Two distinguished professors from the Florida Museum of Natural History and UF received the 2016 Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London last Tuesday for outstanding advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, according to a press release from the Florida Museum.
UF recently announced a veterinary senior won the national Bayer Excellence in Communication Award, becoming the first UF student to win the award.
The Florida Museum of Natural History will invite guests to dive into its sea turtle exhibit in celebration of World Sea Turtle Day on Saturday.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man Tuesday afternoon after they said he stole a Canon digital camera and a custom Huffy bicycle.
Eleven UF students will perform “Puffs; or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic,” a parody of a famous wizard story, this weekend.
At a crossroads in northern Uganda, locals and travelers are met by 28 names on a memorial.
On June 7, UF’s Student Government will vote on changes to its constitution.
With a new program, ordering from most Gator Dining locations can be done through an app before users reach their destinations.
When people think of “Jeopardy,” some think of encyclopedia-like knowledge and books of trivia. For Wilcley Lima, he saw numbers and patterns. In March, the IT director at UF’s Business Services Division played as a contestant on the show. He’s been sworn to secrecy for two months, but the episode will air May 30.
Flying lounge chairs and falling trees welcomed visiting families to UF last Friday when tour groups experienced a damaging storm. Three campus tour groups and the orientation session, Preview, were caught in a rainstorm with high-speed winds that ravished the Student Recreation & Fitness Center’s pool area just after 11 a.m.
UF researcher Jamie Kim is developing a wearable technology called iMotion, a combination of glasses and a wristband that aims to improve tourism experiences, according to a press release.
UF and Elsevier, a journal publishing company, are collaborating to allow more direct access to UF researchers’ final publications. The dean of university libraries, Judy Russell, conversed with different groups on campus about getting more content into UF’s institutional repository, or IR@UF, where researchers submit their articles.
About 500 adults and 260 children attended Saturday’s inaugural event for Bug Week at the Florida Museum of Natural History, which will continue online through Friday. About 40 families used bug-related hints and navigated the Florida Museum during a scavenger hunt.
Members of Gatorloop share more than just a team name. The 55-member group is mostly comprised of engineering undergraduates with fond memories of tearing things apart and seeing how they tick.
Florida’s subtropical climate, coupled with its proclivity for sunshine, has traditionally been an attraction for snowbirds. Now the Nile crocodile is staking its claim to call Florida home.
Some students use their Florida Bright Futures Scholarships in the Fall and Spring. Bright Futures is offered to high school students in the state who display high ACT and SAT test scores and work a certain number of community service hours.
In a lawsuit between Florida A&M University and a university student, Florida public universities have signed a brief in support of the university’s position that Student Government at the university level is “not real Florida government.”
St. Petersburg Police are searching for the man who repeatedly punched a UF student. Zachary Taylor will now take medical leave from a Summer class after an unknown man attacked him at the Del Mar Gastro Lounge, he wrote in an email.
On May 9, Secretary of Education John King sent a letter to America’s colleges and universities and asked them to remove questions about criminal history from early stages of the admissions process.
A Santa Fe College sophomore and self-pro- claimed equestrian might become Chrome magazine’s next top model. Jeremy White’s love for horses led him to apply, and the magazine chose him as one of the top five male finalists for the American Paint Horse Association’s international modeling contest.
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