A UF group is educating students about queer and transgender minority students this week.
After sweeping its season-opening series against Florida Gulf Coast, the Florida baseball team had little time before switching its attention to its next opponent, Eastern Michigan.
Leading up to this year’s Bee College, UF experts shared the importance of protecting bees and the food they pollinate.
When 41-year-old Konstantin Matchev finished a half marathon Sunday, he hoped to see a familiar face at the finish line.
Mental health and student diversity are important issues to the second candidate for vice president of Student Affairs.
Krewes and scrums are coming to Gainesville.
Monday was a day of season bests as the Florida women’s golf team finished on top of the leaderboard after an explosive second round at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Golf Championship in New Orleans.
On Friday, the No. 2 Florida gymnastics team was set up for failure.
Gradually, the No. 5 Florida men’s golf team is learning to deal with adversity.
Before the Southeastern Conference Championships began in Columbia, Missouri, the UF men’s swimming and diving team, ranked No. 9, had a target painted on its back.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested an Archer, Florida, man early Sunday morning after they said he lost control of his truck while drunk.
A Gainesville woman was arrested early Sunday morning after police said she hid crack in her belly button and a crack pipe in her crotch.
UF ranked third among large colleges for the most Peace Corps volunteers.
While barbarity and violence are hard for the human race to shake (after all, why stop what you’re good at?), there are some outdated habits we can nip in the bud in the spirit of progress. True, the long and arduous fight to abandon nose-picking is one that requires society’s undivided attention, but I’m referring to the reaffirmation of the U.S. Constitution’s most important tenant: the separation of church and state. It’s time we ignore faith when taking part in the selection of the leader of the free world.
President Obama invited a UF professor to the White House last weekend.
UF’s Innovation Academy is helping students learn to network and build apps this week.
There is a growing trend in Israel and the West at large to criminalize and enact opposition against protest activity, such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeted at the practices of the Israeli government. Prejudices regarding BDS aside, we must focus on the issue at hand: the chipping away of free speech for the purposes of “security” or allegiance to the Israeli government.
What a time to be alive, indeed: Although most weekends are marked by a pronounced lack of newsworthy stories, last Saturday, both the Republican South Carolina primary and the Democratic Nevada primary produced more than a few headlines worthy of the nation’s attention. On the Democratic side of the aisle, Hillary Clinton scored her first decisive primary victory over Bernie Sanders in Nevada, reminding those “feeling the Bern” that no matter how hot the fire, an individualistic flame can still be put out by the overwhelming coldness of an icy political titan. Meanwhile in South Carolina, Saturday saw trust fund baby and rotting racist orange peel Donald Trump handily win the primary with 32.5 percent of the vote.
Alex Faedo doesn’t have the star power of Florida’s other starting pitchers, Logan Shore and A.J. Puk. He isn’t as polished as Shore and he doesn’t have Puk’s power arm.
Kevin O’Sullivan has tried to contain his excitement for freshman pitcher Brady Singer.
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