Seeing your energy return to this community is like watching the great battery of this university getting recharged. So with that charge approaching 100%, let’s chat.
La historia de Latin Food Blessing es más de un ceviche o un lomo saltado — es un restaurante que empieza en Costa Rica, con una historia de amor.
Mia Sáchez, Sharylen López y Lucía Sánchez llegaron a la Universidad de Florida desde diferentes territorios, familias y legados. Todas comparten algo en común: son las primeras en sus familias que llegan a estudiar a una universidad en Estados Unidos y a perseguir sus sueños más allá de las fronteras.
Happy first week Gators, and welcome to The Swamp! Whether you’re stepping onto campus for the very first time or returning for another chapter in your journey here, I am beyond excited to greet you as this year’s Student Body president.
Welcome back to fall in Gainesville! Yes, I know it’s technically still summer, and I know it’s still hot. It’s going to be this way for a bit, but I promise you there’s no better place to be than right here in Gator Country right now.
After several of last year’s key players left the team for the 2025 MLB Draft, the Gators had a number of positional holes to fill.
UF head coach Ryan Theis is set to fill Mary Wise’s shoes and take over Florida’s program, which is ranked No. 16 in the AVCA Division I Women's Volleyball Poll.
Eight members of the Florida football team were named to the 2025 Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team.
Todd Golden expressed excitement to join the Player's Era Championship tournament and bolster the Gators' non conference schedule in 2026.
You're in The Swamp. This is college football in the SEC, where rivalries are the backbone of collegiate sports culture, and school colors course through loyal fans’ veins like blood.
Beaming with school pride, Gators football unites students, alumni and Gainesville locals in orange and blue. The university’s chants set the tone and bring raucous energy to the stadium each year.
Freshman year of college is a mountain to climb. Many obstacles lie in the wake of the best times most college students will experience. With that in mind, I wanted to give my top five restaurants in Gainesville and some must-order options.
Florida soccer was shut out in its season opener against the Florida State Seminoles.
Despite the federal government’s efforts to conceal what happens inside the recently — and hastily — built immigration detention center officially named “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility garnered national attention. We must speak up against this blatant violation of human dignity before it’s too late.
Florida football is deep into training camp, and several standouts are making their case for playing time ahead of the 2025 season.
I applied to The Alligator to become a copy editor over a year ago as a last-minute decision, kicking off what would become one of the most rewarding times of my life.
I would often lie on the floor, eyes fixated on each divot of my popcorn ceiling, contemplating what would become of my life at the University of Florida. I had all this passion with nowhere to put it. Now, I navigate winding roads and uneven staircases with the might and heart of a journalist, a part of me I would never have unlocked if I hadn’t stepped through the propped-open door of The Alligator office.
En Florida, donde las leyes y el estigma persistente pueden hacer que las conversaciones sobre el sexo parezcan un tema tabú, la universidad ya ofrece suficientes sorpresas, por lo que encontrar atención médica sexual no debería ser una de ellas. Aquí te indicamos dónde acudir, qué debes saber y quién te puede ayudar en UF y en Gainesville.
La comunidad hispana en la Universidad de Florida representa el grupo minoritario más grande. Para ofrecer un espacio a los estudiantes que quieren sentirse conectados con sus raíces, organizaciones estudiantiles realizan actividades y programas que celebran la cultura latina, promueven la integración y ayudan a los estudiantes, nuevos y regulares, a encontrar su lugar en el campus.
Patrick Reakes didn’t think he’d be a librarian. Forty-three years after his freshman year at the University of Florida, he’s serving as the interim director of the George A. Smathers Libraries.
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