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 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eight University of Florida students have received Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarships to travel abroad for the 2009-2010 academic year in their chosen field of study. The scholarship provides funding for graduating seniors and graduate students to spend an academic year in one of 140 countries.
Here are the students, their majors, the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida Homecoming events are sure to have something for everyone.
This year’s remaining events include the following:
At 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 16, Gator Gallop will take place. Gator Gallop is a two-mile run that immediately precedes the Homecoming Parade and serves as its official escort.
At noon on Oct. 16, the UF [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The director of the Tourism Crisis Management Institute at the University of Florida will speak this week in front of a congress in Mexico about examining the safety and security of travelers.
Lori Pennington-Gray was invited by Mexico’s minister of tourism to address about 200 scholars and tourism industry researchers at the National [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Leadership Development Institute and Disney Institute are offering three one-day workshops where business leaders can learn the keys to Disney’s exceptional customer service.
Participants in “Achieving Success through Exceptional Service” should expect to learn the knowledge and skills to create a service-driven organization. The full-day workshop will [...]