GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in University Auditorium for Dr. J. Robert Cade, who died Nov. 27 at age 80.
Cade is perhaps best known as one of the creators of Gatorade and was a longtime professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Florida.
UF President Bernie [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Spring semester parking decals will go on sale beginning Dec. 3, providing students with the opportunity to purchase their decals before they leave campus for the holiday break.
Students who wait to buy their decals when they return in January may experience unnecessary urgency and long lines. Additionally, since there is no [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Paleontology Division is looking for volunteers to assist with fossil collecting at a major site discovered in 2005 in a limestone quarry northeast of Newberry.
The fossil dig began in October and will continue until Dec. 20. Volunteers are needed seven days a week between the [...]
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Graduate students from the University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning Historic Preservation Program will give a public presentation at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sala de Montiano Auditorium in the Government House at 48 King St. The students will share their preservation and design solutions in neighborhood conservation [...]
GAINVESVILLE, Fla. — Racial integration at the University of Florida came after years of struggle. In September 1958, George Starke Jr. became the first African American at UF admitted to the College of Law, and seven black students enrolled in the undergraduate program in 1962. Today, UF’s student body reflects the diversity of the state as well as the world.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gatorade inventor Dr. Robert Cade drinks his favorite flavor of the sports drink during a dedication of a historic marker recognizing the birthplace of Gatorade at the University of Florida on Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. The marker is located near the O’Connell Center. Cade invented the world’s best-selling sports drink for the [...]
The sign hanging in their office reads “Garden More, Work Less,” but twin sisters and environmental horticulture graduate students Jennifer and Jessica Boldt have found a way to combine the two at the University of Florida.
As coordinator of the experimental trial gardens, Jennifer is responsible for testing different breeds of seeds from plant suppliers across [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The associate dean of student affairs in the University of Florida College of Engineering is one of fewer than a dozen people nationwide to receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
Jonathan Earle received the award in a White House ceremony Friday. He and the other awardees also [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Entrepreneur Edward T. Quinn of Longwood, Fla., has made a $2 million gift to the University of Florida College of Dentistry in honor of M. Franklin Dolwick, a UF professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery.
The gift will create the M. Franklin Dolwick University Chair and is eligible to receive dollar-for-dollar matching funds [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Christopher Silver, dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning, was recently awarded the Laurence C. Gerckens Prize at the biennial Society for American City and Regional Planning History conference in Portland, Maine. The prize is awarded once every two years to a scholar-teacher who has demonstrated sustained excellence in the [...]