Machen trip still scheduled
By THOMAS STEWART | July 20, 2009UF President Bernie Machen's trip to Indonesia later this month is still on the schedule despite Friday's attacks at two luxury hotels in the country's capital of Jakarta.
UF President Bernie Machen's trip to Indonesia later this month is still on the schedule despite Friday's attacks at two luxury hotels in the country's capital of Jakarta.
In the first of what will likely be many meetings, UF President Bernie Machen discussed student safety with the owner and general manager of The Jacksonville Landing on Friday.
Bruce Kone, former dean of UF/s College of Medicine, will receive $517,000 over the next three years as part of a resignation settlement that went into effect this month.
In a small den on the west side of the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, there are now four Asian small-clawed otters, two more than there used to be.
This fall, students will enjoy 300 more parking spaces than last semester.
A Spanish red blend wine and a nine-generation chocolate butter rum cake will set the mood for the first Summer Wine Festival fundraiser.
UF journalism students may face more than just hiring freezes when they graduate.
Citing privacy rules, UF officials aren't revealing what possible consequences a student fired for plagiarizing The New York Times during a reporting internship will face.
UF President Bernie Machen's proposed changes to the festivities surrounding the UF-Georgia football game in Jacksonville - including a ban on the sale of liquor shots - are getting some heat from Student Government, including Student Body President Jordan Johnson.
Drivers can expect traffic delays across central Gainesville to end no earlier than September 2011, according to a state official.
UF announced Tuesday it will receive a five-year, $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to cut the time it takes for scientific breakthroughs to become incorporated into medical practices.
With bed bug season in full swing, UF said it/s time to turn up the heat.
On March 9, 2004, George Goens was awoken by a phone call at 3:50 a.m. telling him that his daughter, Betsy, was in trouble.
A UF professor was announced Friday as the president-elect of the International Neuropsychological Society, a worldwide, nonprofit organization.
A visit to Indonesia by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March has spurred UF President Bernie Machen and other university heads to travel there to foster relationships with their universities.
UF announced Tuesday it will receive a five-year $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to speed the pace at which scientific breakthroughs become incorporated into medical practices.
"Are you a freshman?" was the question of the afternoon Saturday on the Reitz Union north lawn.
Students may have been able to hear a pin drop in the Reitz Union during Summer A, but things are picking up, with an event scheduled nearly every day of Summer B.
UF's Florida Alternative Breaks program, which recently won the 2009 National Alternative Break Program of the Year from Break Away, will have summer trips from Aug. 9 through Aug. 19 this year, and interested students need to have their applications in by July 13.