GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The American Association of Museums recently announced that the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is among 14 museums to earn the highest national recognition a museum can achieve.
This is the second time the Harn has gone through the accreditation process, after first receiving accreditation in 1997. AAM [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida has become the first American institution to receive funding from the European Union to establish a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on campus.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Members of the Parsons Dance company will immerse themselves in the Gainesville community Wednesday through Friday for outreach activities in conjunction with their public performance Friday.
On Wednesday, members will participate in “AIM Together,” an initiative that brings artists from the University of Florida Performing Arts season into Shands hospitals and clinics to [...]
A book reading and panel discussion on black women’s hip-hop and dance hall culture will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 in Ustler Hall.
In recent controversies involving issues of gender and sexuality within hip-hop and dance hall music, little has been said by and about the female writers, producers, and performers’ own representation and [...]
The daily live carillon performance at the University of Florida’s Century Tower will ring a special note today in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The 12:35 p.m. performance will commence with Ben Wasmuth playing a John Courter composition “In Memoriam – September 11, 2001”.
Courter, who was college carilloneur at Berea [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.— The University of Florida Speech and Hearing Clinic has added a new off-campus facility at 1405 N.W. 13th St. The full-service audiology clinic offers diagnostics and rehabilitation, including the selection and fitting of hearing aids and assistive listening devices.
The Speech and Hearing Clinic has operated for more than 40 years in historic Dauer [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gainesville’s annual Good Deed Mitzvah Marathon on Tuesday will commemorate the victims of Sept. 11 in Turlington Plaza on the University of Florida campus.
The Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center and the Chabad-Lubavitch Student Group are sponsoring the event to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11. It will run from 11 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Legendary Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd will take the Gator Growl stage this year and bring its “Swamp Music” to the Gator Nation.
The decision to bring Skynyrd is part of a greater effort by Gator Growl at the University of Florida to return the show to its family-friendly, pep rally beginnings. “Not [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Harn Museum of Art is showcasing some of the world’s best-known photographers this fall in its upcoming photography gallery installation and a large temporary exhibition of 20th-century photography in its main exhibition hall.
Beginning Tuesday, “Highlights from the Photography Collection” will feature 38 photographs by 26 photographers, with a focus on 19th [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Nursing has expanded its class size and will add faculty members through a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs designed to address the nation’s severe nursing shortage.
UF was one of four universities the VA recently selected to form the VA Nursing Academy, a [...]