Floridance to showcase performance choreographed by students
By DEBORAH SWERDLOW | Apr. 22, 2008Floridance, UF's student-run dance company, invites the community to get "Caught in the Movement" and get caught doing a good deed on Sunday.
Floridance, UF's student-run dance company, invites the community to get "Caught in the Movement" and get caught doing a good deed on Sunday.
Curiosity led Mary Katherine Smith to the opportunity of a lifetime - the chance to spin that famous wheel.
As checking e-mail and surfing social-networking sites have become compulsive for many college students, professors around the country - and at UF - have begun limiting laptop use in classrooms.
More than 800 students responded to a survey that asked if they would be willing to pay 50 cents per credit hour to finance sources of renewable energy on campus. Results are in, and more than 80 percent said "Yes."
Reservations for the Arredondo Room in the Reitz Union will be postponed, and the entire fourth floor will be closed this summer as remodeling plans are finalized.
Put down your textbooks, grab your sneakers and get ready to run.
As the United States enters the sixth year of the war in Iraq, a UF organization wants to install a memorial for local veterans who have served the country in the past 63 years.
At age 16, Lynn Bailey represented her home state of South Carolina in a nationwide 4-H competition for her research on nutrition and healthy dieting.
Andrew Enriquez, a third-year history student, had 212 friends, pumped iron whenever he could and loved listening to Tupac - according to his Facebook profile.
At the beginning of the fall, all it took was two clicks from UF's home page to call up your favorite UF trustee and ask him or her your burning question. But not today.
Equipment-use fees that UF piloted this semester in four colleges will be made available across the university this fall as part of a larger effort to generate funds in light of major budget cuts.
A UF council made recommendations to clean up a textbook-royalty policy for UF faculty members who assign books they authored in courses they teach.
UF Provost Janie Fouke, who announced her resignation from her post about a month ago, has been selected as one of six public candidates for the chancellor position at Louisiana State University.
With the whip of a colorful sari, the beat of an African drum and the fluttering wave of a fan, UF dancers held their audience spellbound with every kick, twirl and back flip.
When Katie Krasne, a UF freshman, went out Saturday night, all she wanted was her family.
Signs of Life, a UF student-run performance troupe, will merge hip-hop, acting, dancing, video, graffiti and more into an hour-long performance Monday and Tuesday in its new show, "Reaching Through the Static."
The first full-scale test of UF's emergency-notification system on Friday has been dubbed a success by UF officials, but questions about the text-messaging test still linger.
It's a Thursday night in downtown Gainesville. While the rain is pouring, 13 people are standing in line outside a nondescript building.
In the midst of a political frenzy surrounding the 2008 presidential campaign, UF's Bob Graham Center for Public Service turned the focus from the candidates to the media.