GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida student will appear on Tuesday’s episode of “The Price Is Right,” a popular game show on the CBS network.
Kristin Lundy, a senior in the College of Health and Human Performance, is a long-time fan of “The Price Is Right” and was excited to get tickets to a taping [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Davis Productivity Awards, an annual program honoring state government employees throughout Florida, has announced its winners for 2008. These winners include 12 teams or individuals from the University of Florida.
In addition to honoring “innovation, creativity, and smart work,” the awards program recognizes individuals and work units that have adapted or implemented [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — State Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, and state Rep. Bill Galvano , R-Bradenton, will be recognized today at a Blue Key reception to be held at the Tallahassee home of Cynthia O’Connell, University of Florida trustee.
Dockery and Galvano are being recognized for serving as co-chairmen of the Gator Caucus for the past [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Debra Walker King, University of Florida associate provost for faculty development, has been selected by the American Council on Education as one of 36 fellows for the 2008-09 academic year.
The fellowship program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen leadership in American institutions of high education.
Fellows spend their fellowship focusing on an [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rolando Rivas-Camp, director for the Center for Historic Buildings at the U.S. General Services Administration, was awarded the University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning’s 2008 Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Achievement Award, the college announced today.
The annual award recognizes an individual who exemplifies the spirit of historic preservation in Florida. It is [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Just in time for Women’s History Month, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service is bringing to campus the first woman to become U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Free tickets [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two graduates of the University of Florida Documentary Institute recently won an Emmy at the 29th annual College Television Awards in Los Angeles for their thesis project, “Bismillah: In the Name of Allah.”
Jolene Pinder and Sarah Zaman, who received their master’s degrees from UF’s College of Journalism and Communications last year, won [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Student Health Care Center is inviting UF employees to take part in a free seven-week program to help them quit smoking.
Participants in the program, which also is sponsored by the university’s Employee Assistance Program and Area Health Education Centers Program, will meet once a week during their lunch [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Jason Colquitt and Jeffery LePine, both full professors in the Warrington College of Business Administration’s department of Management, were selected as the associate editors of two of the leading journals in management research.
Colquitt was selected as an associate editor of Academy of Management Journal. LePine accepted the position of associate editor for [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More than 170 dancers from Gainesville and across the country spun into town for “Stompin’ at The Swamp,” Feb. 29- March 2. The weekend’s workshops, lessons and dances all had the theme of “Leaping through Time.” The convention wanted to teach beginning and advanced swing dancers alike about the history of [...]