UF Photography has created a multimedia presentation on the Gator Marching Band and its preparation and performance at the BCS National Championship. This five-minute presentation follows the band for five days prior to the game, and includes photos and audio interviews to show all the work that goes into a National Championship performance. The presentation [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians inched up one point to 68 in January despite worse than expected holiday retail sales and the state being tied for 10th place in the percentage of unemployed workers, a new University of Florida study finds.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has named nationally acclaimed Pennsylvania State University professor Clay Calvert as an eminent scholar in mass communication, Dean John Wright has announced.
In this role — UF’s highest faculty level — Calvert will teach media law at the graduate and undergraduate level, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s avocado industry, the nation’s second-largest, could lose millions of dollars if a new disease reaches the state’s southern tip, according to University of Florida experts.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida President Bernie Machen and his wife, Chris, will discuss their recent trip to Iran at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Pugh Hall Ocora on UF’s campus.
In November, Machen was one of six U.S. research university presidents, including presidents from Carnegie Mellon and Cornell, to visit several Iranian [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twenty-five internationally-known scientists will gather at the 11th Biennial Free Radical Underground Symposium to discuss the latest findings in important health-related topics linked to muscle wasting and weakness. The conference, hosted by the University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance will be held Jan. 22-23, at the Reitz Student Union.
“Researchers [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — While hitting its 30th anniversary mark this year, Florida’s Master Gardener program has another reason to party: Its volunteers recently reached a milestone, logging more than 5 million hours since the program began.
University of Florida police say a former Mobile Campus employee confessed Wednesday night to sending the cryptic “monkey” text message that thousands of UF students and employees received a day earlier.
The man’s name is being withheld because he has not been charged. Police say they are working with the State Attorney’s Office and expect to [...]
Alexander C. Wagenaar, a professor of epidemiology and health policy, was quoted in a Jan. 20 New York Times story about his research into how higher taxes on alcohol can greatly reduce drinking by many types of drinkers. The story was the result of a Health Science Center news release.