UF takes preventative measures, educates students to stop Zika
By Paige Fry | Aug. 21, 2016As the Zika virus has come to South Florida, UF is taking precautions and educating students through a new website.
As the Zika virus has come to South Florida, UF is taking precautions and educating students through a new website.
An incoming Gator has turned her high school project into a corporation for hospital patients.
In hopes of making a positive impact on the world, Breton Homewood joined the Peace Corps in 2012 and is now UF’s new the organization’s campus recruiter.
Last week, the A.H. Burnett Foundation donated a bronze alligator statue, designed by architect David Price, to be featured in the Library West Colonnade after renovations are complete.
Steve Spurrier was the first coach to call Florida Field The Swamp.
A group of Gainesville’s amateur musicians will showcase its musical talents after practicing throughout the summer.
Though the number of UF admissions applications rose by more than 1,000 since the last school year, the number of students accepted to the university went down.
Study finds people don’t know health benefits of mushrooms
In a public records request by the Alligator, University Police released surveillance videos from the Keys Residential Complex that led to the arrest of freshman football players Rick Wells and Tyrie Cleveland. The above video has been edited for brevity, and the unedited videos can be found below.
UF reached new heights in both technology licensing and donations this year, receiving $402 million in donations and submitting 122 licenses.
During Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting, the Student Senate unanimously approved nine bills that will put nine amendments to the constitution on the Spring 2017 ballot, including one for online voting.
An online cancer prevention course sponsored by the Florida Department of Health is struggling to enroll students.
Both supporters and opponents of medical marijuana agree there is a lot of work left to be done in Florida’s budding industry.
Extra Life Team Gainesville, an organization for gamers dedicated to raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network and UF Health Shands Hospital, is hosting a “Pokemon Go”-themed event for children this weekend.
Editor’s note: Though strides have been taken since the Alligator ran a two-part series in 1976 about calls for a more handicap-friendly campus, it seems there is still progress to be made.
Swamp Dance Fest, a four-week summer dance intensive offered at UF’s G-6 Studio, will end this week with performances developed throughout the program.
Aspiring bread-bakers, cheese-makers and beer-brewers will gather at the first Tampa Bay Cottage Industry Expo on Saturday.
Ransomware — viruses that steal computer files and hold them hostage for money — causes Americans to lose millions of dollars, and UF researchers are working on a solution.
Shortly after the UF executive branch announced a new Chick-fil-A expansion, a group of 11 UF graduate students sent an email to President Fuchs.
Sen. Macey Wilson (Fine Arts) and Sen. Max Stein (Graduate-01) objected to a bill about Student Government debates at Tuesday’s Senate meeting, causing the bill to come to a debate, then a vote.