University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UF cancer researchers have garnered more than $2.1 million in state research funding through a new legislative appropriation.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — On Dec. 2, 2006, after sitting down with her husband Steve to watch a Gator football game on television, Joyce Pokorny, 43, suffered a fatal heart attack.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The abundance and variety of books available to the average American student is unfathomable to children in Uganda, who leave school as early as fourth grade to work in the fields.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In celebration of Black History Month, the Black Student Union at the University of Florida presents the 18th Annual Florida Invitational Step Show at 7 p.m. Saturday at the O’Connell Center.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Road Map to Graduate and Professional Schools,” a program geared toward ethnic minority students who are sophomores and juniors at the University of Florida, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 3 at UF’s Reitz Student Union Rion Ballroom.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Derald Wing Sue, a leading figure in multicultural psychology and counseling, will appear Feb. 21 at the University of Florida as the first speaker in the Provost’s Diversity Speakers Series.

GAINESVILLE, FL –– Chu-Fang Huang, winner of the 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition, will perform at 4 p.m. Feb. 25 at University Auditorium.

Notable concert performances coupled with issue-oriented programs highlight February’s Black History Month at the University of Florida. “Our Cultural Anthology: The Missing Chapters” is the theme for the 29th annual event sponsored by the Black Student Union.

Equipped with the skills of a senior academic, government and private-firm lawyer, Jamie Lewis Keith comes to the University of Florida’s general counsel’s office experienced in leading a major university’s law team.

Here’s the print version of InsideUF for February 13, 2007.