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Profile: What does the Fuchs say?
By Alyssa Fisher | Dec. 9, 2014Next semester, don’t be surprised to see Kent Fuchs on the way to class.
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UF Starbucks see final exam rush
By Kelsie Ozanne | Dec. 9, 2014Starbucks and on-campus vendors are keeping up with the long lines of students hoping to re-energize after pulling all-nighters.
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UF engineering students to demonstrate their robots today
By Ariana Figueroa | Dec. 9, 2014About a dozen robots built by UF students will put their gears in motion today for UF robot demo day.
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UF organization takes stand against stigma
By Alexia Fernandez | Dec. 9, 2014Three UF students are taking a stand on mental illness by creating a nonprofit called Stronger than Stigma.
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Poli sci students visit SG, suggest improvements
By Ariana Figueroa | Dec. 9, 2014Tacky sweaters and Santa costumes donned by UF student senators signaled the beginning of the holiday season, but seven students suited up to talk politics.
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SFC to stop paying its SG
By Hunter Williamson | Dec. 9, 2014Santa Fe College administration announced Friday it would no longer offer job employment to Student Government leaders. Though the eight leaders still in office will receive wages until the close of Spring semester, the college immediately stopped paying the organization’s student directors last week.
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Gator gymnastics alumna becomes Cirque performer
By Alyssa Fisher | Dec. 8, 2014An Olympian, a Gator alumna and now an Amazonian ninja, 23-year-old gymnast Marissa King has tumbled into her dream job.
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UF CLAS dean search begins
By Alexia Fernandez | Dec. 8, 2014The hunt for a new dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ has kicked off, taking the search nationwide.
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Where to find Christmas light displays
By Patrick Pinak | Dec. 8, 2014Holiday Lights at North Florida Regional Medical Center Duck Pond
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Human ancestors could process alcohol 10 million years ago
By Lesley Wright | Dec. 8, 2014With one of America’s biggest drinking holidays approaching on New Years Eve, new research shows humans may have developed the ability to process alcohol nearly 10 million years ago.
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Student documentaries to be shown
By Leanna Scachetti | Dec. 7, 2014Tivoli Silas spent an entire week in the Reitz Union basement this semester.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
New law dean search will cost UF $100K
By Beatrice Dupuy | Dec. 7, 2014The Levin College of Law dean search is back after President Emeritus Bernie Machen called off the search last Spring.
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Students, community stage die-in for black lives on Turlington
By Alyssa Fisher | Dec. 7, 2014Silently, about 200 people collapsed on top of one another on the middle of Turlington Plaza. They lay lifelessly for four and a half minutes.
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
Board of Trustees names 12 faculty for preeminence
By Alexia Fernandez | Dec. 7, 2014afernandez@alligator.org
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UF researchers evaluate land-mine detecting technology
By Chloe Stradinger | Dec. 7, 2014When Bob Barnas, 66, of High Springs, served in Vietnam, a member of his company stepped on a land mine and was killed instantly.
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UF group to host green summit
By Tori Wienke | Dec. 7, 2014A UF student government organization will host a consumerism and sustainability summit Wednesday.
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UF geologists to study effects of climate change with NASA
By Grace Hudgins | Dec. 7, 2014Two UF geologists are working with NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to study the effects of climate change on the dunes at Cape Canaveral, where NASA houses its launch equipment.
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College of Medicine funding increased
By Reba Liddy | Dec. 4, 2014For the fifth year in a row, UF’s College of Medicine increased its National Institutes of Health funding.
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Have the next big idea? Warrington College of Business to host contest
By Livia Agyekum | Dec. 4, 2014Students eager to cash in on their ideas can sign up for a contest held by the Warrington College of Business Administration by Dec. 15.
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UF students graduate on time more than other students around the US
By Laura Vazquez | Dec. 4, 2014While UF students are graduating on time, a new study found that college students around the country are not.
