After a flubbed test of its emergency messaging system Wednesday, UF will send another batch of text messages to students and employees some time Friday.
The UF College of Fine Arts re-created Johann Sebastian Bach for a "live" video Web cast. Resembling the technology used by Pixar Animation Studios, Bach answered questions from the audience at Norman Hall.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was the topic of interest Thursday when UF’s Pro-Life Alliance held a demonstration on the Plaza of the Americas. The organization called the demonstration Margaret Sanger Exposed and talked about her attitude toward eugenics, or selective breeding, through sterilization and birth control.
Five bands will play a free show an the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom as part of The Fest 8, a punk music festival taking place Friday through Sunday in Gainesville.
About 40 residents of Maguire Village and University Village South, two of UF’s graduate and family housing facilities, met with officials from the Department of Housing Thursday night to discuss problems with their wireless Internet.
UF said it will conduct another test of its emergency messaging system soon – perhaps Thursday – after problems plagued its test Wednesday.
Florida Prepaid's tuition differential fee plan has raised its price for newborns from $4,600 in 2008 to $20,000 in 2009.
Representatives from 25 UF organizations participated in Student Government's Politics on the Plaza to encourage students get politically involved on campus.
About 30 members of the comedy troupe Theatre Strike Force pretended to be a horde of zombies on campus. They were inspired by the UF Emergency Zombie Plan that appeared on e-Learning and was taken down earlier this month.
A resolution supporting a one-cent pay increase for Immokalee workers passed 57-19 in the Student Senate on Wednesday. The workers pick tomatoes used by Aramark, UF's food provider.
The Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion will be transformed into a magical world, just in time for Halloween, complete with dancers, cross-dressers, an accordion player, pianists and video projections.
UF's campus burglaries have more than tripled from 2007 to 2008.
The new admissions office account puts the number of total accounts associated with UF at 25.
UF will test its emergency message system at noon Wednesday. In a summer test, it took more than an hour for some to receive text messages on their phones.
A federal appeals court dismissed a case on Tuesday brought by a Christian fraternity that clashed with UF after it was not allowed to select members based on religion.
More than 100 participated in the annual sexual health fair hosted by Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood outside the Reitz Union.
The dean of UF's College of Nursing was not selected to be Georgia Southern University's president.
TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie will speak at the Phillips Center during a week of events on campus related to the shoes.
Shands employees who deal with patients will be among the first to get swine flu vaccine.
UF professor Anita Wright and graduate student Mark Campbell have developed a new test that detects oysters that will make people sick.
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