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Sister Hazel performs tonight

For rock group Sister Hazel’s guitarist and vocalist Drew Copeland, taking the stage at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is not just another gig.


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Romney's son to visit UF

Josh Romney will be speaking at 6 p.m. Friday in Room 270 of Weil Hall. He’s planning to rally grassroots Mitt Romney supporters, said Katy Melchiorre, chairwoman of the UF College Republicans.


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UF lab experiment disproves 30-year rule of quantum physics

In an international collaboration, scientists used a superconductor, magnets and a series of refrigerators to measure the atomic spin of subatomic particles called bosons as they transitioned into the Bose-glass phase, said Neil Sullivan, a UF physics professor and director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory High B/T Facility.


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Fair to offer volunteerism, awareness opportunities to students

The UF Center for Leadership and Service’s Fall Volunteer Organization Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. The event is designed to provide groups with a venue where they can distribute information about their projects and offer students ways to volunteer, according to the center’s website.


City Commissioner Todd Chase, center, speaks with John Wayne Mishoe, left, and Stephen Belser, right, of JWM Engineering LLC after a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the completion of the solar panel system installed in the Continuum apartments.
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Downtown housing is now solar-powered

The UF graduate student, faculty and staff housing complex received a 250-kilowatt solar panel system earlier this fall from Gainesville Regional Utilities worth about $800,000, said John Wayne Mishoe, an emeritus professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and one of the project’s head engineers.


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UF Pharmacy dean steps down

William H. Riffee and two other Health and Science Center deans have announced plans to leave their positions in the upcoming year. Kathleen Ann Long, of the College of Nursing, and Glen Hoffsis, of the College of Veterinary Medicine, will step down. Riffee said he will vacate his position June 30, 2013.


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Panel discusses gender issues

Sjoberg, an associate professor of political science, was one of two panelists who led “Politics of Privilege,” an intimate discussion with 15 people held in the Atrium at Ustler Hall Tuesday night. The discussion was sponsored by UF LGBT Affairs and co-sponsored by the UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.


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