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Faculty, staff may buy discounted basketball tickets

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida faculty and staff may buy two-for-one tickets for the men’s basketball game against Alabama on Wednesday.
Faculty and staff must show their Gator 1 identification at the Gator Ticket Office in the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium before 5 p.m. Wednesday to receive the discount. The game starts at 7 p.m. [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Friday, February 13, 2009.

Student Affairs to unveil Common Reading Program book for 2009-2010

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Division of Student Affairs will announce the book choice for the Common Reading Program for the 2009-2010 year on Feb. 18.
The selection will be unveiled at 12:30 p.m. on the Plaza of the Americas. The rain location is Room 212 in Library West.
This will be the third year [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Friday, February 13, 2009.

UF to host national sustainability symposium of designers, engineers

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning will host the National Academy of Environmental Design’s Water and Sustainability Symposium Feb. 16-17. The symposium will bring academics and professionals in the design field together with scientists and engineers to identify needed legislation and other action for reducing water demand and [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

National Science Foundation grant will connect graduate students

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s graduate school will be expanding interdisciplinary professional development opportunities for graduate students in subjects such as science, engineering, technology and mathematics with a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
A launch event will be held Feb. 13 to familiarize faculty and students with the grant. Pat Marsteller, [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

Former U.S. ambassadors to discuss foreign policy challenges at UF

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Three former U.S. ambassadors will visit Gainesville Feb. 12 to share their views on the challenges and opportunities facing America abroad.
Ray Mabus, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former governor of Mississippi; Douglas McElhaney, former ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Frank McNeil, former ambassador to Costa Rica, will speak on “Diplomacy [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Monday, February 9, 2009.

M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction hosts career fair

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction will hold its spring career fair from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at the O’Connell Center. This fair is open to all students in the fields of design, construction, planning, real estate, business and engineering.
The Building Construction Career Fair [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Wednesday, February 4, 2009.

The Gator Nation mobile studio makes friends in Miami

The Gator Nation is everywhere — and it seems the mobile studio that films Gator stories is everywhere, too.
The mobile billboard vehicle, which also serves as a video recording studio, racked up more than 600 miles driving to, from and around Miami during the week of the recent BCS National Championship Game. The truck was [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Tuesday, February 3, 2009.