GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Peter Stoffella has been named director of the Indian River Research and Education Center, an appointment that became effective May 5.
Stoffella, a horticulture professor with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, had served as the center’s interim director for 11 months. He served as an associate director for [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — ABC News will open a mini-bureau in the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications in September.
UF is among five U.S. universities chosen for the ABC News On Campus program. Students will work as staffers in each of the bureaus, contributing story ideas and using equipment provided by ABC. The program [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.— The annual Independence Day Eve celebration, Fanfares & Fireworks, which was previously cancelled has been rescheduled. The event now will take place on Thursday, July 3 at 7 p.m. at the University of Florida Bandshell at Flavet Field. The event will be a gift to the community, thanks to the generosity of an [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction will take six students to Tanzania for a research project this summer as part of the new International Research Experience in East Africa, a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering.
For nine weeks, the students [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In response to the fiscal year 2008-09 budget adopted Friday by the Florida Legislature, University of Florida President Bernie Machen today announced $47 million in cuts affecting all areas of the university.
As a result of the budget cuts, the university will reduce funding for administrative units and research, reduce or eliminate degrees [...]
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce our budgets and embrace sustainability, the University of Florida is launching a new program, Think Before You Ink. The program affects printed materials from all areas of UF, and has three separate initiatives: Save the Paper, Print to Web and Printer Certification.
All the initiatives focus on “reducing [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Joe Glover, interim dean of the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named provost effective July 1, President Bernie Machen announced today.
Glover succeeds Janie Fouke, who announced in March that she was stepping down.
Machen said he chose not to conduct a search for a new provost because [...]
Originally posted April 24, 2008.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — During his time in the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Gregory Reppas has worked with the U.S. Navy’s mine-detecting dolphins, tended sled-racing dogs for Alaska’s Iditarod and done hands-on work with alligators in St. Augustine.
Reppas, who graduated from UF’s Navy ROTC program in 1993, will receive [...]