President Bernie Machen’s op-ed column about how higher tuition could ensure a better education was published Dec. 16 in The Miami Herald. The column was edited by the News Bureau’s Op-Ed Service. It also was published in The Gainesville Sun and The Tallahassee Democrat.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s the time of year when festive lights outline rooftops and driveways, but University of Florida researchers have a different reason to celebrate the same technology that’s becoming popular Yule-time décor — better-growing crops.
This op-ed appeared in The Miami Herald, Tallahassee Democrat and Gainesville Sun.
By: Bernie Machen
Bernie Machen is the president of the University of Florida.
Last week’s headlines about the soaring costs of college may cause some to ask why Florida’s public universities and Gov. Charlie Crist support a plan to allow Florida universities to hike tuition 15 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida architecture associate professor Donna L. Cohen and visiting professor Claude E. Armstrong received the Holcim Acknowledgement Award in the Africa Middle East Region at a ceremony in November in Marrakech, Morocco, for their design of an integrated theater and orphanage in Tanzania. The ceremony was attended by more than [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Examining modern tax policy and how its implementation affects the economy and people’s lives is the purpose of the newly endowed Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture Series established at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Gelberg, a 1977 graduate of the college’s Graduate Tax Program, has pledged $500,000 from [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When Jennifer Pell went fishing with her dad, her sister Lauren liked to play with the minnows they used for bait rather than fish. On hunting trips, Lauren stayed behind while Jennifer grabbed a gun and headed out with the boys.
“I was the rowdy one, the one getting in trouble,” Jennifer said.
“I [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Starting next week, portions of four major roads on the University of Florida campus will be partially closed while they are being restored.
Jeff Bair, project manager for the Physical Plant Division, said the repairs will probably begin Monday on Museum Road, Newell Drive, Stadium Road and Buckman Drive.
The majority of the repairs, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Players, under the direction of Artistic Director Michelle Karst, will host auditions for the spring 2009 season today, Dec. 11.
If planning to audition, you are asked to sign up on the Florida Players bulletin board in the Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion. Audition times begin at 6 p.m. in G-15 [...]
Iona R. Malanchuk, associate university librarian and head of the Education Library at the University of Florida, recently was named an awardee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times “I Love My Librarian Award.” Malanchuk is one of 10 librarians nationally recognized.
Each of the 10 award winners will receive a $5,000 cash award, [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — University of Florida student Alex Aime has created a video as part of a Doritos Super Bowl contest. Aime, senior sports management/businss administration major, hopes to win the opportunity to have the video air as a Doritos commerical during the Super Bowl.
The commercial may be viewed at http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/video/1883/. The number of views [...]