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Flu season begins — first campus case documented

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Flu season is officially on campus. The Student Health Care Center (SHCC) confirmed its first flu case in late November.
In order to safeguard students and faculty from catching the flu, the SHCC recommends that everyone receive a flu shot. Here are the top five reasons:

The flu shot protects against three different strains [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Friday, December 19, 2008.

Championship game to be shown in UF’s O’Connell Center, student union

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students, faculty and staff can watch the FedEx BCS National Championship football game against the University of Oklahoma in several places on campus Jan. 8.
The game will be simulcast in the O’Connell Center following the 20th-ranked Gator women’s basketball game against Mississippi State and in the Reitz Student Union. [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Thursday, December 18, 2008.

UF researchers receive international sustainability award

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida architecture associate professor Donna L. Cohen and visiting professor Claude E. Armstrong received the Holcim Acknowledgement Award in the Africa Middle East Region at a ceremony in November in Marrakech, Morocco, for their design of an integrated theater and orphanage in Tanzania. The ceremony was attended by more than [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Tuesday, December 16, 2008.

Tax policy lecture series established at UF law school

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Examining modern tax policy and how its implementation affects the economy and people’s lives is the purpose of the newly endowed Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture Series established at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Gelberg, a 1977 graduate of the college’s Graduate Tax Program, has pledged $500,000 from [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Monday, December 15, 2008.

Sisters take different paths on way to graduating from UF on same day

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When Jennifer Pell went fishing with her dad, her sister Lauren liked to play with the minnows they used for bait rather than fish. On hunting trips, Lauren stayed behind while Jennifer grabbed a gun and headed out with the boys.
“I was the rowdy one, the one getting in trouble,” Jennifer said.
“I [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Thursday, December 11, 2008.

UF to restore four major campus roads, forcing partial closings

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Starting next week, portions of four major roads on the University of Florida campus will be partially closed while they are being restored.
Jeff Bair, project manager for the Physical Plant Division, said the repairs will probably begin Monday on Museum Road, Newell Drive, Stadium Road and Buckman Drive.
The majority of the repairs, [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Top Stories on Thursday, December 11, 2008.

UF librarian receives national award

Iona R. Malanchuk, associate university librarian and head of the Education Library at the University of Florida, recently was named an awardee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times “I Love My Librarian Award.” Malanchuk is one of 10 librarians nationally recognized.
Each of the 10 award winners will receive a $5,000 cash award, [...]

Filed under Announcements, Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Wednesday, December 10, 2008.

Student video in contest for Super Bowl airing

Gainesville, Fla. — University of Florida student Alex Aime has created a video as part of a Doritos Super Bowl contest. Aime, senior sports management/businss administration major, hopes to win the opportunity to have the video air as a Doritos commerical during the Super Bowl.
The commercial may be viewed at http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/video/1883/. The number of views [...]

Filed under Announcements, Seen & Heard, Top Stories on Wednesday, December 10, 2008.

UF students to discuss politics and health policy in Pugh Hall

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Undergraduate students from the University of Florida will present research on health policy at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Pugh Hall Ocora in a discussion hosted by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
The Politics of Health Policy’s three discussion panels will cover international health care issues at 2 p.m., federal and [...]

Filed under Announcements, Top Stories on Tuesday, December 9, 2008.

University of Florida president pledges annual bonus for scholarships

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida President Bernie Machen and his wife, Chris, pledged today a donation equal to the president’s $285,000 annual bonus for a scholarship program for students who may not otherwise get the opportunity to attend college.
Machen told the university’s Board of Trustees during its quarterly meeting of his intentions to give [...]

Filed under Announcements, Top Stories on Monday, December 8, 2008.