GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Gators Canned Goods Challenge for Kids already has helped raise more than 3,300 pounds of food for the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank in Gainesville, but many local food banks are in dire need of contributions to assist families for the upcoming holiday season.
Head Coach Urban Meyer [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Six and a half years filled with fear, terror and violence that I could have never imagined.” These are not the words of a military veteran or Holocaust survivor; they are the words of a survivor of domestic violence. This devastating social issue affects one in four women and impacts the lives [...]
Mary Liu, a University of Florida freshman and Honors student, will be the face of the university for the 13 million readers of Seventeen magazine.
Liu is one of 15 students chosen to share her freshman college experience. She was selected from approximately 2,000 applicants from across the country. UF alone had more than 300 students [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The new director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will talk about race and politics in Florida in the final program in the Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series this semester.
Paul Ortiz will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Pugh Hall Ocora with a talk titled “Building on Sam Proctor’s [...]
Kelley Godfrey spent the summer before her senior year of high school restoring three houses. She accumulated more than 90 hours of service around Gainesville before her acceptance to UF.
“I would have sat at home by the pool, and instead I changed lives,” Godfrey said. “I wouldn’t have traded it for anything.”
Godfrey, a UF [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For centuries, African beadwork has “spoken” in a visually coded language to convey thoughts about personal relationships, family ties, wealth, religious beliefs, and social and political standing. “Between the Beads: Reading African Beadwork” is an exploration of this practice. The exhibit will be on display until spring 2009.
The exhibition illuminates the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham will present the first lecture in the Ernest R. Bartley Memorial Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 21 in the Ocora in Pugh Hall at the University of Florida’s Graham Center for Public Service. Graham’s lecture, “Growth, Growth Management and Sustainability in a Distressed [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Originator and executive producer of the “Batman” movie series, Michael Uslan, will be speaking at the University of Florida at 8 p.m. on Nov. 18 in the Reitz Student Union Grand Ballroom. This event is free and open to the public with first come first serve seating. Doors will open at 7:15 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With the help of 200 trees, 30 workers and one eco-minded organization, the University of Florida will play a carbon-neutral game against the University of South Carolina this Saturday.
About 30 volunteers and staffers from the West Palm Beach-based Arthur R. Marshall Foundation, which helps restore and preserve the greater Everglades ecosystem, will [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the past, University of Florida College of Fine Arts graduate students and faculty who desired to present research in national and international venues or further their knowledge through research-related travel have had to make a difficult decision: fund the travel expenses themselves or not go at all.
Now, thanks to a $110,000 [...]