Museum fossil dig looking for volunteers
By KRISTIN NORTON | Oct. 18, 2007If you haven't signed up for the Tapir Challenge yet, the Florida Museum of Natural History has a bone to pick with you.
If you haven't signed up for the Tapir Challenge yet, the Florida Museum of Natural History has a bone to pick with you.
UF scientists have discovered how HIV evolves throughout a person's lifetime into AIDS.
Whether dealing with snobbish house guests or secretly mocking a college professor for overstressing his pronunciation of Nicaragua, memoirist David Sedaris finds humor in the tiniest details.
After spending time in the village of Sand Sloot, South Africa, a UF student is taking action and raising money to help the students of the poverty stricken village.
At first glance, it doesn't look like a robot.
UF's chapter of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity is prohibited from philanthropies, intramurals and socials this semester following charges of underage drinking and marijuana possession at an unauthorized party in August.
As shoots of blue bamboo wave outside his office window, Don Goodman sits at his desk and pets his daughter's pug puppy with his left arm.
Football is a main distraction for many UF students during the fall semester, but last week, another traditional fall diversion arrived to tempt students from their books.
Josh Ghogan was shot in the right eye while rabbit hunting about 20 years ago.
It takes more than national titles to make Gators fans bleed orange and blue, according to researchers who believe the sense of community in college sports keeps fans loyal to their teams.
UF's newest research institute is located about 80 miles away from campus on the southern outskirts of St. Augustine in Marineland, an incorporated town.
Editor's Note: This is the final story in a three-part series on students who completed military service in the Middle East. The first stories ran Tuesday and Wednesday.
This year, Dance Marathon participants will quit moving and grooving five hours earlier.
Student protesters from Gainesville will join forces with activists from Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest the Iraq war.
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a three-part series on students who completed military service in the Middle East. Part Three will run Thursday.
Editor's Note: This is the first story in a three-part series on students who completed military service in the Middle East. Part Two will run Wednesday.
(Scott Robertson / Alligator Staff) An excavator machine that fell into a large pit behind the Mechanical and Aerospace Building B this weekend is retrieved by two winch-wielding tow trucks. Recent rainfall caused the earth beneath the excavator to give way, allowing the machine to slip into the pit and sink into the mud. The tow trucks, along with several workers, were successfully able to retrieve the machine.
Fall semester marks the final stretch of a four-and-a-half-year journey for Adrianna Rodriguez, a UF senior who will graduate in December. On graduation day, she will walk across the stage, shake the hands of beaming administrators and collect diplomas in history and journalism.
Glittery Greek letters and mascots waved in the air as sorority girls danced and chanted beneath them in preparation for the 2007 Sigma Phi Epsilon Surf Frenzy on Thursday night.
(Jeremiah Stanley / Alligator) Hongqiang Zhai, an electrical engineering alumnus, plays table tennis at the Florida Gym on Wednesday evening. The games were part of a Table Tennis Club meeting.