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Dees first used the chair's standing feature in a speech to UF alumni and administration

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF student journalist receives advanced standing wheelchair

By AJ Bafer | Feb. 10, 2020

Drew Dees is using a power wheelchair to advance his career

Mitch Capps, a 22-year-old UF forest resources and conservation junior, poses with his mom.

METRO

‘It’s a miracle:’ UF student’s condition steadily improves after fall from parking garage

By Sarah Mandile | Feb. 9, 2020

After a 60-foot fall, Mitch Capps continues to recover at UF Health Shands

Judges test quesadillas made by Eastside High in the NASA Astronaut Culinary Challenge.

METRO

Eastside High hosts NASA Astronaut Culinary Challenge

Feb. 9, 2020

Three Florida teams competed in the competition

D. Ayoka Sowa-La and her husband, Nii Sowa-La, perform a drum libation, a spiritual ritual involving the pouring of drink as an offering to deities, during the Alachua County lynching memorial service at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church Friday evening.

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Alachua County honors lynching victims nearly 100 years later

By Irfan Kovankaya | Feb. 9, 2020

More than 200 people gathered for the ceremony

Denise Griffiths, a UF English language and literature senior, died Wednesday after succumbing to brain and spinal injuries. She was 21. Griffiths was a spoken word poet and aspiring rapper.

NEWS | CAMPUS

More than 300 attend UF student’s funeral

By Chasity Maynard | Feb. 9, 2020

Griffiths passed away Jan. 29

Brennen Zinckgraf, a 21-year-old UF environmental engineering senior and recreational climber, works his way up an oak branch on Turlington Plaza on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, to examine the resurrection fern on the tree for a research project.

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Gainesville recognized as a “tree city of the world”

By Michelle Holder | Feb. 9, 2020

Only 59 other cities received the award

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TRACK

Distance runners shine at Camel City Invitational

By Declan Walsh | Feb. 9, 2020

Coming off of a dominating performance by Florida’s sprinting corps last week at the Razorback Invitational, the distance runners made their mark by breaking several personal records and earning a few nationally ranked times

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS SWIM AND DIVE

Several Gators pick up season-best times at Auburn

By Ainslie Lee | Feb. 9, 2020

Over the course of three days, select athletes from Florida’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams made their way to Auburn, Alabama, to compete in Auburn’s Last Chance Invitational. The event, which had no team scoring, provided an additional opportunity for competitors to post qualifying times for a wide slate of events.

SPORTS | SOFTBALL

Rollercoaster opening weekend ends with four wins for Florida

By Payton Titus | Feb. 9, 2020

If the USF-Rawlings Invitational were a rollercoaster, Saturday would have been the sudden, heart-wrenching drop for the Gators.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS TENNIS

UF holds off Purdue on the road

By Zachary Huber | Feb. 9, 2020

Purdue made the Gators earn their doubles point on Sunday morning.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS LACROSSE

Heller stomps Buffaloes with her late-game heroics

By Christian Ortega | Feb. 9, 2020

Shannon Kavanagh made an attempt to drive towards Colorado goalkeeper, Julia Lisella. Tied at one with roughly 20 minutes remaining in the game’s first half, Florida’s junior midfielder was looking to give her team its first lead of the game.