GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Since 2003, between 200,000 and 400,000 people in Darfur, Sudan, have been killed and another 2.5 million have been displaced from their destroyed villages to face hunger, thirst, illness, rape and death.
The U.S. has recognized the Sudanese government’s attacks on primarily non-Arab African groups as genocide, and humanitarian organizations around [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s always better to give than to receive — but receiving national recognition for giving back to the community is pretty nice, too.
Learn and Serve America, a program under the Corporation for National and Community Service, has awarded the University of Florida a spot on the 2008 President’s Higher Education [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Spring 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series continues its environmental theme Wednesday with a presentation by University of Florida associate professor of history Jack E. Davis. The theme for this semester is “Florida, Water, and the Environment,” and includes talks by policy leaders, journalists and academics.
Davis will speak at [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The department of tourism, recreation and sport management at the University of Florida is offering students a rare opportunity to study abroad in Antarctica, the coldest, driest, highest, quietest, most remote and least understood continent on Earth.
“Very few opportunities exist for college students to engage in experiential education in Antarctica,” said [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida officials are making every effort to notify more than 97,200 people that an intruder gained access to a computer system containing files with their personal information.
The files included the names and Social Security numbers of students, faculty and staff who used the “Grove” computer system between 1996 and 2009. [...]
Larry A. DiMatteo, Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law & Legal Studies, recently was granted the “2008 Best Paper Award” by the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB). DiMatteo is a professor and former Department of Management chair in the Warrington College of Business Administration.
The winning paper, co-authored with Harvard Law School’s [...]
Three of 12 experts appointed to a national task force on America’s food safety hail from The Gator Nation.
Task force members include the University of Florida’s Douglas Archer, IFAS associate dean for research, Martha Rhodes Roberts, IFAS special assistant to the director of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and dean for research, and Glenn [...]
Nan-Yao Su, professor of entomology at the University of Florida, has donated $250,000 to the Entomological Society of America (ESA) for the establishment of an endowment to award creative entomologists who have demonstrated the ability to find alternative solutions to problems that significantly impact entomology.
Each year, interest from the $250,000 will be presented to [...]
Janet Nobles, office manager for University of Florida Air Force ROTC Detachment 150, recently was announced as the national 2008 Civilian of the Year. Nobles was chosen from a pool of civilians from more than 144 detachments throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The award is presented to a non-military employee who goes above [...]
Fifty years after the University of Florida began integration in September 1958, 20 of the first African-American graduates were formally recognized by a university forever imprinted by their legacy.
A special weekend dedicated to “the firsts” commenced on Friday, Feb. 6, with opera singer Denyce Graves’ performance at the Phillips Center.
“I am flattered, and it’s a [...]