University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida student has received one of only 150 worldwide scholarships to attend Apple Inc.’s sold-out Worldwide Developers Conference.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Lastinger Center recently joined a multi-organization, multiyear effort that includes Duval County Public Schools, the Jaguar Foundation and Teach for America to turn around the state’s lowest-ranked high school, Andrew Jackson H.S.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors can explore an ancient Mayan civilization and culture in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s newest temporary exhibit, “An Early Maya City by the Sea: Daily Life and Ritual at Cerros, Belize,” opening Saturday.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The time may have come to scrub the idea that brain plaque — deposits of protein that clog passages between brain cells — might not be all that bad.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida team has received national recognition for creating a vanguard online program that helps new employees transition to campus work life.

GAINESVILE, Fla. — After a nationwide search, David E. Kratzer has been selected as vice president for student affairs at the University of Florida, Provost Joe Glover announced Friday.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have described a new extinct giant turtle species from the same Colombian mine where they discovered Titanoboa – and one of the only animals the world’s largest snake could not have eaten.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Before July 1 when the new fiscal year begins, the University of Florida must reduce its budget by more than $38 million. Deans of the university’s academic units and other administrators have been vetting proposals with faculty and staff for several weeks. Their proposals are now available through a link on the UF home page at http://www.ufl.edu/budget-proposals/.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a University of Florida professor $1.25 million to study factors affecting political stability in the African Sahel, the region south of the Sahara Desert.