GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida Players, the University of Florida’s student-run theater company, continues to move at full throttle with the final installment of its fall 2006 season, “30 Neo-Futurists Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.”
The holiday season is a time for carols, cookies, candlelight and the annual University of Florida School of Music’s Sounds of the Season concert. This year’s event, which features performances by the University Choir, Women’s Chorale and Men’s Glee Club, gets under way at 6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 3, at the University Auditorium. After the concert, guests are invited to light a candle and join a procession to the Reitz Student Union, where there will be singing of carols, a tree lighting ceremony and refreshments.
University of Florida Department of Journalism Chair William McKeen joined Bill Clinton, Al Gore and scientists, engineers and Web masters earlier this month in being named a Fellow by the World Technology Network at its San Francisco summit.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Center of Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology (CERHB) has a new home in Progress Corporate Park in Alachua. The university dedicated a 46,000-square-foot educational and manufacturing facility Nov. 15.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Board of Governors gave its unanimous approval to a proposed University of Florida program that would improve the UF undergraduate educational experience by hiring 200 additional faculty members and 100 academic advisers.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Among American teenagers, the leading cause of death is motor vehicle injury. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control estimate 34 percent of all adolescent deaths result from motor vehicle accidents.
“Hairspray,” Broadway’s musical comedy phenomenon, is coming to the Phillips Center for two 7:30 p.m. performances Dec. 5 and 6. After its acclaimed world premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre in June 2002, the fantastically fun musical opened on Broadway in August 2002 to rave reviews, winning eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida leaders and Gov. Jeb Bush Wednesday officially opened an $84.5 million campus facility that integrates much of the university’s cancer and genetics research.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s related to okra, is officially a hibiscus and tastes a lot like cranberry.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Mort Rosenblum, visiting professor from the Department of Journalism at the University of Arizona, will speak on “Understanding International Issues and Why the Media Fails Us” at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 16, in the New Physics Building 1001.