Peace Alliance forms, meets next week
By Erin Green | Jan. 13, 2008A student branch of The Peace Alliance, a nonpartisan national organization promoting peace, was formed recently to include students in Gainesville.
A student branch of The Peace Alliance, a nonpartisan national organization promoting peace, was formed recently to include students in Gainesville.
A UF team's research could soon double the number of known planets outside our solar system.
The sweet smell of flowers and fancy food floated through the air. Future brides bustled from table to table to explore wedding options. A few men stood around - some looked excited, some looked bored.
Bernard Machen, the father of UF President Bernie Machen, died in Gainesville Wednesday after a long illness. He was 94.
Following state funding cuts, UF students may have to take the summer off whether they like it or not.
After closing for the holidays, the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium at SFCC will reopen Friday night, but admission is no longer free.
An upcoming speech at UF from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who spent eight years in prison for assisting more than 130 suicides, has spurred about 1,000 e-mails to UF's administration in the past few days.
After trudging through a Mexican rainforest, visiting his grandparents' birthplace in Greece and studying calligraphy in Japan, Christopher Matthews had charged almost ,5,000 on his Visa credit card.
Flu season has officially arrived on UF's campus.
Following Tuesday's New Hampshire presidential primaries, UF student groups supporting both the Democrats and the Republicans expressed satisfaction with the Democratic winner - but for different reasons.
Get ready to rumble.
The Student Government program that extended Library West's operating hours during final exams could become a finals-week fixture if UF's library administration is satisfied with the results.
As the final beam of the Shands at UF Cancer Hospital ascended into the air with the help of a powerful crane, the hopes of those searching for a cure lifted a little, too.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist appointed two new members to UF's highest governing body, the Board of Trustees, on Wednesday.
If low-carb dieting, exercising daily or watching online lectures doesn't seem to be working as your New Year's resolution, perhaps a more artistic approach will stick.
I'm not a particularly religious man, thought Robert Zieger as he made the long walk from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to his car. It's just a Baptist preacher, and I need to pick up my wife anyway, he said to himself.
Kelly Bailey doesn't make phone calls or wait in line to speak to her academic adviser. After all, they're friends - on Facebook.
The UF student groups involved in a campus free-speech controversy that got national attention met last month to discuss the issue and to put it behind them.
Students could have the chance to cap the size of UF Student Senate close to its current amount if senators approve a constitutional amendment proposed Tuesday night.
The Committee on a Civil, Safe and Open Environment, created by UF President Machen after the September Tasering of UF student Andrew Meyer, has released a draft of recommendations to improve UF's public forum policies.