UF women’s tennis team takes home title from Newport
By Mari Faiello | Sep. 17, 2017The Hall of Fame/ITA Grass Court Invitational and Duke Bonk Invite had some successful finishes for the Florida women’s tennis team.
The Hall of Fame/ITA Grass Court Invitational and Duke Bonk Invite had some successful finishes for the Florida women’s tennis team.
It’s been a week since Hurricane Irma did a number on the Caribbean islands, Puerto Rico, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Many are still reeling from the damages, stress and anxiety brought on by the storm. More than 6.5 million people were told to evacuate Florida based on the projection of the storm, and a lot of them did. The interstates quickly became clogged with terrified people desperate to get themselves and their loved ones out of the storm’s path.
What makes a university great? Is it the academics? The prestige? The ability to help students move up the socio-economic ladder? And what are we really bragging about when we share a Facebook post about UF being a top-10 public institution?
Another day, another tweet from President Donald Trump. It doesn’t quite come as a surprise to anyone anymore, does it? Our president has desensitized many of us to his cruelty and ignorance by exposing us to his repulsive words on a daily, or sometimes hourly, basis.
On Saturday night, the president of Georgia Institute of Technology’s LGBTQ+ student organization, the Pride Alliance, stood in a parking lot holding a knife. Scout Schultz stood there — in full view of a student dormitory — and told Georgia Tech Police to shoot.
Hugh Wu unscrewed the rusty handles of a red children’s bike.
For the third year in a row, Gainesville got a taste of the biggest little show on earth.
Although Risa and Paul George visited the Florida Museum of Natural History with their three granddaughters to see the frog exhibit, they stayed for the Latino festival Saturday.
UF Health and PepsiCo Inc. will help UF Health Shands Hospital be environmentally conscious with an essay contest called It Pays to Think Green.
UF will join the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, a project that aims to collect data from 1 million Americans who are underrepresented in medical research.
UF Health Shands Hospital has joined a national alliance to teach women about heart disease and its risk factors.
The Florida Museum of Natural History is re-establishing the Miami blue butterfly, a species at risk of extinction.
A more efficient body measurement, which may replace the body mass index as a growth standard for health organizations worldwide, has been validated by UF researchers.
In the Heartwood Soundstage on Saturday, it rained laughter.
Reducing oxygen for just 30 minutes, known as hypoxia, can drive bacteria from the mother’s body into the fetus’s brain, UF researchers showed.
UF researchers have made progress toward a more effective therapy for dystonia, a debilitating and poorly understood neurological disorder.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a team of UF researchers $2.7 million to study whether it can use a rare immune cell in pigs to treat influenza.
Gainesville will get a taste of Latino flare on its screens for the rest of September.
Update Feb. 4, 2018: Connor Michael Lewis, 25, pled guilty with no contest, which is admitting to the facts of the case but not accepting fault, to one of two counts of battery on Jan. 8. Adjudication was withheld on the other count, meaning the judge ordered sanctions but didn't convict Lewis of the charge.
When Sara Greenberg, a manager at Panera Bread, isn’t at her day job, she swings swords and wields daggers.