Investing in Innovation, or i3, grant program, started in the fall and expands UF's preexisting Florida Master Teacher Initiative into 20 high-poverty schools in Miami-Dade County.
Cameron "Scooter" Magruder posted his video "Stuff Gator Fans Say" to YouTube at about noon on Sunday. It already has more than 30,000 views.
Paul F. Favini, interim director of the UF School of Theatre and Dance, died Sunday night after a period of illness.
The president of the Gainesville Tea Party said she "would probably disagree" with the Tennessee Tea Party's push to remove slavery from textbook references that make the Founding Fathers look bad.
About 13 percent of students who called the Student Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol for nighttime rides on campus used the service's web-based system.
UF's Speech and Hearing Clinic and the Gainesville chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of Florida sponsor free lipreading classes on Mondays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
A UF professor testified about potential voting limitations in a Florida election law before U.S. senators Friday afternoon.
A NASA science team discovered 11 new solar systems hosting at least 26 new planets, according to a UF news release.
Students pulled down a brick wall of stereotypes at noon Friday on the Plaza of the Americas.
The library is open 24 hours a day starting 10 a.m. Sundays and staying open through 10 p.m. Fridays. It is also open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays.
Mtt Romney is the desired UF College Republicans favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.
From 12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Broward Hall library, Multicultural and Diversity Affairs will host an event highlighting the works of civil rights activists from different communities.
The Florida Museum of Natural History took Mother Nature digital this month.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas will be speaking about immigration legislation 6 p.m Monday at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service in Pugh Hall.
Richard Heipp, who has been a painting professor at UF for 30 years, has also served as department chair, graduate coordinator and assistant director.
Cody Seltzer, 19, was charged with robbery and kidnapping with the intention to force the victim to commit a felony.
Ann Liv Young, an internationally recognized choreographer and performance artist, spent two weeks at UF re-staging her 2002 piece, "American Crane Standards," for the School of Theatre and Dance's production "Dance 2012" opening Feb. 17.
UF Hillel partnered with seven organizations to bring Scott Fried, an international public speaker, HIV educator and author, to Gainesville for a weekend.
About 100 fewer students qualified to run in this season's Student Government elections.
Florida may not have won the entire Texas A&M Challenge, but the Gators were certainly not the weakest link in the Southeastern Conference chain.
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