GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, through its new Division of Multimedia Properties, will expand National Public Radio programming on WUFT-FM and its affiliate station, WJUF-FM, beginning Aug. 3.
The change is part of an overall commitment to expanded national and local news and public affairs coverage to better serve the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida football team is preparing to hold its second annual Gator Charity Challenge event at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The fundraiser, which was initiated prior to the 2008 season, will feature the 2009 Gator football players challenging each other in a series [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded the University of Florida nearly $1 million for a new master’s program that will train students to assist impoverished populations through sustainable development.
UF is among just 10 universities worldwide chosen to share $7.6 million in seed money for the creation of master’s [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The annual Independence Day Eve celebration, Fanfares & Fireworks, will not take place this year. A WUFT news release dated March 1, offered the following information.
Deep budget cuts passed by the Florida Legislature have resulted in reduced funding for public broadcasting stations WUFT-TV, Channel 5, WUFT-DT, Digital 5, WUFT-FM, Classic 89 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Anna Prizzia, the former outreach coordinator of the University of Florida’s Office of Sustainability, has been named the new director, Ed Poppell, vice president for business affairs, announced today.
“My goal is to bring to life the vision for sustainability that we crafted with our campus community,” said Prizzia. “We have all [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will hold a ground-breaking ceremony at 9 a.m. on July 13 for a new building to be constructed at UF’s Eastside Campus, 2124 NE Waldo Rd. The ceremony is being coordinated by UF’s Community Relations and Facilities and Planning offices.
Speakers will include President Bernie Machen, as well [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Museum of Natural History botanist and herbarium curator Norris Williams has won the Smithsonian Institution’s prestigious José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany for his 40-year career studying orchids.
The award is given annually to a botanist and scholar of international stature who has made significant contributions to the field of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Asset Management has designed a new Web site for University of Florida staff and faculty to post unneeded or unwanted items. Supplies such as reams of paper, print toner, keyboards and monitors maybe be posted or found on the online supply swap site.
The new Web site allows users to manage office [...]
Richard Lamont, Ph.D., a professor in the UF College of Dentistry Department of Oral Biology, recently received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an honor bestowed on less than 5 percent of NIH-funded investigators.
The highly selective NIH MERIT Award (Method to Extend Research in Time) recognizes researchers who have demonstrated [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Seven years ago, the Armenian government banned the popular TV station A1+. Starting June 30, a former A1+ reporter will spend six weeks gaining experience in emerging digital fields at the U.S. Department of State-funded Study of the U.S. Institute on Journalism and Media hosted by the University of Florida.
Seda Muradyan, director [...]