.
A new position, the first of its kind in the United States, will soon come to the UF College of Journalism and Communications.
Student senators unanimously passed a resolution at Tuesday's meeting requesting that the UF administration consider more voices when making decisions about budget cuts.
UF's Board of Trustees approved President Bernie Machen's plans to shrink the university's budget by $47 million on Wednesday morning, resulting in about 130 layoffs.
UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences will face the largest monetary cuts of all UF colleges and administrative units next year, when it will lose $9.5 million and about 110 faculty and staff positions.