Sydney Look was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 16 years old. The condition causes her pancreas to produce little to no insulin, depriving her of the hormone that regulates her blood glucose levels.
Each year, students at four-year institutions pay an average of more than $1,200 on textbooks they may not even use. A program at UF is lowering this cost — and unnecessary purchases — one orange apple badge at a time.Affordable UF, an initiative that was piloted this Summer and will officially be launched this Fall, shows students which courses require materials that cost $20 or less per credit hour. Classes that meet this requirement get an orange-colored apple badge on their textbook requirement page.
In an emergency incident, key Santa Fe College staff would meet in the emergency operations center, located inside the Santa Fe Police building, to discuss a plan of action.
The UF Department of Astronomy will host a Mars viewing event at the Campus Teaching Observatory at 9:30 p.m. Friday.
On a rainy Monday, Corbin Stevens was operating the blood mobile across the street from Turlington Plaza at UF. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., he and his co-worker drew blood from only seven donors.
After being closed all of Summer B, the UF Gator Career Closet will reopen in the renovated center at the start of Fall.
On July 24, six students at the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences received individual fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
With the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh for justice of the Supreme Court earlier this month, people are speculating that Roe v. Wade might be overturned.
Jacob Atem doesn’t know when his birthday is. As someone who was born in a place with no hospital in South Sudan, he said every day is his birthday.
Former UF professor emeritus and renowned expert of the monarch butterfly Lincoln Brower died July 17 at the age of 86.
In 2016, the Florida Board of Governors passed legislation requiring public universities to form centralized compliance offices and ethics training programs for all employees.
A deafening applause erupted after Jeremiah Tattersall said UF’s permanent preeminence demands permanent employees.
Six UF football players face student conduct violations for an on-campus conflict near the Keys Residential Complex that occurred May 28.
Back in 2014, Gainesville City Attorney Nicolle Shalley wanted to know if the Reitz Union was considered a government-owned community center or a convention center for the purposes of early voting.
Citizens of Gainesville came together last Thursday to bring awareness to the high price and lack of accessibility of the morning after pill, or MAP, on campus.
Justin Watkins, an incoming freshman and 2018 four-star recruit of the UF football team, has been suspended from all activities after being arrested by University Police on Tuesday for domestic battery and false imprisonment.
Hemp became legal to grow in the state of Florida last year, and UF researchers are now set to launch a pilot program to help the state develop the industry.
For Madison Skipper, getting hit with a tuition late fee is the difference between cooking at home and going to the food pantry.
Late night gym-goers may have to turn elsewhere after a reduction in nighttime hours at Southwest Recreation Center.
When she was about 13, Gainesville Police Officer Dontonya Smith joined the Police Explorers as a part of Post 917, the local section in Gainesville. About 32 years later, the Florida Association of Police Explorers named her the 2018 “Explorer Advisor of the Year.”
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