GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Since 2003, between 200,000 and 400,000 people in Darfur, Sudan, have been killed and another 2.5 million have been displaced from their destroyed villages to face hunger, thirst, illness, rape and death.
The U.S. has recognized the Sudanese government’s attacks on primarily non-Arab African groups as genocide, and humanitarian organizations around [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s always better to give than to receive — but receiving national recognition for giving back to the community is pretty nice, too.
Learn and Serve America, a program under the Corporation for National and Community Service, has awarded the University of Florida a spot on the 2008 President’s Higher Education [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — WUFT-FM Classic 89 and WJUF-FM Nature Coast 90 will celebrate 20 years of annual fundraising on Sunday March 1. The event will include silent and live auctions, artwork, culinary treats and a wine tasting from 1 to 4 p.m. in the University of Florida’s Reitz Union Grand Ballroom.
Hosted by public radio stations [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The 2008-2009 University of Florida Bateman Team, a team of UF Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) members will partner with The College Bound Aid Program to host the Code Breakers Bash, the culminating event of “Crack the Codes… Challenge: Accepted” contest, from 1:50 to 2:40 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the leading legal thinkers of our time, Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar, will speak on “Bush, Gore, Florida and the Constitution” on March 24 at the Levin College of Law as the Dunwody Distinguished Lecturer in Law.
As President Bush’s term ends, Amar will discuss the case that began [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Spring 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series continues its environmental theme Wednesday with a presentation by University of Florida associate professor of history Jack E. Davis. The theme for this semester is “Florida, Water, and the Environment,” and includes talks by policy leaders, journalists and academics.
Davis will speak at [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The department of tourism, recreation and sport management at the University of Florida is offering students a rare opportunity to study abroad in Antarctica, the coldest, driest, highest, quietest, most remote and least understood continent on Earth.
“Very few opportunities exist for college students to engage in experiential education in Antarctica,” said [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eastside High School’s Students Together for Autism Research, also called STAR, will host the 2nd Annual Autism Awareness 5K Walk-Run on Feb. 28.
All proceeds will go to the University of Florida Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, also known as CARD.
The event will begin at 9 a.m. at [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida officials are making every effort to notify more than 97,200 people that an intruder gained access to a computer system containing files with their personal information.
The files included the names and Social Security numbers of students, faculty and staff who used the “Grove” computer system between 1996 and 2009. [...]
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