Two faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be laid off June 30 to make way for the reinstatement of two assistant professors last week, according to Paul D'Anieri, dean of the college.
I am a fourth-year senior in the Department of Geological Sciences, a department that despite its prolific publication record and contributions to scholarship is now facing the ax. If the state revenues are as dire as predicted, the college will require that we cut all the lab managers, nontenured faculty and an office worker (we only have three). In simple terms, this means that for every $9 cut from the budget, one dollar comes directly from geology.
For the first time in Florida Blue Key's 86-year history, Gov. Charlie Crist opened up the Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee for Florida Blue KeyÕs Legislative Day 2009.
Did you know that someone, after breaking up with her bow, (not "beau;" you'll see where this is going) actually got married to the Eiffel Tower?
Like a modern Atlas, Lansana Camara holds up the world for 25 severely disabled orphans in Conakry, Guinea.
UF would lay off about 140 faculty and staff under the 10-percent budget proposals that have been released by its colleges so far.
Organs of a different type were on display outside UF's McKnight Brain Institute Monday night.
Seventy-eight percent of UF students said they wanted it in a spring 2007 referendum and now it's inching closer toward reality.
JACKSONVILLE - When the rain clouds settled over the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, finalizing a 3-2 five-inning loss for UF at the hands of rival FSU, the Gators' recent propensity for slow starts became magnified as the last four innings were washed away.
UF religion graduate student Leah Sarat often prays that whatever happens to her job and research position, her talents still can be used to best serve the world.
Those on hand to watch UF's spring practices in the past week have been treated to a bizarre sight: quarterbacks Tim Tebow and John Brantley taking snaps under center.
The people who have to clean up our worldwide financial mess are meeting in London this week to talk. The G20 summit brings together bankers and leaders from across the globe, and this year they need to piece together what is left of the world economy. Most expect President Obama to do a lot of listening and apologizing.
About eight students rallied together on the Plaza of the Americas Monday morning in support of giving education rights to immigrant students.
Leave it to the Alligator Editorial Board to argue gun rights on purely emotional rather than logical or factual grounds.
The 2004 movie "Super Size Me" showed the dangerous truth of an ballooning waistline due to a McDonald's diet, but now, during the economic recession, the only thing ballooning for McDonald's are its sales.
A little less than a year ago, Urban Meyer said it would be hard to keep incoming freshman defensive tackle Omar Hunter off the field. Meyer could have shoved all of Hunter's 308 pounds out there with the first team defense when he arrived in Gainesville. And he wasn't bashful about praising Hunter's abilities, calling him the Tim Tebow of last year's recruiting class.
It's hard to say which causes a bigger swing in momentum: winning a rivalry game or losing a rivalry game with a rematch scheduled just two weeks later.
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