GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Beginning today, bus riders in Gainesville will be able to pinpoint the exact location of the bus they’re waiting for with the help of the Gator Locator bus tracking system. The University of Florida and the City of Gainesville Regional Transit System are launching the global positioning system with $204,000 in funds from [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Michael L. Good, a 20-year veteran of the University of Florida faculty, has been named interim dean of the College of Medicine.
Dr. Douglas J. Barrett, UF senior vice president for health affairs, made the appointment after consulting with medical faculty members and UF President Bernie Machen.
Good, who joined the UF faculty [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Charlie Crist last week announced the members of the fourth class of the Gubernatorial Fellowship Program. Students participating in the program will gain first-hand experience into how state government operates.
“I commend this class of fellows for choosing to learn more about the high calling of public service to the people of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When Col. Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut, climbed aboard the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia in 2003, he carried a moonscape drawing by Petr Ginz, an artist and writer who perished as a teenager at Auschwitz.
To help the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications’ Documentary Institute make a film about Ginz, [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — To strengthen its commitment to the environment, the University of Florida has established a new undergraduate minor in sustainability studies.
Housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the interdisciplinary minor is a compilation of courses already offered across the university, with the exception of a newly created introductory course, Facets of [...]
Undergraduate Hananie Albert — an anthropology, English and French triple major — has been awarded a prestigious Beinecke Scholarship, which will enable her to pursue a graduate degree in the humanities and social sciences. She plans to use the $34,000 award to obtain a doctorate in Africana studies after she receives a bachelor’s degree in [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida doctoral student Patricia Roset-Zuppa is the recipient of the ING Clarion “Most Outstanding Article Award” given by the Cornell Real Estate Review, a student-edited and managed real estate journal. The award is given each year to the student with the most distinguished article that appears in the Review.
Roset-Zuppa’s article, [...]