Florida Alternative Breaks (FAB) is looking for student participants for its spring break trips. FAB offers week-long trips of community service. For more information, visit http://www.leadershipandservice.ufl.edu/studentorgs/fab/.
The annual Hearts for the Holidays program, presented by Friends for Life of America, will provide an opportunity for University of Florida students, faculty and staff to make holiday cards for pediatric cancer patients. Card-making stations will be located at Turlington Plaza and the Reitz Student Union Colonnade from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Dec. [...]
Each day we are fortunate to wake up and go to work for one of the largest, most-respected public universities in the country – filled with students who infuse this campus with their energy and optimism. And as our friends up north will soon be reminding us, you cannot beat the weather.
What a wonderful [...]
With retailers bracing for a slow holiday shopping season, a new University of Florida survey suggests consumers are claiming to be more optimistic this year; exactly six dollars more optimistic. That’s how much more consumers surveyed in Florida expect to spend this year.
The University of Florida carillon is nestled atop perhaps one of the most iconic sites on campus – Century Tower. At the top of each hour and at 12:35 p.m. each weekday, the carillon’s bells and chimes resonate throughout campus.
In its 30 years at UF, the carillon has transitioned from the center of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida ornithologists are preparing to digitize nearly all of UF’s analog bird-sound field recordings, one of the largest collections in the Western Hemisphere with 23,650 cataloged recordings representing about 3,000 species.
Dr. Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute, was quoted in a Nov. 18 Chicago Tribune story about the difficulty of finding the source of E. coli outbreaks.