GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is bringing Johann Sebastian Bach back to life with the help of its College of Fine Arts.
Bach will respond to audience questions and appear in a live video webcast Oct. 29 with the help of computer animation seen in such films as “The Incredibles,” “Toy Story” and [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Pioneer Athletics recently announced that the University of Florida’s department of Recreational Sports Maintenance staff has been selected as a winner of the 2008 Field of Excellence Award.
Wayne Zurburg, UF maintenance supervisor, and his team will be accepting the award at 3 p.m. on Oct. 23 at the University Village [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Tailored to the needs of the University of Florida faculty and professional staff who wish to further explore and develop their leadership skills, UF’s new Advanced Leadership for Academics and Professionals program will launch in the spring of 2010. The deadline to apply for this program is Oct. 30.
Developed as a cooperative [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Residents of the Yulee Area residence hall complex on the University of Florida campus are being asked to take five minute showers. They are piloting water conservation education efforts sponsored by the Department of Housing and Residence Education Green Team/Recycling/Sustainability Committee.
Water conservation messages are posted throughout the area, including [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jonah Goldberg, a nationally syndicated columnist and the editor of National Review Online, and Peter Beinart, the editor-at-large of The New Republic, will debate “Bipartisanship in the Media” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
The event is presented by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service and is the first [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning will host multiple lectures next week from some of the industry’s leading professionals. All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
Oct. 21, 6 p.m., Harn Museum of Art Auditorium
Robert Freestone, professor in the planning program at the University [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mark Noll, a leading scholar of North American religious history, will speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday in University Auditorium at the University of Florida.
Noll’s lecture, titled “The Bible and American Public Life,” will focus on the political use of Scripture and how the Bible has been used against and in support of [...]
InsideUF’s print edition is in the Alligator today (entire page 3 of the Alligator).
InsideUF is official University of Florida campus news — including both a biweekly (every other Tuesday) print edition in the Independent Florida Alligator and a daily-updated Web page. To access the Web page, just click on the blue “InsideUF” above or [...]
Apparently pigs are not the only mammal kind enough to share their flu with others. Horses now have passed their own flu version, equine influenza, to man’s best friend.
The resulting canine influenza virus (CIV) is a new respiratory pathogen in dogs. This is another instance of mammal-to-mammal transmission of influenza-A viruses, which was previously [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A collection of antique violins and violas that belonged to, and were played by, the late Dr. James Robert Cade, a University of Florida physician, will be loaned by the Cade Museum Foundation to third-year students at the UF School of Music starting in Fall 2009. Cade was a researcher and lead [...]