Thomas Emmel first stumbled upon the 2.25-inch-wide butterfly in March 1959 as a 17-year-old on an expedition in Mexico. The specimen was later stashed away in one of his collection drawers and forgotten about.
Six-legged beasts are tearing up under the bark of century-old trees in South Florida, causing the trees to collapse and die.
Amy Carson is a teacher, but her classroom doesn’t have rows of desks facing a chalkboard or central air conditioning. She believes nature is the ideal classroom.
After a 2015 The Washington Post article reported the plunging numbers of UF’s black students, the former vice president for Student Affairs commissioned the Black Student Affairs Taskforce — a group of staff, faculty and students — to research how to improve the campus experience for black students.
UF wants to increase its number of energy-efficient buildings.
When Jim Jefferies looked out at the crowd of about 950 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, it looked a little different than he expected.
Cracking sounds pierced the air in an otherwise calm Carleton Auditorium on Thursday night.
Jarrod Rodriguez wanted to know why hecklers drowning out Richard Spencer’s speech at the Phillips Center for Performing Arts weren’t asked to leave.
The forwarded email from the UF president came with a request.
Within seconds, a spinning log sent Drew Hendry plunging into the water beneath him — ruining his chances at completing the “American Ninja Warrior” obstacle course.
Student Government senators unanimously supported increasing funding for the Disability Resource Center at a Senate meeting Tuesday night.
Three candidates for UF’s first chief diversity officer will visit campus to meet with faculty, staff and students before the end of the semester.
Paul Hawken said the Earth has never needed as much of our help as it does now.
Sofia Padron pinned a green ribbon to a cork board on Turlington Plaza Monday. She was thinking of her close friends who have struggled with mental illness.
Rani Mahmoudi’s father came to Jacksonville, Florida, not knowing a word of English in the 1970s to escape persecution from the Syrian government.
The UF Student Government Senate Judiciary Committee supported an initiative Sunday to increase funding for the Disability Resource Center.
Sara Lind wants to help foster children because her father lived in a foster home when he was a baby.
UF College of Medicine’s department of orthopedics and rehabilitation redesigned a program to lower costs of joint replacement surgery like knee and hip replacement surgeries.
At first, scientists did not know what was killing off what is said to be the rarest tree species in North America — the Torreya taxifolia.
A UF student received a research grant from the Weed Science Society of America for her work with invasive species.
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