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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.

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UF welcomes new director of LGBTQ+ affairs

By Kaelyn Cassidy | Jan. 8, 2020

She was chosen from a pool of more than 100 applicants

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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UF researchers discover new anticancer drug

By Meleah Lyden | Jan. 6, 2020

The potential drug could treat cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma

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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.

Robert Sammel, 49, waves an American fl ag Saturday afternoon during the No War with Iran protest along Northwest 16th Boulevard. About 50 people attended the event, and organizers said it was held to spread awareness for the danger of military escalation in Iran following an airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

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Gainesville, UF react to death of top Iranian general in strike

By Hannah Phillips | Jan. 5, 2020

The strike prompted anti-war protests

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Quds Force, attends an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, in Tehran, Iran. Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, that Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

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US kills Iran's most powerful general in Baghdad strike

By The Associated Press | Jan. 2, 2020

BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region.

Yoni Michanie, activist and Sgt. 1st Class in the Israeli Defense Force, talks with students Tuesday night after speaking in Little Hall.

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Protesters didn’t use anti-Semitic language against campus speaker, UF says

By Hope Dean | Dec. 19, 2019

UF students and faculty received an email last Friday correcting a previous university statement: protesters did not definitively use anti-Semitic language against a campus speaker in November.