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Train like a Gator: Former football player offers online fitness

By Samantha Pollack | Feb. 11, 2015

Students can now work out like a Gator.

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World-renowned cellist to perform at UF Friday

By Dana Hatchett | Feb. 11, 2015

Maya Beiser has played the cello with the world’s top symphonies. She’s performed in Carnegie Hall and a sold-out show in Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival.

Zo Bernardeau performs "Gravity," a song Bernardeau wrote after Bernardeau’s best friend's suicide in 2013.

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Suicide awareness vigil focuses on how to help

By Nicole Gomez | Feb. 11, 2015

Experts, musicians and survivors joined to discuss experiences with suicide and ways to prevent it Wednesday night.

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Santa Fe Student Senate struggles to meet quorum again

By Hunter Williamson | Feb. 11, 2015

Santa Fe College Student Senate struggled to reach and keep enough senators present to conduct business during Wednesday’s meeting.

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Senate meeting’s dramatic end sign of stiff competition

Feb. 11, 2015

Student Government seems more prone to crises and spectacles than it’s ever been in recent memory. Goings-on in SG have always had a flair for the dramatic, but previous incidents have been the doing of apparently individual actors or have stemmed from power plays conceived out of sight.

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New IFAS program aims to help North Florida farmers secure their futures

By JORDAN MCPHERSON | Feb. 10, 2015

UF is reaching out to Florida’s agricultural roots.

Chris Abeleda, second from left, poses with his father, brother and mother. The 21-year-old UF psychology junior was released from the hospital on Tuesday after being admitted for a bone marrow transplant to treat his Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

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UF student released from hospital after bone marrow transplant

By Alyssa Fisher | Feb. 10, 2015

Chris Abeleda woke up around lunchtime Tuesday to news that he was being released from the hospital.

Sean Parker (right), a 20-year-old UF economics sophomore, joins the rest of a tour group viewing the Infinity Hall construction site Tuesday afternoon. A student enrolled in the Innovation Academy, Parker said he was interested in the possibility of living in Infinity Hall next fall.

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Infinity Hall begins holding tours for future residents

By Nicolette Hoffman | Feb. 10, 2015

Prospective Infinity Hall residents accessorized with blue construction hats got a sneak peek of UF’s newest housing facility Tuesday.

Senator Yareliz Mendez-Zamora (left), representing District C, announces her disaffiliation from Swamp Party to an independent. “There are things that can no longer be ignored in these senate chambers,” Mendez-Zamora said, “and I believe that by changing my affiliation to the independent coalition I can truly represent 100 percent of the student body.” Senate President and Swamp candidate for Student Body President, Joseph Michaels, looks on.

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18 Senate members drop party affiliation, form new coalition

By Ariana Figueroa | Feb. 10, 2015

A heavy silence fell over the Senate chambers at Tuesday night’s UF Student Senate meeting when Sen. Michael Christ announced the formation of an independent Senate coalition.

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UF Office of Sustainability to introduce new GROW initiative

By Ariana Brasman | Feb. 10, 2015

The UF Office of Sustainability is expanding by planning a new resource to help UF departments become more environmentally conscious.

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Lilly Pulitzer brand to hold events on campus to recruit for jobs

By Zoe Sessums | Feb. 10, 2015

UF is about to look lovely in Lilly.

Canadian electronic music duo Zeds Dead performs Sept. 1 at Forum. The electronic dance music industry is under fire after the multi-day Electric Zoo Festival was shut down following two suspected drug overdoses that same day.

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Ongoing college EDM culture ranking includes UF at third

By Moriah Gaynor | Feb. 10, 2015

UF is highly ranked for its sports, academics, research and now for its electronic dance music scene.

Daymond John, branding expert, speaks about entrepreneurship to a full crowd at the Phillips Center of Performing Arts on Monday. The cast member on ABC's "Shark Tank" was brought to UF by the UF Black Student Union and ACCENT Speaker's Bureau.

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‘Shark Tank’ star, entrepreneur shares advice, success story

By James McLaughlin | Feb. 9, 2015

A crowd of UF students cheered and laughed at stories and entrepreneurial advice shared by a self-made fashion designer and TV star Monday evening in the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.