GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Undergraduate students from the University of Florida will present research on health policy at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Pugh Hall Ocora in a discussion hosted by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
The Politics of Health Policy’s three discussion panels will cover international health care issues at 2 p.m., federal and [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida President Bernie Machen and his wife, Chris, pledged today a donation equal to the president’s $285,000 annual bonus for a scholarship program for students who may not otherwise get the opportunity to attend college.
Machen told the university’s Board of Trustees during its quarterly meeting of his intentions to give [...]
The University of Florida Gators claimed their eighth SEC football title today after a 31-20 victory over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the championship game in Atlanta.
To view a photo slideshow presentation of the football victory, click here: http://www.urel.ufl.edu/production/photography/multimedia.html
More UF football news is available at http://www.gatorzone.com/.
Gainesville, Fla. — Public television station WUFT-TV is celebrating 50 years of broadcasting to 16 counties in North Central Florida (21 via cable). To honor the milestone, Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and political editor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, will give a special presentation at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. [...]
Visit http://www.urel.ufl.edu/production/photography/multimedia.html after 4 p.m. for a professional photo slideshow of today’s SEC pre-game festivities. On Saturday, an updated slideshow will provide images from the game.
The 2008 SEC Championship Game at the Georgia Dome tomorrow between the Florida Gators and Alabama Crimson Tide will determine the 2008 football champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). To [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Margaret Werth, author and University of Delaware associate professor of art history, will give a lecture at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20 at the Harn Museum of Art during Museum Nights.
Titled “Modernity and the Face,” the lecture will feature discussion of her current project, a book studying representations of the human face in painting, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida teams received $10,000 grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop sustainability projects at opposite ends of the Earth: improving a reservoir that purifies stored rainfall for the village of Sissene, Burkina Faso, in Western Africa and measuring cellulosic ethanol production made from Florida pine forests.
The grants [...]
Here’s the print version of InsideUF for December 2, 2008.
This year, the University of Florida will include Jan. 2, 2009 as part of the regular December and New Year holidays. This addition will allow reduced energy consumption for a total of 11 days, resulting in significant cost savings for the university.
Some “essential personnel” will be required to work during the holiday period. Questions should [...]
The entry deadline for the university-wide Golden Gator communication awards program has been extended from Dec. 1 to Dec. 8. For more program details, visit http://ufcn.urel.ufl.edu/goldengators/index.shtml.