University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the nation’s best-known and most-respected professionals in the field of alumni relations has been selected to lead the University of Florida Alumni Association, the university announced today.
Leland Patouillet, associate vice chancellor for alumni relations and executive director of the University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association, will begin his duties as executive [...]

Gainesville, Fla. — Public radio station WJUF-FM, Nature Coast 90.1 has entered the digital HD era. The 21,000 watt public radio station serves the Citrus, Hernando and Sumter County region with a simulcast of the WUFT-FM, Classic 89.1 signal. The stations are a public service of the University of Florida College [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Beginning June 17, visitors to the Harn Museum of Art will experience an innovative all-video exhibition entitled “Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as Metaphor for Identity.” This traveling exhibition presents recent video installations by five international artists with ties to Africa, including Zwelethu Mthethwa, Ingrid Mwangi (with Robert Hutter), [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Doug Gregory, Florida Sea Grant marine extension agent in Key West, Fla., and LeRoy Creswell, a Florida Sea Grant marine extension faculty member with St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension in Fort Pierce, Fla., have recently received awards.
Gregory is one of six individuals nationwide who earlier this month was honored in Washington [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Public broadcasting stations WUFT-TV, Channel 5, WUFT-DT, Digital 5, WUFT-FM, Classic 89 and WJUF-FM, Nature Coast 90 will present Fanfares & Fireworks, the annual Independence Day eve celebration, at 7 p.m. on Thursday July 3 at the University of Florida Flavet Field. The 18th annual event is financially sponsored by [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida officials today mailed letters of notification to more than 11,300 current and former students regarding a privacy breach that resulted in names, addresses and Social Security numbers being posted online that may have been accessible to the public.
The student information was actively used from 2003 through 2005 and remained [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Continuing its Summer in the City series, University of Florida Performing Arts will present “The Piano Men – Starring Jim Witter”…A musical journey through the ’70s featuring the music of Billy Joel and Elton John. The multimedia concert experience will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday June 27 at [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eighteen academics from around the world are coming to Gainesville to gain a deeper understanding of how U.S. foreign policy is created and enacted.
The University of Florida political science department was awarded approximately $250,000 by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to conduct the Study of the [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Beginning today, bus riders in Gainesville will be able to pinpoint the exact location of the bus they’re waiting for with the help of the Gator Locator bus tracking system. The University of Florida and the City of Gainesville Regional Transit System are launching the global positioning system with $204,000 in funds from [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Michael L. Good, a 20-year veteran of the University of Florida faculty, has been named interim dean of the College of Medicine.
Dr. Douglas J. Barrett, UF senior vice president for health affairs, made the appointment after consulting with medical faculty members and UF President Bernie Machen.
Good, who joined the UF faculty [...]