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Friday, December 19, 2025

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Former UF PhD student Soon Hye Yang, 34, pushes her 3-year-old daughter, Isu Yoon, on a tricycle at the Baby Gator daycare center on Nov. 5, 2015. Baby Gator’s request for additional funding was denied, and without it, student parents like Yang may be cut from the program.

NEWS | CAMPUS

A family affair

By Ansley Pentz | Nov. 9, 2015

Isu Yoon likes pink sidewalk chalk, and she cries when her friends try to snatch it from her.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF receives military-friendly designation

By Alexandra Fernandez | Nov. 9, 2015

When U.S. Marine Corps veteran Brett Surles transferred to UF this Fall, he was worried about making friends.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Andy Grammer to perform on Flavet Field

By Alexandra Fernandez | Nov. 9, 2015

Andy Grammer will sing to students to keep their heads up Nov. 20.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

UF Student Government honors student veterans

By Caitlin Ostroff | Nov. 9, 2015

Danny Makowsky never used his gas mask for anything but U.S. Air Force drills.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF professor doesn’t horse around

By Spencer Harvey | Nov. 9, 2015

Margo Macpherson loved going to horseback-riding camps as a child.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF study: women in leadership benefit from being assertive

By Paisley Papineau | Nov. 9, 2015

A UF professor found women who are more assertive are thought to be stronger leaders.

NEWS | SFC

3,000 theater fans to gather at conference

By Gabrielle Newman | Nov. 9, 2015

Brittany Bennett has never auditioned for a panel of judges.

Rodeo clowns Hollywood Harris and his son, Boogerhead, perform a skit in which Harris pulled boogerhead out of a suitcase. Now 22, Boogerhead goes by the name Brinson James the Entertainer. He has been performing with his dad since he was 2.

NEWS | FEATURES

Adventures of father-son rodeo clowns

By Brooke Baitinger | Nov. 8, 2015

The crowds can’t stop screaming for him.

Standing on Mt. Everest, the group of climbers for Everest to End Duchenne, led by Tanya Dreher, post the Hope-Memory flag with the names of 750 boys and girls who had or have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a terminal, degenerative disorder without a cure.

NEWS | CAMPUS

On Everest, their voices were heard

By Martin Vassolo | Nov. 8, 2015

Timothy Bird-Lopez died in his mother’s arms.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Research Roundup: 11/09/2015

Nov. 8, 2015

Compound created to combat resistant bacteria

NEWS | CAMPUS

New Department of Neurology chairman values patient care

By Caitlin Ostroff | Nov. 8, 2015

Michael Okun will lead UF’s Department of Neurology.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF adds new Homecoming tradition, students enjoy festival

By Lexie Bajalia | Nov. 8, 2015

College students came to the Homecoming festival for the food.

Karl Kaufmann poses with his daughters Kelli, left, 20, and Kaitlyn, 16, in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium during Gator Growl on Nov. 9, 2013. The 59-year-old has been the announcer for Gator Growl since 1980.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Father and daughter share Gator Growl tradition

By Caitlin Ostroff | Nov. 5, 2015

Kelli Kaufmann is a junior, but she’s been a part of the UF Gator Growl tradition since childhood.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF institute celebrates room’s grand opening

By Monica Andrade | Nov. 5, 2015

UF informatics and data science researchers now have a new place to call home.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Group advocates for disabilities

By Katelyn Newberg | Nov. 5, 2015

A new organization on campus is giving students with disabilities a voice.

Ben Judkins conducts the Gator Band during UF’s 38-10 win against Ole Miss on Oct. 3, 2015, at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The drum major has directed the 350-student band, along with two other drum majors, for two years.

NEWS | CAMPUS

The sound of the Gator Nation

By Alyssa Fisher | Nov. 5, 2015

Four years later, Ben Judkins still can’t describe the tunnel.

Nathalie Canate, a 19-year-old UF architecture sophomore, walks to her Design 3 class in the architecture building Nov. 4, 2015. This week the UF College of Design, Construction and Planning, located in the architecture building, celebrates its 90th birthday.

NEWS | CAMPUS

They built it together: UF College of Design, Construction and Planning celebrates 90 years

By Meryl Kornfield | Nov. 4, 2015

Electronic calculators were invented when Tina Gurucharri was studying landscape architecture at UF.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Gamers break out controllers for Homecoming

By Martin Vassolo | Nov. 4, 2015

As football players duke it out in the Swamp on Saturday, gamers of a different sort will battle in the air-conditioned Reitz Union Ballroom.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Research project promotes flexibility, includes Twister

By Alena Poulin | Nov. 4, 2015

Students will bend, twist and stretch from dot to dot at a UF group’s first Twister event.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF College of the Arts expands program

By Kendaline Watt | Nov. 4, 2015

The College of the Arts is allowing students to study medicine and music without getting degrees in those fields.

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