GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Don Sweat, the recently retired Florida Sea Grant marine extension agent for a multi-county region on the state’s west coast, has been awarded the national William Q. Wick Visionary Career Leadership Award in recognition of his career achievements in Sea Grant Extension.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gleaning, the age-old practice of collecting discarded crops from harvested fields, is getting new attention as a way for volunteers to supply soup kitchens and other charities with low-cost food.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Police Department has released a composite sketch of one of the suspects in Tuesday’s armed robbery of the UF Bookstore buy-back tent near Carleton Auditorium.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History today launched a new online butterfly identification guide to help visitors identify the different species in the Butterfly Rainforest exhibit.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two men robbed the UF Bookstore book buy-back tent near Carleton Auditorium at about 10:30 a.m. today, the University of Florida Police Department reported.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Renowned futurist, author and inventor Ray Kurzweil, called the “restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, will speak Jan. 12 at the University of Florida.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dec. 31 is the deadline for collectors to register to display their valuables at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s 32nd annual Collectors Day Jan. 22.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When Gemma Spofforth came to the University of Florida in the fall of 2006 to swim, her career goals were still undecided.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. —Thomasenia Adams, a University of Florida professor in mathematics education, has graduated from a prominent national leadership institute for women professors and administrators.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s “Country 103.7 – The Gator” invites the community to log on to http://www.Country1037TheGator.com to vote on one of three possible logos to brand the new radio station.