University of Florida News

Tickets are on sale now for the Nov. 29 performance of the band O.A.R. at the O’Connell Center.

The Alachua County Youth Orchestra will help kick off the holiday season with its annual winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27 in the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida.

The English Society, a student-run organization in the Department of English, is accepting submissions for its literary magazine “Tea”
through Dec. 31.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Translation Program will host Everette Jordan, the director of the National Virtual Translation Center, on Thursday.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will hold two workshops and one public hearing on the campus master plan during the next month.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Darren Rovell, sports business reporter for ESPN, will visit the University of Florida as a guest of the newly formed Gator Sport Management Club at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Florida Gym, Room 230. He will address University of Florida sport management students on the topic of “Sports Business: A Two Hundred Billion Dollar Game.”

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Pride Student Union will host its fourth Annual Intercollegiate Pride Conference Nov. 18-20 to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s landmark musical, “Oklahoma!,” will play at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts for one night only, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25. A performance discussion will be held at 6:45 p.m.

The University of Florida ranks fourth in the United States among the Best Places to Work in Academia, according to a new survey by The Scientist magazine.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Department of Astronomy will host a special open house at the Campus Teaching Observatory from 8:30 to 11 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, to celebrate Mars’ closest approach for the next 13 years.