Julianna is a first-year journalism student and The Alligator's Spring 2026 race and equity reporter. She was previously an editor for Eagle Media, Florida Gulf Coast University's student newspaper. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games and reading. She is hoping to attend law school in the future.
The data scientist and adjunct UF professor is one of several local researchers who say the systems behind AI can reflect bias in ways that shape real-world outcomes.
For decades, Alachua County’s schools have faced scrutiny over stark racial achievement gaps that have proven difficult to narrow. Despite various initiatives, community members and education experts say disparities persist — shaped by ineffective state policy, high staff turnover and historic inequities.
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya visited UF’s public health and health profession auditorium to speak with its research community about innovation, funding and restoring the public’s trust in science Wednesday afternoon.
An estimated 416 Iranians — including 96 international students at UF — live in Gainesville. Though the war has caused difficulties in daily life, it's also filled some with a sense of pride.
Organized by the Korean Undergraduate Student Association, the event drew about 150 attendees and featured dances, a ukulele sing-along and a taekwondo demonstration.
NCII includes a wide range of behaviors, from the sharing of private sexual images without consent to threatening or coercing someone using intimate photos or videos.
Community-made quilts honor 47 victims of racial violence in Alachua County as part of a broader remembrance effort
Organizers held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the reopening of the renovated Martin Luther King Memorial Garden.
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds and conservative commentator Benny Johnson spoke to UF students Thursday night about immigration, home ownership and other issues at a Turning Point USA chapter event.
Las elecciones del 2024 vieron aumentar el apoyo al presidente Donald Trump entre votantes latinos.
UF Taekwondo Club finishes their performance at a show celebrating Seollal, hosted by KUSA, in the Reitz Ballroom, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, in Gainesville, Fla.
Quilt honoring five victims across Waldo, Hawthorne, Campville and Rochelle – including an unidentified child.
Ten squares represent individual lynching victims in Alachua and Newnansville.
One of the quilts honors the names of 13 people lynched in Newberry.
Names stitched into a quilt memorialize 12 people lynched in Gainesville.
A quilt remembering four people lynched in Micanopy bears the words, “If there is to be reconciliation, there must first be truth.”
The High Springs quilt bears the names of four victims and stars donated by the family of Lee Walker.
Quilt dedicated to Tom Williams, who was lynched in 1871. Betty Davis, a community member who worked on the quilt, said she was surprised to see so many people at the exhibit. “It’s a joy,” Davis said. “To see so many people come out here to see projects that we worked on.”
A quilt honors lynching victims from Monteocha, Gordon and LaCrosse.
Kehlani Kelly stuns in a drag performance at Bo Diddley Plaza in Gainesville Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.
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