GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The 1920s come roaring back with a vengeance when the hit musical “Chicago” comes to town on April 11 for two performances at the Phillips Center.
Based on the 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, “Chicago” is, as we are told in the show’s opening lines, “a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mark your calendars: The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions has announced its 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, which will bring some of the nation’s top health policy and rehabilitation researchers to UF in celebration of the college’s milestone anniversary.
Complete times, locations and topics for the fall lectures will [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Bands would like to offer a discount to high school and middle school children of UF faculty and staff. The discount applies to attendance at one or both of the UF Bands summer band camps.
Gator Marching Band Auxilary Camp, July 10-12
The University of Florida Auxiliary Camp will offer [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Discover gems, dig for fossils and uncover the beauty of the Earth at the Florida Museum of Natural History from 5 to 9 p.m. March 27 during “Can You Dig It?,” part of the Museum Nights program open to the public. Visitors can enjoy family-friendly, hands-on activities like “Oreo tectonics” and geologist-led demonstrations of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — State Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, and state Rep. Bill Galvano , R-Bradenton, will be recognized today at a Blue Key reception to be held at the Tallahassee home of Cynthia O’Connell, University of Florida trustee.
Dockery and Galvano are being recognized for serving as co-chairmen of the Gator Caucus for the past [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Debra Walker King, University of Florida associate provost for faculty development, has been selected by the American Council on Education as one of 36 fellows for the 2008-09 academic year.
The fellowship program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen leadership in American institutions of high education.
Fellows spend their fellowship focusing on an [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Just in time for Women’s History Month, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service is bringing to campus the first woman to become U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Free tickets [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Student Health Care Center is inviting UF employees to take part in a free seven-week program to help them quit smoking.
Participants in the program, which also is sponsored by the university’s Employee Assistance Program and Area Health Education Centers Program, will meet once a week during their lunch [...]
Gainesville, Fla. — The Economist magazine has ranked the University of Florida’s MBA Program at the Hough Graduate School of Business No. 1 in the world.
The survey was the first to review distance-learning MBA programs, and was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). EIU’s criteria included program content, quality of students and distance-learning [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Fundraising for the future home of the Hough Graduate School of Business in the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration has been very strong since the project was announced in January 2007. Recent private gifts have brought the total raised to $9.7 million for construction.
Gifts of $1 million each from [...]