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InsideUF: November 10, 2009

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Princeton University history professor will speak Monday on the University of Florida campus about “Jewish Books and Christian Readers in Early Modern Europe.”
Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, is a cultural historian of Renaissance Europe. His lecture starts at [...]

University of Florida officials are monitoring Tropical Depression Ida.
Forecasters currently expect the storm to have little effect on the Gainesville area and plans currently call for UF work activities to remain on a normal schedule. Should the storm’s predicted track change or should forecast conditions for the Gainesville area worsen, new information will be posted [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Players, the University of Florida’s student-run theatre group, continues its fall 2009 showcase season with Martin McDonagh’s terrifying and funny The Pillowman on Nov. 6, 7 and 8, in the Phillips Center Squitieri Studio Theatre, formerly the Black Box Theatre.
In a totalitarian police state, acclaimed writer Katurian is brought in for [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida School of Music will celebrate the 195 birthday of the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, with a concert of saxophone music at 12:50 p.m. on Nov. 6 in the University Auditorium.
Adolphe Sax, the son of a Belgian musical instrument maker, was born on Nov. 6, 1814. His [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mobile phone users can now make a donation to the University of Florida’s Florida Opportunity Scholars program from their seat in The Swamp, from their tailgate party in the parking lot, from their car, home, or anywhere mobile phone service is available. This Saturday’s (Nov. 7) game versus the Vanderbilt University will [...]

For more information, please visit Environmental Health & Safety’s Web site, www.ehs.ufl.edu/H1N1.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Student Health Care Center expects to begin administering H1N1 vaccines to students on Wednesday, Nov. 4. At this time, there will be 800 vaccines available free of cost for healthy people under age 25.
These vaccines are in nasal mist form. Pregnant women and people with chronic medical conditions [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Michael G. Perri has been named dean of the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, effective Nov. 6.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An award-winning composer and the leader of the largest astrophysics experiment in the world will come together Sunday for the Florida premiere of “Einstein’s Cosmic Messengers,” an inventive multimedia concert.
This concert will feature Andrea Centazzo, composer, percussionist, and multimedia artist, and University of Florida professor of physics David Reitze, head of the [...]