The University of Florida was recently named as a 2007 Honor Roll member of the President’s Higher Education Community Service program. This is the first year that UF has applied for the national award.
UF’s award application highlighted that more than 72,000 hours of community service were performed by some 12,435 students. Details of four specific [...]
UF English alumna Barbara J. Stephenson has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the U.S. to the Republic of Panama, following the nomination of President George W. Bush.
A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Stephenson currently serves as
Deputy Coordinator for Iraq at the Department of State. Prior to [...]
The Center for Latin American Studies was recently awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fulbright Hays Program to provide a four-week curriculum development project in Ecuador and Peru.
The program, “The Andean “HATSS” Project: Reaching High Achievement for Teachers and Students of Spanish in Florida Schools,” is a collaborative endeavor between the Center [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As he gears up to retire June 30 after 43 years as a journalist, media law scholar and mentor, Bill Chamberlin is collecting top honors in his field.
They include being inducted into the “Heroes of the 50 States: The Open Government Hall of Fame” and receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from Florida’s [...]
In a letter to the University of Florida community, President Bernie Machen urges The Gator Nation to think of the millions who need our help in China, Myanmar and parts of the U.S.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UF officials were still working Tuesday morning to determine what caused a power outage that affected the northeastern section of campus.
The outage, which started around 11 a.m. and lasted about 30 minutes, affected everything from Gale Lemerand Drive east and from Museum Drive north, said David O’Brien, assistant vice president for the [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s growing biotechnology industry is demanding an increasingly specialized work force, and the University of Florida is seeking to meet that need with a variety of programs for both entry-level and advanced workers.
Newly attracted heavy-hitting research institutes such as Scripps Florida, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies and the Burnham Institute for [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kenneth K. Lowman, program evaluator for the University of Florida’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers’ leadership team and adjunct finance professor in the College of Health and Human Performance, recently was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to serve on the department’s summer Institute Planning Committee.
The U.S. Department of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two new scholarships were recently awarded to College of Fine Arts School of Theatre and Dance students at the University of Florida.
A newly formed support group, The Friends of Theatre and Dance, created and funded the two $750 annual scholarships that were awarded in the Constans Theatre.
Each year, the Friends of Theatre [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shibu Jose, an IFAS forestry researcher, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 2009 by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. During the 2009 spring semester, he will be based in Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, where he will teach and do research at the Independent University of [...]