In an attempt to alter its reputation as a space catered to educating the youth, one UF museum is offering adults a chance to leave the kids at home and indulge in its exhibits after dark.
In Jonny Howard’s backyard, a 50-gallon barrel is catching raindrops off his rooftop.
In the year 1840, when the U.S. was not even a century old, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville wrote the historical “Democracy in America,” the detailed observations of a nation just starting to break on through its initial growing pains. By then, the experiment that was the U.S. had been around long enough for both its citizens and outsiders from Europe to take note of how things were going. If the life of America, thus far was a college course, “Democracy in America” would be the country’s gradebook after a rough midterm week. A point where one thinks, “Alright, how are we doing here?”
Women who have made their way to the top of the professional food chain did so by shattering through the tenacious glass ceiling that prevents women from climbing up the rungs of the corporate ladder.
As the rush of Valentine’s Day week ends, bouquets of dead flowers start to show up in trash cans, and those little helium balloons are starting to take up space. Perhaps you stocked up on chocolates, or you’re going through the large box you were given. Either way, the one holiday to look forward to in February (unless you’re really enthusiastic about Presidents Day) has passed, and now there’s only Spring Break to look forward to. That is, unless, you have grabbed a copy of our dear newspaper and flipped open to this week’s …
It was the start of a new year for Karan Khullar, one that was supposed to bring new beginnings, new friends and a slate of new experiences in a foreign land.
About 6,000 people, packed into the O’Connell Center on Wednesday night, were invited to rush the stage by Lil Yachty’s entourage — and then forced back into their seats.
Two Valentine’s Day picnics were crashed Tuesday by an uninvited guest: an alligator with an appetite.
Alachua County launched a smartphone app that could make communicating with the county easier.
Shimmy Gray-Miller still vividly remembers the first time she met Kay Yow.
Baseball is back.
It’s the pivotal moment of any Florida floor routine.
With one out in the top of the third inning, junior Nicole DeWitt stood in the batter's box.
After more than 680 undocumented immigrants were arrested across the country last week, rumors of raids in Gainesville have circulated through the city.
Impact Party plans to release its platform today after gathering ideas from more than 200 students Thursday and Friday.
Decades after their hangings, 19 lynching victims will soon be honored with memorials throughout Alachua County.
UF researchers will launch seeds into space to prepare for the future of space travel and Earth’s changing environment Friday.
Three civil rights activists visited UF on Wednesday, telling a small crowd of about 25 a story of how a movement is rising up against systemic racism in Brazil.
There’s an old quote — attributed to Chinese philosophers for some reason, even though the exact origins are dubious — that wishes to the listener, “May you live in interesting times.” This wish is called the “Chinese curse.” Now, at first that might seem a little odd. Don’t we want to live in interesting times? But it doesn’t take much reflection to get what the quote actually implies.
Today, I’m in Boston with UF alumni celebrating the induction of five UF faculty members as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and this week’s meeting has 10,000 attendees. UF now has 51 AAAS fellows, an indicator of our excellence in science and engineering.
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