GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A test of the UF Alert text message system on Friday was a success, university officials said.
Eight minutes and two seconds elapsed from the time a University Police Department dispatcher sent the text message until the last batch of messages left Blackboard Connect, the text message service provider. A total of 61,475 [...]
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Recently, the University of Florida’s Department of Agricultural Education and Communication has been identified as the leading department of its kind in the nation.
A research team at The Ohio State University conducted a national survey of agricultural education department chairs to rank the top-10 departments. UF’s Department of Agricultural Education and [...]
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Architects and staff members from two architectural firms will visit the University of Florida campus next week to start the master planning process for the future of the Reitz Student Union.
Gould Evans Architects of Tampa will work with WTW Architects of Pittsburgh, Pa., to learn how the 42-year-old building can [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will conduct another test of its emergency notification system on Friday in an effort to improve on the results from Wednesday’s test.
A test message will be sent to students, faculty and staff via only text messaging during normal business hours on Friday. There will be no e-mail or [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Fall 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series at the University of Florida continues Tuesday with a lecture by Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for Time magazine.
Grunwald will present “The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise,” at 7 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. It is free [...]
Dr. Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute, was quoted in an Oct. 22 St. Petersburg Times story about the safety of the swine flu vaccine. His opinion also was cited in an Oct. 24 editorial.
Michael Conlon, interim director of biomedical informatics, was quoted in an Oct. 21 Associated Press story about a federal stimulus grant that will be used to create a Facebook-style networking system to link biomedical researchers. The story was the result of a Health Science Center news release.
Philip Williams, director of the Center for Latin American Studies, was quoted in an Oct. 19 Arizona Republic story about the growing role of clergy in the discussion of immigration reform.
Economist David Denslow was quoted in an Oct. 17 Miami Herald story about Florida’s persistent high unemployment rate, which hit 11 percent in September.