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H1N1 Swine Flu information

For more information, please visit Environmental Health & Safety’s Web site, www.ehs.ufl.edu/H1N1.

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Friday, December 11, 2009.

UF professor wins award after long career teaching history of science

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The History of Science Society has awarded the 2009 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize for excellence in education to Frederick Gregory, professor of history of science at the University of Florida.
Gregory’s distinguished accomplishments as an educator in history of science range across a broad range of media, including not just [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Wednesday, December 9, 2009.

UF to host – and participate in – NCAA Volleyball Regional, Dec. 11-12

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is hosting the NCAA Volleyball Regional this weekend at the O’Connell Center. Cheer on the Gator Volleyball team in the NCAA’s Semi-Finals (Sweet Sixteen). The Semi-Finals will take place Friday, Dec. 11 and the Regional Final will take place Saturday, Dec. 12.
Regional Semi-Finals
Dec. 11
#9 Cal vs. Baylor, [...]

Filed under Announcements, Happenings, InsideUF (Campus) on Wednesday, December 9, 2009.

WUFT-FM announces lineup for new local holiday music performance series

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida public radio station WUFT-FM has announced the lineup for “Home for the Holidays,” a special series of local music performances.
WUFT-FM will broadcast all the performances on its HD2 channel. It has recorded or will record the first three at the University Auditorium on campus. It plans to record the [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Tuesday, December 8, 2009.

SEC Championship pre-game photos available beginning Saturday morning

Photo Information
Visit tomorrow (Saturday) morning at www.insidethegatornation.com for professional photos of SEC pre-game festivities. Throughout the day on Saturday, periodically updated photos will provide images from both pre-game activities and the game.
The 2009 SEC Championship Game at the Georgia Dome tomorrow between the Florida Gators and Alabama Crimson Tide will determine the 2009 football champion [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Friday, December 4, 2009.

Gift of $1 million will complete Levin Law Advocacy Center

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A $1 million gift will complete the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law’s Trial Advocacy Center and bring the total of Levin family gifts to the law school to nearly $30 million, including state matching funds. The gift from Teri Levin, Fredric G. Levin’s sister-in-law, honors her late husband, [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Friday, December 4, 2009.

UF professor named editor-in-chief for Journal of Interior Design

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Margaret Portillo, University of Florida professor and chairwoman of the department of interior design, was recently named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Interior Design, the only scholarly journal exclusively dedicated to issues related to the design of the interior environment.
Published on behalf of the Interior Design Educators Council, JID includes articles relating [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Wednesday, December 2, 2009.

UF students stage exhibit about struggling Brazilian fishing community

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — By the time the sun rises at 5:30 in Icapuí, Brazil, many of the residents are fishing for lobster in increasingly depleted waters.
Yet life goes on in this northeastern Brazilian community of 16,000: Afro-descendants perform ancestral theater, elderly residents tell traditional ghost stories, Pentecostal women strive to fit their new religious [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Wednesday, December 2, 2009.