University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida recognized outstanding faculty and advisers Thursday evening at the annual Faculty Awards Banquet in Emerson Alumni Hall.
Universitywide teacher of the year awards went to:

Christine Stopka, College of Health and Human Performance
Sevan Terzian, College of Education

Stopka teaches in the adapted physical activity master’s program. Terzian is an associate [...]

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Healthy Gators 2010 and RecSports encourage students, faculty, staff and guests to join a new tradition and participate in the Second Annual Midnight Fun Run on April 24, starting at the O’Connell Center.
Take a break and relieve stress before finals by being a part of this one-of-a-kind annual event. Participants can run [...]

Melissa Shuffield was done with politics.
After working as Sen. Mel Martinez’s press secretary for nearly three years, the University of Florida alumna was ready to try something new — that is, until Sen. John McCain’s office called.
“It’s only once in a lifetime that you have a chance to work for, possibly, the next president of [...]

Montia Morris has been appointed as the new associate director of the Upward Bound (UB) Program. She began working with UB in February.
Upward Bound is a federally funded college preparatory program for promising high school students from low-income households in Alachua and Bradford counties.
For more information, visit http://web.oasis.ufl.edu/UpwardBound/ubindex.html or contact Barbara McDade, director, at [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The PBS NOVA documentary “First Flower,” featuring Florida Museum of Natural History paleobotanist David Dilcher, recently bloomed on screen in Milan, Italy, at the Vedere la Scienza Festival, an international festival celebrating science-themed media.
“’First Flower’ looks at questions regarding the nature of the first flowers on earth, and also the beautiful diversity [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Andrea Duke of Saluda, N.C., has been crowned Miss North Carolina and will represent her state in the Miss USA Pageant on April 11 in Las Vegas.
Duke graduated in December 2007 from the University of Florida with a Masters of Science degree in management.
“The MSM program has been a fantastic experience and [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Society of Professional Journalists recently announced the Region 3 Mark of Excellence Awards for student entries. Students from WRUF, WUFT-FM and WUFT-TV have won the following awards:
Radio News Reporting
First Place: Miles Doran WRUF “Don’t Tase me Bro!”
Second Place: Alexandra Hill, WRUF “Lasik Problems”
Radio Feature
First Place: Kristy Wolski, WUFT-FM “Homasassa Springs”
Second Place: [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For the third year in a row, three University of Florida students have won scholarships from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, an organization established by Congress in 1986 to encourage and assist outstanding undergraduate students pursuing careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
The Goldwater Foundation selected [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida and Shands staff and faculty are urged to renew their parking decals by Tuesday.
The decals will expire May 1. Ordering by Tuesday will ensure that they are received on time and drivers can avoid the possibility of parking tickets.
There are three ways to order:
1. ONLINE (recommended): Benefits-eligible [...]