University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida student has received one of only 150 worldwide scholarships to attend Apple Inc.’s sold-out Worldwide Developers Conference.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Lastinger Center recently joined a multi-organization, multiyear effort that includes Duval County Public Schools, the Jaguar Foundation and Teach for America to turn around the state’s lowest-ranked high school, Andrew Jackson H.S.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Visitors can explore an ancient Mayan civilization and culture in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s newest temporary exhibit, “An Early Maya City by the Sea: Daily Life and Ritual at Cerros, Belize,” opening Saturday.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida team has received national recognition for creating a vanguard online program that helps new employees transition to campus work life.

GAINESVILE, Fla. — After a nationwide search, David E. Kratzer has been selected as vice president for student affairs at the University of Florida, Provost Joe Glover announced Friday.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Before July 1 when the new fiscal year begins, the University of Florida must reduce its budget by more than $38 million. Deans of the university’s academic units and other administrators have been vetting proposals with faculty and staff for several weeks. Their proposals are now available through a link on the UF home page at http://www.ufl.edu/budget-proposals/.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida professor will participate in an interactive webinar discussion Thursday on how shared use could improve community health and combat childhood obesity.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.— This summer the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida will explore the thought-provoking work of artists living and working around Gainesville.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, part of the College of Fine Arts, has been awarded a $30,500 grant from the Parkinson Research Foundation to conduct research on the effects of dance on Parkinson’s disease.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Coming this fall, University of Florida student organizations will have the opportunity to adopt a conservation area to help clean and protect ecosystems and biodiversity right on campus.