University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History is displaying four colorful Florida landscape paintings by award-winning artist Gary Borse through Nov. 25.
“The Soul of Florida Landscapes” exhibition, on display since Thursday, is described by Borse as “attempting to capture the essence of mystery and excitement that someone might feel, more than see, [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Harn Museum of Art will be open until 10 p.m. on Thursday for Museum Nights, featuring the Oscar-nominated documentary ”Buena Vista Social Club” at 7 p.m.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Musicians from locations across North America will convene live onstage (physically and virtually), linked by technology produced at the University of Florida.
The far-flung musical group joins together today and Friday at the INGENUITY 2007 festival in Cleveland to produce “In Common Time: MAXIMUM IMPACT.” The 30-minute digital media event features the original [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– For turn-of-the-century, small-town inhabitants, the town band was a familiar fixture. Harper’s Weekly estimates there were 10,000 such bands in the United States in 1889. Made up of ordinary citizens such as the hardware clerk and the feed merchant, their enthusiasm often outweighed their musical abilities. That didn’t keep them from playing everything from Sousa to opera to works from Tin Pan Alley at saloon openings, funerals, political rallies and parades.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Academic & Professional Assembly will host a Suicide Awareness and Intervention training from 3 to 4:30 p.m. July 31, in Room 282 of the Reitz Student Union.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shadow Dance Theatre, now in its sixth summer season of thought-provoking original work at the University of Florida, offers “Vintage,” a compelling new production, Aug. 2-5.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Student Government will host Museum Nights featuring free admission to the award-winning Butterfly Rainforest and a provocative Cuban film from 5 to 10 p.m. on Thursday at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Harn Museum of Art in the UF Cultural Plaza.

Hala Azzam, of the University of Maryland will present “Public Health in the 21st Century: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Global Health” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, in Room G316 of the HPNP Complex on the UF campus. The lecture, sponsored by the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ department of epidemiology and biostatistics, is free and open to the public.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students will be admitted free with their Gator 1 card to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s award-winning Butterfly Rainforest from 5 to 7:30 p.m. July 12.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the world of popular music, no one rivals The Beatles. When the group first formed as a garage band in Liverpool, England, no one had an inkling that it would become one of the most popular acts of all time, leading the “British Invasion” of America in the mid-1960s. Its musical legacy is so great that The Beatles continues to earn fans the world over, even though they broke up nearly 40 years ago.