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UF requires health insurance, but do students want that?

By Anna Wilder | Jan. 16, 2020

Student health insurance is $2,500 annually

UF President Kent Fuchs and Wageningen University and Research Executive Board President Louise Fresco planted a 9-foot live oak tree Thursday for Florida Arbor Day. This is part of an initiative to plant 100 “UniversiTREEs” across the world.

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UF plants tree with world’s top agricultural university at Florida Arbor Day ceremony

By AJ Bafer | Jan. 16, 2020

The act was a collaboration with Wageningen University and Research

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Students, professors unfamiliar with sexual assault prevention program

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 16, 2020

Green Dot Gators trains bystanders how to intervene

Jamie Douglas, an 18-year-old UF telecommunication sophomore, chants in solidarity with Iranian and Iraqi people at an anti-war demonstration on Turlington Plaza Wednesday afternoon.

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UF community protests war with Iran on Turlington Plaza

By Meghan McGlone | Jan. 16, 2020

About 100 students huddled in a crowd, clapping and chanting “No war with Iran” while surrounding Naz Hussein. An Iraqi flag covered her back, slightly fluttering in the wind.

Worth $375000, director of the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium James Albury often says that the Chronos Projector is worth more than his house. This projector is the first of its kind to set the exact time and location of constellations.

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Kika Silva Pla Planetarium: a home for all astronomy lovers

By Katie Delk | Jan. 15, 2020

Director James Albury offers guided shows year-round

Kimberly Guilfoyle, a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, speaks Thursday evening in University Auditorium. Guilfoyle spoke about her upbringing, her relationship with the Trump family and her political philosophy.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle announced as National Chair of Trump reelection committee

By Alyssa Feliciano | Jan. 15, 2020

Guilfoyle spoke at UF in October with Donald Trump, Jr.

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UF responds to faculty tied to foreign research meddling

By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 14, 2020

Four faculty members left the university

A student passerby stops to honor the victims of a Ukrainian plane crash in Iran at a vigil put on by the Iranian Student Association in Turlington Plaza Tuesday afternoon.

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Two UF students lose loved ones in Ukrainian plane crash in Iran

By Grethel Aguila | Jan. 14, 2020

More than 40 students and community members attended a memorial

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Netflix premieres new Aaron Hernandez special

By Payton Titus | Jan. 14, 2020

Netflix’s original documentary series, “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,” premiered today on the streaming platform.

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UF libraries announce plan to expand newspaper digitization

By Kaelyn Cassidy | Jan. 14, 2020

New project will include content from the Virgin Islands and focus on ethnic newspapers in Florida

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UF Online ranked fourth in U.S. News 2020 Best Online Bachelor’s Programs

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 14, 2020

The program rose from fifth in 2019

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UF researchers create heart attack prediction assessment

By Christopher S. Cann | Jan. 14, 2020

The assessment can predict users’ 10-year risk of heart attack or stroke

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How does UF’s student debt compare nationally?

By Alyssa Feliciano | Jan. 12, 2020

The national student loan debt has doubled in the last decade

Students of UF professor Edward Phlips taking cyanobacteria samples out of a lake of an algal bloom.

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UF Health conducts study to determine if algal blooms threaten human health

By AJ Bafer | Jan. 12, 2020

The study was granted $130,000 by the Florida Department of Health.

The UF Small Animal Hospital discovered that Nancy, a sulcata tortoise, is allergic to orchardgrass hay.

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UF documents first tortoise with allergies

By Anna Wilder | Jan. 10, 2020

She is allergic to orchardgrass hay

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What is the UF Board of Trustees?

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 9, 2020

Its decisions impact students every day, a spokesman said

After explaining to Bee College 2018 attendees how to split beehives, Rob Horsburgh, 43, demonstrates the steps Friday, Oct. 14, 2018. The event was hosted by the UF IFAS Honey Bee Research and Extension Lab and offered a variety of classes on beekeeping.

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What's all the buzz about? UF introduces new beekeeping class

By Marlowe Starling | Jan. 9, 2020

Entomology and nematology department offers new online Beekeeping II class

Abby Farah, a 20-year-old nutrition junior, tours the new La Casita space on Wednesday. “I think it is fantastic that the La Casita space is open to us, especially for this class," Farah said. "I think it’s going to be really important for us to appreciate the space that the university has provided and that so many students have worked so incredibly hard for."

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La Casita hosts class on Latinx Studies – the first class the institute has ever held

By Kaelyn Cassidy | Jan. 9, 2020

There are a limited number of seats left for the credited class

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See a fire on campus? Don’t be alarmed by it.

By Stephany Matat | Jan. 8, 2020

The land hasn’t been burned since May 2018

A Puerto Rican flag hangs within the rubble, after it was placed there where store owners and family help remove supplies from Ely Mer Mar hardware store, which partially collapsed after an earthquake struck Guanica, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, killing one man, injuring others and collapsing buildings in the southern part of the island. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

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Puerto Rican UF students affected, fearful of earthquake

By Meghan McGlone | Jan. 8, 2020

UF students worry for their home and family’s safety