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Monday, June 23, 2025

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NEWS | CAMPUS

UF Online ranked fourth in U.S. News 2020 Best Online Bachelor’s Programs

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 14, 2020

The program rose from fifth in 2019

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF researchers create heart attack prediction assessment

By Christopher S. Cann | Jan. 14, 2020

The assessment can predict users’ 10-year risk of heart attack or stroke

NEWS | CAMPUS

How does UF’s student debt compare nationally?

By Alyssa Feliciano | Jan. 12, 2020

The national student loan debt has doubled in the last decade

Students of UF professor Edward Phlips taking cyanobacteria samples out of a lake of an algal bloom.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF Health conducts study to determine if algal blooms threaten human health

By AJ Bafer | Jan. 12, 2020

The study was granted $130,000 by the Florida Department of Health.

Rescue workers inspect the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. A Ukrainian airplane with more than 170 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran's main airport, killing all onboard. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

NEWS | NATIONAL

Iranians shot down airliner, Western leaders declare

By Lolita C. Baldor | Jan. 10, 2020

LOLITA C. BALDOR and ZEKE MILLER

The UF Small Animal Hospital discovered that Nancy, a sulcata tortoise, is allergic to orchardgrass hay.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF documents first tortoise with allergies

By Anna Wilder | Jan. 10, 2020

She is allergic to orchardgrass hay

NEWS | FEATURES

Doctoral student demands response to UF sexual assault cases on website

By Hope Dean | Jan. 10, 2020

Records show some cases weren't handled correctly by faculty

NEWS | CAMPUS

What is the UF Board of Trustees?

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 9, 2020

Its decisions impact students every day, a spokesman said

After explaining to Bee College 2018 attendees how to split beehives, Rob Horsburgh, 43, demonstrates the steps Friday, Oct. 14, 2018. The event was hosted by the UF IFAS Honey Bee Research and Extension Lab and offered a variety of classes on beekeeping.

NEWS | CAMPUS

What's all the buzz about? UF introduces new beekeeping class

By Marlowe Starling | Jan. 9, 2020

Entomology and nematology department offers new online Beekeeping II class

Abby Farah, a 20-year-old nutrition junior, tours the new La Casita space on Wednesday. “I think it is fantastic that the La Casita space is open to us, especially for this class," Farah said. "I think it’s going to be really important for us to appreciate the space that the university has provided and that so many students have worked so incredibly hard for."

NEWS | CAMPUS

La Casita hosts class on Latinx Studies – the first class the institute has ever held

By Kaelyn Cassidy | Jan. 9, 2020

There are a limited number of seats left for the credited class

NEWS | CAMPUS

See a fire on campus? Don’t be alarmed by it.

By Stephany Matat | Jan. 8, 2020

The land hasn’t been burned since May 2018

A Puerto Rican flag hangs within the rubble, after it was placed there where store owners and family help remove supplies from Ely Mer Mar hardware store, which partially collapsed after an earthquake struck Guanica, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, killing one man, injuring others and collapsing buildings in the southern part of the island. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

NEWS | CAMPUS

Puerto Rican UF students affected, fearful of earthquake

By Meghan McGlone | Jan. 8, 2020

UF students worry for their home and family’s safety

Will Atkins, associate dean of students and senior director of the Multicultural and Diversity Affairs department at UF, announced Friday the hiring of Tiffany Richards, the new program director for LGBTQ+ Affairs, on Twitter.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF welcomes new director of LGBTQ+ affairs

By Kaelyn Cassidy | Jan. 8, 2020

She was chosen from a pool of more than 100 applicants

NEWS | CAMPUS

Chance of active draft is slim, UF professors say

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 7, 2020

They say public opinion is the obstacle to an active draft

A voter reads his ballot at the Hamilton County Board of Elections as early voting begins statewide, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, in Cincinnati.

NEWS

Proposed bill amendment would require matching addresses on Florida voter IDs and registrations

By Samantha Chery | Jan. 7, 2020

If passed, it could be a law by July 1

NEWS | CAMPUS

High winds damage the north shore of Lake Wauburg

By Allessandra Inzinna | Jan. 6, 2020

It will remain closed for repairs while the south shore reopens.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

What you missed at the December Board of Trustees meeting

By Ana Escalante | Jan. 6, 2020

UF sets goals to become a top five school

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

National headlines, new parties and stalled legislation: a roundup of Fall SG 2019

By Chasity Maynard | Jan. 6, 2020

What happened in Fall and what is coming in Spring

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF researchers discover new anticancer drug

By Meleah Lyden | Jan. 6, 2020

The potential drug could treat cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma

NEWS

UF student chosen for the Marshall Scholarship, will pursue Master’s degrees in United Kingdom

By Emma McAvoy | Jan. 6, 2020

He is the second in the university's history to be selected.

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