University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thomas G. Pelham, secretary of the Florida Department of Community Affairs, will speak about the real and potential impacts of Florida’s new growth management legislation on Thursday at the University of Florida.
The annual Ernest R. Bartley Memorial Lecture starts at 6:30 p.m. in Bless Auditorium at 100 Williamson Hall. The lecture is [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning will showcase its commitment to international education with a gallery exhibit Nov. 16-21 as part of International Education Week.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Vice President for Research Win Phillips and the
University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) recently honored 33 faculty
members as UFRF Professors for 2009-2012.
Phillips presented each of the professors with a certificate of
recognition at a reception on Nov. 5 in the Friends of Music Room.
The professorships go to faculty members who have [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida professor is being awarded the highest decoration bestowed by the nation of France.
Carol Murphy, director of the France-Florida Research Institute and a professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, will receive the title Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, or knight of the legion, for [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Air Force ROTC Detachment 150 recently was awarded the Right of Line Trophy for having the best program out of 144 detachments in the nation.
Detachment 150 also earned the award in 2007 for the first time in its 63 years.
Col. Hubert D. “Griff” Griffin, who has [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will shine blue on Friday as it continues a tradition set in 2008 and lights Century Tower blue in honor of World Diabetes Day.
“We believe this reflects the University of Florida’s commitment to taking leadership on the worldwide diabetes stage,” said Dr. Desmond Schatz, medical director of [...]

Recently, princesses, super heroes and a dozen mini-Tim Tebows descended upon the University of Florida’s Panhellenic Drive from 5 to 8 p.m. for the annual event Ghouls, Goblins and Greeks.
Ghouls, Goblins and Greeks, which UF’s Panhellenic Council’s Junior Panhellenic division has organized for the Gainesville community for at least the past 10 years, is known [...]

The video officially named “A Day in the Life of a Student at the University of Florida,” and also known as “Hi Tim,” is currently available on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ovGPEuAV8, and ESPN’s Southeastern Conference (SEC) Academic Network site, http://www.secacademicnetwork.com/.
Created by University Relations, the informal video was designed to highlight some of the attributes of the university, [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers in the Physics and the Quantum Theory Project have received a new $1.275 million research grant from the Department of Energy to predict the properties of “warm dense matter” by theory, modeling, and computer simulation.
Over the next three years, the researchers will use the award [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Princeton University history professor will speak Monday on the University of Florida campus about “Jewish Books and Christian Readers in Early Modern Europe.”
Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, is a cultural historian of Renaissance Europe. His lecture starts at [...]