UF awarded $20,000 to help improve solar energy
By ILEANA MORALES | Apr. 6, 2008A UF team "playing catch" with solar energy won a $20,000 grant to help them get it right.
A UF team "playing catch" with solar energy won a $20,000 grant to help them get it right.
With their sequined prom dresses shining in the sun, about 30 women wrapped their arms around one another and smiled wide for the camera. Some had their hair in curls, and others donned tiaras.
Those responsible for maintaining UF's campus, including groundskeepers and irrigation workers, got a taste of appreciation Friday from a UF organization.
The SFCC campus was evacuated Friday morning after a faculty member found a bomb threat written on a campus wall.
The amber wood-paneled dance floor vibrated as bass beats rumbled through the room. Two crews lined up on opposite sides, eyes set on their opponents. The DJ scratched the record, and suddenly bodies flew across the floor and lifted into air, freezing in acrobatic and abstract poses.
Hajime! Koka! Yuko!
The SFCC campus was evacuated Friday morning after a faculty member found a bomb threat written on a campus bathroom wall.
UF's Student Senate president said plans to revise Student Body statutes and the replacement-senator process are underway following questions surrounding another senator's residence.
After a year and a half of research and debate, the student health insurance committee at UF has agreed on a new insurance plan, which is set to begin in August.
UF and Morehouse College are teaming up to encourage college students to be more active in their communities on today's 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
UF students could get a chance to vote on whether a 5 percent technology fee is implemented, according to a bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate's Committee on Higher Education Appropriations.
A shrill cry pierced the air of a hospital room in Zambia as a young woman fell to her knees, clutching a limp bundle wrapped in a white sheet.
Rental rates for on-campus residences will increase by $65 per semester this fall.
About 650 UF students will participate in non-stop bop this weekend for Dance Marathon, a fundraiser that benefits the Children's Miracle Network at Shands Children's Hospital at UF.
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Oshinsky spoke at UF Wednesday night about the historical and cultural effects that polio, which hasn't been seen in the U.S. in two decades, has had on the 20th century.
As part of National Donate Life Month, members of a student organization that encourages organ donation will host a free concert tonight at the Orange & Brew.
Officials from UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said the college would be unable to make the 6 percent budget cut UF President Bernie Machen asked each college to prepare for earlier this semester.
UF research projects were given more than $3 million in grants from the Florida Legislature, the Board of Governors announced on Wednesday.
A UF student senator representing off-campus students is doing so from a few hundred miles away - at least technically.
Construction to add five classrooms to the Florida Gym began Tuesday.