Students to 'QUIT' smoking with medication, coaching
By KATIE FOGARTY | Feb. 12, 2008For students trying to quit smoking, UF is offering a new program to help them kick the habit.
For students trying to quit smoking, UF is offering a new program to help them kick the habit.
Theatre Strike Force, UF's improvisation troupe, plans to auction off dates with some members of its Relay For Life team Wednesday night.
Although Congress recently denounced a report that downplayed the risk of a terrorist attack on college campuses' nuclear research reactors, some UF scientists disagree with lawmakers.
A Tennessee college's Web-based communication with students, following a tornado that devastated its campus Tuesday, attracted the attention of UF officials searching for new ways to keep students informed during emergencies.
An online survey posted Monday asks UF students to respond to a potential "green" fee that would charge 50 cents per credit hour each semester to further UF's environmental efforts.
The Gator Party is the first to release its platform for the Student Government spring elections scheduled for Feb. 26 and 27.
The University Police Department has updated its Taser-use policy to make it more clear. Still, the Tasering of UF student Andrew Meyer would have been appropriate under the updated policy, a UPD official said Monday.
Laughter flooded the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom Monday night as a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim attorney poked fun at the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Judaism and Islam.
In response to a new state privacy law that became effective Jan. 1, UF Vice President of Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin sent all students an e-mail Monday to raise awareness about the safety of releasing personal information.
Five UF professors are among 800 people in the country who have been named Fulbright scholars for 2007-2008, allowing them to teach and study in foreign countries, according to a UF news release.
Two state leaders are bouncing around ideas to change the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program. Both plans would provide incentives for students studying technology and health-related fields.
A man was arrested on campus early Friday afternoon after witnesses said they saw him pushing and hitting his fiancee, a UF student, outside the Food Science and Human Nutrition building.
UF may have to admit fewer transfer students next fall to meet the Florida Board of Governors' newly imposed enrollment limits.
A recent Reader's Digest study that warns parents about nationwide campus crime reveals that UF ranks No. 234 out of 285 institutions with high crime ratings.
With a booming voice that echoed off the walls in the dimly lit auditorium, Justin McCarthy described the theory that has ostracized him from many other prominent scholars.
Florida politicians and UF administrators gathered Saturday for the dedication of Pugh Hall - UF's new center for languages, public service and oral history - and celebrated a surprise donation from the building's namesake.
A local homeless shelter will soon see a surge in donations after a UF fraternity's weekend fundraiser.
A firebomb left at the front door of a University of California at Los Angeles professor by the Animal Liberation Front on Tuesday sent shockwaves through America's research community and raised concern at UF.
The dean of UF's College of Medicine congratulated Florida's two new medical schools Thursday for receiving preliminary national accreditation, but he expressed concern for UF's medical education amid a state budget crisis.
Students could soon have an alternative to buying textbooks from university bookstores if a nonprofit, online bookstore and a state representative get their way.