GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is seeking to better understand the student undergraduate college experience through an online survey.
Students will review the quality of education, student services and other aspects of their UF experience. Results of the survey will help administrators understand the undergraduate experience and allow for improvements in programs and services. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For some, turning an unwanted pet loose may seem the only thing to do, but University of Florida extension agents are working to get out the message that it can be dangerous for the animal—and disastrous for the environment.
With a slew of invasive creatures — everything from monkeys to pythons — wreaking [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — All University of Florida students, faculty and staff can receive a free diabetes screening from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 24 at the Reitz Student Union Colonnade.
The UF/Shands Diabetes Center of Excellence and other campus groups are participating in the American Diabetes Association’s 21st annual “Diabetes Alert!” to raise awareness [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will present “Florida Black History: Where We Stand in the Age of Barack Obama” at 6 p.m. March 17 in UF Library East, first floor.
Featured speakers will include U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., UF President Bernie Machen and Harry Shaw, a [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In wealthy countries, the war against malaria was won nearly half a century ago, but the disease continues to afflict communities in the developing world. Now the University of Florida is doing what it can to help fight malaria. UF announced today that it has received a $1.5 million grant from [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida faculty members and one former staff member have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to study and conduct research overseas this year.
Mark Thurner, an associate professor of history and anthropology, is in Peru researching the country’s museums. He will also lead a graduate seminar at Lima’s San [...]
Dance for Life, a free, therapeutic dance program for people with Parkinson’s disease, offers University of Florida students, faculty, staff and UF Movement Disorders Center (MDC) patients an opportunity to come together and dance.
Dance for Life is designed to reduce motor and non-motor symptoms and enhance the well-being of Parkinson’s disease patients.
Program partners for Dance [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Just as Florida’s affordable housing properties are reaching old age, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has provided a lifeline. The foundation awarded a $1 million grant to the Florida Partnership, which includes the University of Florida Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, the Florida Housing Finance Corporation and the Florida [...]
It sounds like power belonging only to a superhero: a high-powered beam that is able to zap a millimeter area within someone’s body, and yet not harm the surrounding healthy cells.
Heroic — yes, but this is not in comic books. It’s happening in real life, in nearby Jacksonville.
The University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, [...]
The artwork of Brad Smith, teaching lab specialist in sculpture at the University of Florida School of Art and Art History, has been installed between 13th Street and Norman Hall.
The sculpture, “Rejoined,” was funded by the Community Redevelopment Agency and coordinated by the Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs’ Art in Public [...]