GAINESVILLE, Fla. — This year, all Gator graduates will be “green” graduates.
Inspired by the carbon neutral 2009-2010 Gator athletic season, the O’Connell Center and the University of Florida continue to make strides toward the university goal of carbon neutrality by offsetting the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the University Auditorium and the O’Connell [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shoppers rushing to take advantage of home and appliance rebates caused Florida’s consumer confidence to spike in April by six points to 77 despite the state’s record unemployment, according to a new University of Florida survey.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — On May 1, Amy Long will walk across the stage at the Phillip’s Center for the Performing Arts to accept her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. Just a year later, she plans to earn her master’s degree with the ultimate goal of becoming an urban planner for a Florida city.
Long [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thanks to the Florida Opportunity Scholars Program, Jessica Amato will become a teacher, and she’s graduating without student loans.
Amato, 21, will receive a degree in elementary education from the University of Florida on May 1. She is among the first class of 189 Florida Opportunity Scholars to graduate. Commencement ceremonies at UF [...]
GAINESVILLE, Florida — The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 33 faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2010-2013.
The recognition goes to faculty members who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields.
The UFRF professors were recommended by their [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It pays to keep employees who are good friends side by side in the workplace, suggests a University of Florida study that finds pals often help each other by working closely on a job but can reduce productivity if they labor in separate departments.
Today is a test of UFAlert text and email emergency notification systems. This UF home page notification is posted in conjunction with the test. If this were an actual emergency, updates and additional information on the situation would be provided on the university’s home page.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jerald T. Milanich, contributing editor at Archaeology magazine and curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Milanich is among 229 new fellows who join one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a center for [...]
Wayne Archer, executive director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies, was quoted in an April 19 South Florida Sun-Sentinel story about South Florida’s condo market.