College of Design, Construction & Planning's co-Lab redefines classroom
Published: November 30 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Forget everything you know about the classroom.
Published: November 30 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Forget everything you know about the classroom.
Published: November 30 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students looking for a way to unwind during finals can head to the Reitz Student Union for the De-Stress Study Fest.
Published: November 30 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As global temperatures continue to rise at an accelerated rate due to deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, natural stores of carbon in the Arctic are cause for serious concern, researchers say.
Published: November 29 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The consumer confidence index among Floridians remained at 65 in November, a ranking that matches a revised mark set in October and is only six points higher than the record low of 59 set in June 2008.
Published: November 29 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida broke ground today for a new data center on its East Campus today and marked the progress that has taken place at the site over the past six years.
Published: November 28 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Common Reading Program at the University of Florida will unveil the 2012- 2013 selection at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Plaza of the Americas.
Published: November 28 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida has received $1.1 million to offer behavioral health training to colleagues in three Indian cities and increase research opportunities between the university and Indian partners.
Published: November 23 2011
Notice of public meetings
Published: November 23 2011
Notice of public meeting
Published: November 22 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Seniors in the University of Florida’s department of environmental engineering sciences could have taken the easy way out and tackled a more traditional assignment as their graduation capstone project, but they didn’t. Instead, they are designing waste management systems to be used by two cities in a developing nation.
Published: November 22 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — She spent Thanksgiving with friends in Cedar Key that year, eating dinner and watching as a few of the men put up walls in the house being built on the land. But it was the call she received as they drove home across the Cedar Key bridge that Debbie Labud will always remember.
Published: November 21 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Public radio stations Florida’s 89.1 WUFT-FM and WJUF-FM 90.1, part of the University of Florida, celebrated WUFT’s 30th anniversary by completing the most successful listener membership campaign in the history of the stations.
Published: November 21 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Museum visitors may now learn about some of the University of Florida's most interesting global discoveries and research - from how to free whales entangled in lobster traps to how plants will grow in space.
Published: November 18 2011
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Published: November 17 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors to the Florida Museum of Natural History can see a magnified view of dozens of specimens and artifacts in the new exhibit, “Depth of Field: Museum Specimens Up-close.”
Published: November 17 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will be among 78 universities across the country that will participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2011 Game Day Challenge on Saturday.
Published: November 17 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will be among 78 universities across the country that will participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2011 Game Day Challenge on Saturday.
Published: November 16 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida announced today that a UF College of Medicine alumnus and his wife have made a significant contribution that will establish a center for primary care education and fuel the university’s plan to build a new medical education building.
Published: November 16 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle and the rest of the iconic characters from "My Fair Lady" will transport theatregoers back to 1912 London in this Broadway classic, produced by Big League Productions Inc. at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 23 at the University of Florida’s Phillips Center for Performing Arts.
Published: November 16 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Century Tower will glow blue on Friday night to raise awareness about diabetes.
Published: November 15 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Luma Mufleh, subject of a book University of Florida freshmen were asked to read this year, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Reitz Student Union Grand Ballroom.
Published: November 15 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Some endangered animals may live in smaller habitats than scientists realize, leading to inflated estimates of their ability to survive, according to a new University of Florida study.
Published: November 15 2011
Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout Thursday, with events in the atrium at Shands at UF medical center and elsewhere on campus.
Published: November 15 2011
Kids should think twice before picking on early maturing girls or late maturing boys in their class. A new University of Florida study links violent conduct in schools to some students’ timing in puberty.
Published: November 14 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Technology-minded entrepreneurs will gather this week for special training in a Technology Entrepreneur BootCamp organized by the University of Florida Office of Technology Licensing and UF Tech Connect.
Published: November 14 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ellen Cornfield, a New York choreographer and dancer, and a longtime member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, is spending this week in residency at the University of Florida School of Theatre + Dance.
Published: November 14 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla.– LiveVibe TV kicks off Season 3 with “WHAT’S HAPNAN? Arts & Sciences in the Digital Age” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Digital World Institute’s REVE, located in Norman Gym.
Published: November 10 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A large clinical study of painful jaw problems commonly known as TMD disorders has revealed a wide range of findings, including how women apparently grow more vulnerable to the condition as they age.
Published: November 10 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Former Gov. Reubin Askew, the leader who guided Florida through the civil rights era into the modern age, will speak Nov. 14 at the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service in an exclusive session looking at his life and legacy.
Published: November 10 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Former Gov. Reubin Askew, the leader who guided Florida through the civil rights era into the modern age, will speak Nov. 14 at the University of Florida's Bob Graham Center for Public Service in an exclusive session looking at his life and legacy.
Published: November 10 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Provident Resources Group and Capstone Companies hosted a grand-opening ceremony Thursday for The Continuum, a housing community designed for University of Florida graduate/professional students, faculty and staff.
Published: November 10 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — At Wednesday’s Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Awards, University of Florida Performing Arts was named 2011 Best Overall Small Business.
Published: November 9 2011
You should keep washing those tomatoes before you cut and eat them. But a new University of Florida study shows that still won’t guarantee the tomatoes won’t contain the bacteria that cause the most food-borne illness in humans, salmonella.
Published: November 9 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Food-safety experts have long believed that Salmonella bacteria could only enter tomatoes through wounds in the stem or fruit — but a new University of Florida laboratory study shows it can also happen another way.
Published: November 9 2011
Published: November 9 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, known as SPOHP, will commemorate Veterans Day in Starke on Friday.
Published: November 8 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida education researchers will lead a $5 million effort, funded by the National Science Foundation, to transform how science is taught in Florida’s middle schools, with high-need schools in 20 mostly rural school districts serving as the testing grounds.
Published: November 8 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida archaeology professor Ken Sassaman will give a lecture on the ancient wonders of the northern Florida Gulf Coast at 4 p.m. Nov. 10 at Oak Hammock.
Published: November 7 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Scientific experts focusing their research on Florida’s changing climate will gather next week at the University of Florida for a two-day event that features panel discussions, poster sessions, and keynote speakers.
Published: November 7 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History is expanding its popular "A for Science" program statewide.
Published: November 3 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – To a geologist, an outcrop is part of the bedrock extending continuously for tens of miles beneath the Earth’s surface that has become exposed and is visible on the surface.
Published: November 3 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers are developing a gene therapy technique that could help both humans and horses fight osteoarthritis, a debilitating condition that causes inflammation and deterioration of the joints. The goal is to create a one-time treatment that works long term.
Published: November 2 2011
Published: November 2 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Members of the University of Florida’s Students in Free Enterprise are helping Gainesville residents find jobs and get hired.
Published: November 1 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Harn Museum of Art Local Artist Trunk Show offers an opportunity for visitors to purchase distinctive jewelry, ceramics, paintings, photography and other works by local artists, whose work is currently for sale in the Harn Museum of Art Store.
Published: November 1 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida's chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America was named the outstanding chapter in the nation at the 2011 F.H. Teahan National Chapter Awards ceremony last month.
Published: November 21 2011
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in an Oct. 22 CNBC.com article about the end of the boom in initial public offerings due to the economy.
Published: November 8 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Munich Symphony Orchestra will be joined by principal guest conductor Philippe Entremont and the Gloriae Dei Cantores Choir for a special performance of Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Phillips Center for Performing Arts.
Published: November 21 2011
Audiologist Patricia Kricos was quoted in an Oct. 23 New York Times story about the installation of hearing loops in public places to improve the sound quality of hearing aids.
Published: November 21 2011
Phil Williams, director of the Center for Latin American Studies, was quoted in an Oct. 7 News Service of Florida story about the lack of laws in Florida allowing for children of illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition.
Published: November 21 2011
David Griffis, director of the Cooperative Extension Service in Volusia County, and horticulture professor Jonathan Crane were quoted in an Oct. 22 Orlando Sentinel story about laurel wilt disease infecting trees throughout Florida.
Published: November 21 2011
David Griffis, director of the Cooperative Extension Service in Volusia County, and horticulture professor Jonathan Crane were quoted in an Oct. 22 Orlando Sentinel story about laurel wilt disease infecting trees throughout Florida.
Published: November 21 2011
Scott Tomar, a dental public health professor, was quoted in an Oct. 9 St. Petersburg Times story about opposition to adding fluoride to drinking water in Pinellas County.
Published: November 29 2011
UFPD is investigating a report of a sexual battery on campus. For more information go to www.police.ufl.edu
Published: November 21 2011
Finance professor Jay Ritter was quoted in an Oct. 6 Washington Post article about how economic growth and stock market growth are not always on the same track.