AT&T donates $100K to UF scholarship program
By ILEANA MORALES | Mar. 16, 2008UF's Florida Opportunity Scholars Program received a $100,000 donation on March 8, adding to the more than $3 million raised for the program since its start in 2006.
UF's Florida Opportunity Scholars Program received a $100,000 donation on March 8, adding to the more than $3 million raised for the program since its start in 2006.
Terry Hynes, the former dean of UF's College of Journalism and Communications, has been selected to fill the senior vice chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs position at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
UF Provost Janie Fouke and Senior Vice President for Health Affairs Doug Barrett resigned from their posts amid a major restructuring of the way UF handles its financial operations.
Starting in the fall, UF students will see several changes on UF's campus: higher parking decal prices, a new Flavet Field band shell and renovations at Southwest Recreation Center, to name a few.
U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received the severed finger of a 25-year-old former UF student who is being held hostage in Iraq.
One of the remaining candidates for the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean position is visiting campus today.
UF Provost Janie Fouke and Senior Vice President for Health Affairs Doug Barrett will resign effective June 30 following the announcement of a major restructuring of UF's financial operations.
Elton John will not visit UF this weekend due to a kidney stone, said UF President Bernie Machen at Friday's Board of Trustees meeting.
The Board of Trustees, UF's highest governing body, will discuss a host of issues - including bleak budget expectations, money-saving plans and new parking decal prices - at its meetings Thursday and Friday.
As UF students head home for Spring Break, almost 400 donors will head to campus to see what their money has done for the university and possibly consider giving more.
Two U.S. senators shared their views on this year's presidential candidates and the work awaiting the winner during a speech Thursday night.
Two days after a bomb threat closed UF's Florida Gym for two hours, University Police Department investigators said they knew the same amount of information about the threat as they did that day.
Another order of french fries? More potatoes?
David Feinstein knows that students living on campus face problems when getting their weekly groceries, including time constraints, transportation issues and parking restrictions.
Library West reopened Wednesday morning after plumbing problems closed the building for nearly 15 hours on Tuesday.
The president of the Network for enlightened Women discussed the distinction between two prominent feminist groups at a speech Wednesday night.
Hundreds of UF students, officials and alumni gathered at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service on Wednesday morning to dedicate the center and honor its namesake - a man UF President Bernie Machen deemed UF's "most prominent graduate."
Sen. Mike Haridopolos could be at UF as early as this summer after meeting with UF's Department of Political Science chairman Wednesday afternoon.
E.J. Walicki's resignation from his position as UF Student Body treasurer will create a gap in UF's executive branch, but Student Government officials said there would be a replacement by March 18.
Student Body Treasurer E.J. Walicki announced his resignation at Tuesday night's Student Senate meeting.