GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Tickets are still available for the Celebrating the Firsts Gala, an evening event on Feb. 7 commemorating the 50th anniversary of integration at the University of Florida.
For the first time in recent history, the university is trying to bring together the first African-American graduates from each of the 16 colleges. Fifteen [...]
Birmingham, Ala. — League Commissioner Mike Slive announced on Wednesday that 53 University of Florida student athletes were named to the 2008-’09 Southeastern Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll. UF ranked third among the SEC schools for Academic Honor Roll recipients. Kentucky led the list with 60 student athletes, while South Carolina ranked second with 59 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A “smorgasbord of science” for the conscientious and the curious, next week’s Junior Science Engineering and Humanities Symposium will provide a three-day, insider’s glimpse into the professional world of scientific research that will culminate in a research presentation scholarship competition.
“It truly is a celebration of all aspects of science,” said Deborah [...]
UF Photography has created a multimedia presentation on the Gator Marching Band and its preparation and performance at the BCS National Championship. This five-minute presentation follows the band for five days prior to the game, and includes photos and audio interviews to show all the work that goes into a National Championship performance. The presentation [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has named nationally acclaimed Pennsylvania State University professor Clay Calvert as an eminent scholar in mass communication, Dean John Wright has announced.
In this role — UF’s highest faculty level — Calvert will teach media law at the graduate and undergraduate level, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida President Bernie Machen and his wife, Chris, will discuss their recent trip to Iran at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Pugh Hall Ocora on UF’s campus.
In November, Machen was one of six U.S. research university presidents, including presidents from Carnegie Mellon and Cornell, to visit several Iranian [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twenty-five internationally-known scientists will gather at the 11th Biennial Free Radical Underground Symposium to discuss the latest findings in important health-related topics linked to muscle wasting and weakness. The conference, hosted by the University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance will be held Jan. 22-23, at the Reitz Student Union.
“Researchers [...]
Updated 1/21/09 4:30 p.m.
University of Florida police say they have a suspect in the unauthorized text message sent Tuesday night that prompted speculation and some concern among students and staff.
The suspect’s name is being withheld because of an ongoing police investigation into the matter. How that person accessed the system remains unclear.
UF police are working [...]
Duane Chin wouldn’t be a good candidate for space flight — he gets motion sickness. But it doesn’t stop him from working with NASA.
Chin, a University of Florida graduate, works as a biomedical engineer for NASA. His current project concerns NASA’s Constellation Program.
The Constellation Program is developing spacecraft and booster vehicles to replace the space [...]
After researching for six weeks in India, geologists believe they have been wrong from the beginning, literally.
A team of geologists studying the Vindhyan basin of India has dated the area to be about 1,073 million years old. Fossil organisms in these basins are also significantly older than previously thought.
Until this discovery last July, the basins [...]