The St. Francis Pet Care clinic opened its doors in 2007. Its first patient, Baby Girl, belonged to a homeless woman in the community.
The Gainesville Regional Transit System changes its schedule in accordance with the collegiate semesters, making the Summer semester more limited for bus riders. Many routes, such as the 118, 121 and Later Gator routes D and F, go on vacation and will not run during the Summer semester, wrote Chip Skinner, the marketing and communications supervisor for RTS, in an email.
After a two-week break, UF’s Reitz Union Board Entertainment will resume its regular GatorNights event from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Reitz Union on Friday. Members of the student-run organization needed time to focus on final exams and graduation, Maggie Sutton, a graduate assistant for RUB, wrote in an email.
This year, the Legislature gave $2.6 million, in addition to the $1 million given to the Department of Animal Sciences last year, for the unit’s expansion, said Geoffrey Dahl, the chair of the Department of Animal Sciences.
“I wish for a world with no hate,” reads Anjali Lloyd’s poem sub- mission. “A world where people do not use their differences as bait.” Lloyd is one of 32 young poetry winners who will read their poems about peace to an audience of roughly 150 people this weekend at the Peace Poetry Reading and Reception event.
Gainesville Police arrested a Gainesville man Tuesday after they said he entered a home — despite the owner’s injunction against him — and hid in a closet, where he was later found with a lit cigarette.
Cannabix Technologies, a technology company based in Canada, enlisted the help of several UF scientists to develop a device that can detect THC on a person’s breath.
When Drake released “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” in February 2015, it felt like something was missing. To me, it sounded like Drake wasn’t trying at times, and the project really did feel like more of a mixtape than an album-quality project. To be clear, I still think that “IYRTITL” was very good; after all, Drake is one of the few artists that can’t miss. The scary part is, while “IYRTITL” was good, we all knew Drake could do better.
If asked to explain what they think it is like to live in Africa, most Americans would probably formulate a perception drastically different from the unapparent reality. As a result of either minimally skimming through the “Africa” section in newspapers or forgetting about the continent altogether, many Americans would draw from their high school history classes to describe today’s Africa. This only becomes a problem when it seems it is more than just average Americans using information from decades ago, because although the possible solutions to benefit Africa have changed, policies have not.
I used to abhor the expression “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” If there’s a Hell, we’re probably living in it already, and why fault people for their good intentions?
One of the challenges for us in assigning current events with a dart or a laurel is the fact that there is just so much to talk about. Economies across the globe may be in recession, but we never seem to run short on our supply of ridiculousness. Experts are saying its market value is at an all-time high. So, with all of the ups and downs in recent world news, we’d like to bring you a more international segment: “Dartos y Laurel-schteinem?” We digress.
To end the first week of Summer classes, The Jam is bringing music and free beer to town.
Movie4Mi was created in 2011 as an Android app, but in January of this year, the website version of the app officially launched. David Dawkins said the app was a side project he created while he was a pharmacy student at UF.
Three bands are converging at Gainesville’s Hardback Cafe on Saturday. Eve of November, CHEW and Analogue Ghost will be play- ing sets at the venue, located at 211 W. University Ave., starting at 10 p.m., with doors opening at 9 p.m.
After winning both the Southeastern Conference regular season and tournament titles, the No. 1 Florida women’s tennis team is exactly where it wants to be.
The Gators open up their first day of competition today at the three-day Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The Florida men’s tennis team exceeded all expectations.
Fresh off a 16-4 shellacking of Temple to win its second-straight Big East Tournament title, the No. 2 Florida lacrosse team was named the No. 2 overall seed in the 26-team NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
To Kevin O’Sullivan, Southeastern Conference play is a grind.
Through six innings, Florida mustered just three hits against South Florida pitcher Michael Clarkson.
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