The Gator Nation wants to know your personal Gator story. Visit the outdoor mobile video booth to record your story at the following upcoming events. Just look for the orange and blue “When did you become a Gator?” signage.
• Jan. 27 to Jan. 29 at Reitz Colonnade, 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
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Gainesville, Fla. — Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., executive director of the University of Florida’s Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, will discuss the Regeneration Project, an international effort to create new human therapies by enhancing the body’s natural regeneration and repair processes, on XM Radio’s ReachMD series “Future Medicine and Genetics.”
He was interviewed by [...]
To: Faculty, staff and students
From: President Bernie Machen
Re: UF’s Budget
Date: Jan. 15, 2009
With the Legislature wrapping up its special session this week, I want to bring you up to date on our current budget situation and outline how we plan to proceed in developing the budget for the next year.
As part of its mid-year [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Spring 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series begins Jan. 21 with a presentation by environmental activist and public servant Nathaniel Reed. The theme for this semester will be “Florida, Water, and the Environment,” and will include talks by policy leaders, journalists and academics.
Reed will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Diane Roberts, NPR’s “Weekend Edition” commentator/essayist, will give the 2009 Gus Burns Lecture on Feb. 4 at the University of Florida, hosted by the department of history and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
This year’s talk, “The Blackness of Barack Obama,” will explore historical definitions of “blackness” in the context of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Healthy Gators 2010 Coalition’s Walking Gators program encourages all faculty, staff and students to lace up their walking shoes and kick off the beginning of a “virtual trip” to Chicago on Tuesday.
The program consists of five routes throughout campus, each approximately 20 minutes long, which will be used by walkers [...]
Atlanta, GA — This year, the University of Florida is again ranked No.1 among more than 100 undergraduate schools producing Peace Corps volunteers in the Southeast Region. With 53 alumni currently serving overseas, the university also ranks 15th nationally among all colleges and universities in the United States.
“The University of Florida continues to be [...]
Beginning tonight, visit
www.urel.ufl.edu/production/photography/multimedia.html for a photo slideshow of events surrounding the BCS National Championship football game in Miami. New images will be posted periodically through Thursday night.
The No. 2 Gators will attempt to capture their second national championship title in three years with a win over No. 1 Oklahoma on Thursday at Dolphin [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Larry Arrington, dean and director of the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension, has been named interim senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources, UF President Bernie Machen announced today.