GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It wasn’t long after longtime commercial writer Sandra “Sam” Williams and husband Jerry left their full-time desk jobs to start a 200-acre farm in Starke that they realized they could use a little help.
“Sitting at a keyboard doesn’t give you much insight into how to harvest chickens or ward off whiteflies,” [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Kátia Moraes and Sambaguru concert, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 23, has been postponed. The concert will be rescheduled at a later date. Refunds for the performance are available at the point of purchase.
Tickets for other events in the UFPA 2007-08 Season are available by calling the Phillips Center [...]
Download MP3 (3.3 MB)
This is Update Weekly, your online audio source of University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday, February 18th.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A cup of milk, a scoop of sugar, and a splash of liquid nitrogen. It’s ice cream a la Gator Engineers, and it’s on the menu at Engineers Week today through Feb. 23 at the University of Florida.
Events include soccer and golf tournaments, a 5K run, a field day, a Jeopardy-style brain [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Combining soul-stirring a cappella harmonies with American Sign Language interpretation, Sweet Honey in the Rock has been entertaining and uplifting audiences around the globe for more than 30 years. The Grammy award-winning group brings their special blend of spirituals, hymns, gospel, jazz and blues to the Phillips Center for the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gordon Lightfoot, perhaps the most accomplished and well-known singer/songwriter to ever come out of Canada, will perform for one night only at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts this February.
Lightfoot is internationally known for such monumental folk/pop/rock hits as “Sundown,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Early Mornin’ Rain,” “Wreck [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The airbrush, that tool behind tattoos and T-shirts, may have an unexpected future — in technology.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The new book selected for the Common Reading Program will be unveiled at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 22 at the Plaza of the Americas. The provost and vice president of Student Affairs will be in attendance.
The new book will be implemented into the curriculum beginning in the fall.
Anthropology professor Connie Mulligan was quoted in a Feb. 13 Reuters story about her research that found early migrants from Asia to the New World stayed possibly 20,000 years on a strip of land called Beringia that once connected Alaska to Siberia. The story also was the subject of numerous other media reports, including The Discovery Channel. See related release.