Given the growing concern about personal safety in the workplace and the community, the Office of Human Resource Services, working in concert with the University Police Department and the University of Florida Counseling Center, will hold a workshop titled “Safe Campus, Safe Community:Creating a Violence-Free Workplace” on Dec. 4. The session will be held at [...]
A week of Martin Luther King Jr. events, sponsored by the Black Graduate Student Organization, are scheduled for Jan. 14 to 20. Events will include a special speaker, campus-wide town-hall forum, candlelight celebration, Gatorship leadership/diversity retreat, alternative break weekend trips focused on low-income housing and environmental preservation, and a panel, “How the election of Barack [...]
Kristy Hyland is from Melbourne, Australia, but walks around the University of Florida campus at a New York City clip – a surprising pace, considering she is legally blind.
“I like to get where I’m going,” she said.
Going places seems to be a theme of Hyland’s life. Before beginning at UF, she traveled around the United [...]
University of Florida head soccer coach Becky Burleigh recently was named the Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year. This is the third such honor, following previously earning the designation in 1996 and 2000. In 2008, UF won its third consecutive — and ninth overall — SEC title. Burleigh has been coach since the program began [...]
The Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies has appointed Tim Becker as director. Becker holds a degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida and an MBA from Florida Gulf Coast University, where he served as an adjunct professor in real estate. His experience also includes working as director of commercial development for the [...]
UF architecture graduate students Cristina Villanueva-Meyer and Javier Fornaris recently won first-place awards in the international design competition during the 25th annual Encounter of Latin American Students of Architecture (ELEA) in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Villanueva-Meyer and Fornaris presented design projects completed this summer in the UF School of Architecture’s Studio Mexico Program. The projects emphasized [...]
John Harvey has been named executive associate dean of the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine.
Harvey was a founding member of the UF veterinary college’s faculty in 1974 and has served as chairman of the college’s department of physiological sciences since 1995.
Harvey replaces James Thompson, who held the post of executive associate dean since [...]
A flurry of snowflakes canvasses the sky around Century Tower and University Auditorium while white Christmas lights illuminate each building’s outline.
This magical winter-wonderland scene may be viewed on University of Florida-themed holiday e-cards.
For the second year in a row, Gators may spread holiday cheer with e-cards that are available online at www.identity.ufl.edu/gatorNation/cards.html.
This year’s cards feature [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twelve University of Florida communication students will showcase their photographs and stories Dec. 9 at the opening of “Guatemala In Words and Pictures” at “the gallery” in the Reitz Student Union.
Undergraduate and graduate students teamed up to document hunger and malnutrition in the Zacapa region as part of the College of Journalism [...]
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) seeks not only to be nationally competitive, but to be a global leader in teaching, research, and service, as a few examples below illustrate.
Area Studies — CLAS is home to area studies programs focused on Europe Africa Studies, Asia Studies, and is a major contributor to UF’s [...]