The University Honors Program is seeking proposals for new courses for the 2010-11 academic year. Interdisciplinary and team-taught proposals are especially encouraged. Tenure-track faculty from all disciplines are encouraged to submit proposals.
The deadline is Nov. 30. For more information, e-mail kknudson@honors.ufl.edu.
Recently, princesses, super heroes and a dozen mini-Tim Tebows descended upon the University of Florida’s Panhellenic Drive from 5 to 8 p.m. for the annual event Ghouls, Goblins and Greeks.
Ghouls, Goblins and Greeks, which UF’s Panhellenic Council’s Junior Panhellenic division has organized for the Gainesville community for at least the past 10 years, is known [...]
The video officially named “A Day in the Life of a Student at the University of Florida,” and also known as “Hi Tim,” is currently available on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ovGPEuAV8, and ESPN’s Southeastern Conference (SEC) Academic Network site, http://www.secacademicnetwork.com/.
Created by University Relations, the informal video was designed to highlight some of the attributes of the university, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers in the Physics and the Quantum Theory Project have received a new $1.275 million research grant from the Department of Energy to predict the properties of “warm dense matter” by theory, modeling, and computer simulation.
Over the next three years, the researchers will use the award [...]
InsideUF: November 10, 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Princeton University history professor will speak Monday on the University of Florida campus about “Jewish Books and Christian Readers in Early Modern Europe.”
Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, is a cultural historian of Renaissance Europe. His lecture starts at [...]
University of Florida officials are monitoring Tropical Storm Ida.
Forecasters currently expect the storm to have little effect on the Gainesville area and plans currently call for UF work activities to remain on a normal schedule. Should the storm’s predicted track change or should forecast conditions for the Gainesville area worsen, new information will be posted [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Players, the University of Florida’s student-run theatre group, continues its fall 2009 showcase season with Martin McDonagh’s terrifying and funny The Pillowman on Nov. 6, 7 and 8, in the Phillips Center Squitieri Studio Theatre, formerly the Black Box Theatre.
In a totalitarian police state, acclaimed writer Katurian is brought in for [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida School of Music will celebrate the 195 birthday of the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, with a concert of saxophone music at 12:50 p.m. on Nov. 6 in the University Auditorium.
Adolphe Sax, the son of a Belgian musical instrument maker, was born on Nov. 6, 1814. His [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Mobile phone users can now make a donation to the University of Florida’s Florida Opportunity Scholars program from their seat in The Swamp, from their tailgate party in the parking lot, from their car, home, or anywhere mobile phone service is available. The Nov. 7 game versus Vanderbilt University was the first [...]