January 2008 Archive

Housing crisis sinks Florida consumer confidence to 16-year low

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The fallout from the ongoing housing crisis caused a four-point drop in Florida’s consumer confidence index to 70 this month, its lowest level in 16 years, a new University of Florida study reports.

Filed under Business, Florida, Research on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Annual Latin American Conference to be held at UF, Feb. 7-8

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The 57th Annual Latin American Conference of the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies will be held Feb. 7-8 at Reitz Student Union. The event promises to provide a unique examination of how corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, strategic planning, community participation and sustainability can be combined to meet the challenges [...]

Filed under Announcements, Top Stories on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Degree Applications Due

Graduating seniors should be aware that degree applications are due by 5 p.m. on Feb. 1 if they plan to graduate at the end of the spring semester. Students may call 352-392-1374 for more information, or visit http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/catalog/adspring0708.html.

Filed under Note This on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

E-mail Scam Alert

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida community should be on alert for a fraudulent e-mail message with the subject, “Verify your UFL email account now,” which is currently circulating on the Internet. Do not respond to the “Verify your UFL email account now” message.

Filed under Note This on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Symposium to focus on “green” building

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Experts from law and related fields will meet Feb. 15 at the University of Florida Hilton Conference Center to discuss “green” building practices in Florida. Presented by the UF Levin College of Law and co-sponsored by sections of The Florida Bar, this year’s conference is entitled “Green Building: Prospects and Pitfalls for [...]

Filed under Note This on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

What’s Your Focus?

Eye-opening and life-changing are the best words to describe the day I decided to get involved with the climate change initiative. After attending a conference on climate change issues in Florida, my philosophy emerged: Nothing in climate change is possible without collective action. If you follow popular belief, you know that it took collective action [...]

Filed under Voices Column on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Air Force ROTC aces over the competition

What do a fraternity president, a varsity pole vaulter, and a Black Student Union president all have in common? They are all proud cadets with the University of Florida’s Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), recently named one of the best in the United States.
“In a school of 50,000, we’re just a small group, [...]

Filed under Top Stories on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Garden springs to life as renewed community sanctuary

Various pieces of literature, art and songs have a “forgotten garden” theme, and there’s no need to look far to find the University of Florida’s own forgotten garden.
It was a different era when the once-thriving gardens at the corner of Gale Lemerand Drive and Mowry Road were a Gainesville tourist attraction, popular wedding site and [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

InsideUF: January 29, 2008

Here’s the print version of InsideUF for January 29, 2008.

Filed under InsideUF (Campus), Print Edition on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Associated Press: Chris McCarty

Chris McCarty, director of UF’s Survey Research Center, was quoted in a Jan. 29 Associated Press story about the monthly Florida consumer confidence report. The story was the result of a News Bureau release.

Filed under UF In The News on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.