UF graduate now representing Gators
By JOE MORGAN< | Sep. 15, 2013NFL agent Jon Perzley and Jermaine Cunningham are both UF alums, but it took a pair of shorts for the latter to realize the connection.
NFL agent Jon Perzley and Jermaine Cunningham are both UF alums, but it took a pair of shorts for the latter to realize the connection.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The faint smell of cow manure travels to the hallowed grounds from a campus farm just across the way. Rolling hills with lush trees resemble the opening scene from “Jurassic Park” as the camera pans away to reveal a vast expanse of green.
A Gainesville man who’s been on the run since he killed a local man was caught Sunday morning in Hampton, Va., by the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force.
UF students will be able to receive free flu shots starting at the end of the week.
Florida’s season opener at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational was a struggle.
In the made-over Reitz Union, a wall glows vivid hues of orange and blue. As students walk by, they cast digital shadows on its surface, reflecting computerized images that mirror their movements.
The downtown sushi restaurant Dragonfly is undergoing its first metamorphosis since it opened 13 years ago.
GatorWell Health Promotion Services has kicked off a new Fall mental health promotions segment to target student stress levels.
Students who paint memorials on the 34th Street Wall to honor friends and loved ones eventually mourn the artwork itself.
Although scooters are common and can be prone to mishaps, campus police say accident reports are infrequent.
Gainesville Police arrested a man after he fired shots at a group and threw a brick at another man’s car last week.
As Alachua County schools are getting classes into full swing, teachers and staff at the Horizon Center — including UF graduates — are working against the odds.
Algae could help provide a whole new meaning to the phrase “going green.” The organisms have the potential to be used as a source of oil, UF graduate research assistant and doctoral student Elton Goncalves said. In fact, he said he is certain renewable energy is headed in that direction.
The National Science Foundation awarded scientists of the McGuire Center at the Florida Museum of Natural History a grant to classify a common but data-rich butterfly group.
The phrase sounds better in Spanish, the way I heard it first: “Amor con hambre no dura.” “Hungry love doesn’t last.”
Everybody knows politics is a dirty business, and some elected officials are far dirtier than others. Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer learned that fact the hard way, and last week, they watched their potential political comebacks fizzle like the Gators’ offense did in the red zone against Miami.
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Thanks to its long connection to famed linguist and author Noam Chomsky, a renowned speaker to worldwide audiences, the Civic Media Center was able to give UF’s ACCENT Speaker’s Bureau a chance to present professor Chomsky on the UF campus this Fall. In 2003, with ACCENT co-sponsorship, Chomsky spoke at the O’Connell Center to 6,000 people.
The No. 5 Gators walked out of the O’Connell Center on Saturday as the Active Ankle Challenge champions but not without taking some major blows on defense.
No. 18 Florida fell victim again at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational on Saturday afternoon, remaining in 15th place.