About 10 people attended the Student Senate meeting in support of a referendum that asks students if they want to rename the Reitz Union after Virgil Hawkins, an African-American man who was denied entrance to UF in 1949.
Akito Kawahara, an assistant curator at the McGuire Center of Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, received the one-year grant to do field research in Central America to investigate the tobacco hornworm and relatives.
Despite the daunting nature of starting a business, two UF alumnae have taken the plunge to create their own startups. One launched her business this month, and another is celebrating one year running a successful website.
Chamber singers in the Concert Choir will headline the 17th annual Encuentro Coral de Musica Colombiana in Buga, Colombia, from Oct. 16 to Oct. 21. The noncompetitive international choral festival will feature about 25 choirs from six countries — and UF’s is the first North American choir to be invited.
Joe: When the sun rises in Gainesville this Saturday, everything will be a little bit brighter.
Diego Aguilar, 43, and the volunteers were part of dozens of friends and family who searched the woods near Cabana Beach Apartments and State Road 121 on Monday for Christian Aguilar.
A small kitchen fire on a stove led to students living in Beaty Towers being evacuated late Monday night.
Muschamp introduced the catch phrase “Man down, man up” after Florida’s game against Texas A&M, and the words have never been more relevant.
The Harrell Professional Development Assessment Center, part of the UF College of Medicine, uses standardized patients to let medical students practice everything from reading vital signs to performing prostate exams.
Will Muschamp isn’t putting much stock in the Gators’ latest win, and neither should you.
The Bob Graham Center for Public Service, with the help of other civic-minded students, is attempting to change that today, National Voter Registration Day. The center will host its Swing the State: Voter Registration Roundup event from noon to 5 p.m. at the Pugh Hall Ocora.
Andre Debose has disappeared.
By nature, Havana Solaun is a calm person.
Entering last weekend, Allie Will was the last UF freshman to win her first three singles matches, doing so in 2009.
A pile of damp checks and cash sat on the ground on the parking lot. Hallie Peterson, a 19-year-old Santa Fe College nursing sophomore, scooped up the $2,655 bundle Sept. 18 and immediately started looking for its owners.
Some UF researchers have challenged diabetes patients to sum up their disease in five snapshots.
The UF International Center will host its Fall Study Abroad Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday on the Reitz Union Colonnade.
The new Graduate Research for Art Development studios, also known as GRADhaus studios, will officially open to the public at 7:30 p.m. Friday during Artwalk Gainesville. GRADhaus, which will be open for visitors at least once a semester, will be christened with a champagne toast.
The University Auditorium was filled with attendees for Accent Speakers’ Bureau “The Great Weed Debate: Heads vs. Feds” event. The debate featured veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent Bob Stutman and High Times editor Steve Hager.
Christian Aguilar, an 18-year-old biomedical engineering freshman from Miami, was last seen at about 6 p.m. Thursday after he was dropped off in a parking lot on the 4900 block of Northwest 13th Street, according to a GPD news release. Aguilar’s friends and family have not seen or heard from him since his disappearance.
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