GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Spring semester parking decals will go on sale beginning Dec. 3, providing students with the opportunity to purchase their decals before they leave campus for the holiday break.
Students who wait to buy their decals when they return in January may experience unnecessary urgency and long lines. Additionally, since there is no [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Paleontology Division is looking for volunteers to assist with fossil collecting at a major site discovered in 2005 in a limestone quarry northeast of Newberry.
The fossil dig began in October and will continue until Dec. 20. Volunteers are needed seven days a week between the [...]
GAINVESVILLE, Fla. — Racial integration at the University of Florida came after years of struggle. In September 1958, George Starke Jr. became the first African American at UF admitted to the College of Law, and seven black students enrolled in the undergraduate program in 1962. Today, UF’s student body reflects the diversity of the state as well as the world.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gatorade inventor Dr. Robert Cade drinks his favorite flavor of the sports drink during a dedication of a historic marker recognizing the birthplace of Gatorade at the University of Florida on Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. The marker is located near the O’Connell Center. Cade invented the world’s best-selling sports drink for the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The associate dean of student affairs in the University of Florida College of Engineering is one of fewer than a dozen people nationwide to receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
Jonathan Earle received the award in a White House ceremony Friday. He and the other awardees also [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Entrepreneur Edward T. Quinn of Longwood, Fla., has made a $2 million gift to the University of Florida College of Dentistry in honor of M. Franklin Dolwick, a UF professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery.
The gift will create the M. Franklin Dolwick University Chair and is eligible to receive dollar-for-dollar matching funds [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Florida career pharmacist feels that a promising future in health care is dependent on advancing the field of pharmacy and he’s doing something about it by making a major gift to the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida.
Lawrence J. DuBow and his wife Linda of Jacksonville, Fla., [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales will be speaking on Monday, Nov. 19, in the Phillips
Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida. This
event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7:15 p.m, and the event begins at 8 p.m. Advance student tickets will be
available with a Gator [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Supported by up to $10 million in grant money and state matching funds, two Florida universities today announced a new initiative designed to give a major boost to math and science education in the state’s schools.
Representatives from Florida State University and the University of Florida met in Tallahassee to describe new plans [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld makes a return trip to Gainesville during a nationwide tour in 2008, stopping in February for two shows at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
Seinfeld was recently hailed as “the master stand-up comic of his generation” and “the best comedian of our time” in a Washington Post [...]