University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s new $20 million Southwest Parking Garage Complex has won the 2009 Award of Excellence for New Design from the Florida Parking Association.
The award was presented to UF, PGAL and James Cummings Inc. for their strong collaboration. PGAL, a national architecture and engineering firm, designed the complex. James A. [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida honors the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his commitment to social justice through a series of events Jan. 18-29.
This year’s celebration, “MLK 2010: Leave Your Mark,” will empower the students, faculty and staff to see their role in continuing the legacy of King, and [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Helping Haitians now is greatly important. Everyone is encouraged to lend a hand or to aid organizations here at the University of Florida or elsewhere.
A team of faculty and staff from three UF colleges recently have provided medical assistance in Haiti. In addition, a UF forensic expert assisted with identifying earthquake [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida plant geneticist Matias Kirst is the only researcher from the state of Florida to be named a recipient of U.S. Department of Energy special funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Kirst, of UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and School of Forest Resources and Conservation, will receive [...]

Public Television station WUFT-TV will air the ‘Hope for Haiti Now’ national telethon tonight, Jan. 22. It will air from 8 to 10 p.m. on WUFT-TV, Channel 5; Cox Cable Channel 3.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gators United for Haiti, the University Athletic Association and the University of Florida men’s basketball team have joined forces to raise money for relief in Haiti.
Information tables and pledge sheets will be available at the O’Connell Center when the men’s basketball team takes on the University of South Carolina at 6 p.m. [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Gainesville/Alachua County Cultural Affairs Board (CAB) has announced its 2009 Lifetime Award winners.
Michael Blachly, director of the University of Florida Performing Arts, and the University of Florida Performing Arts will be awarded the Business Arts Award. This is the first year for the CAB to present the Business Arts Award.
At [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Institute on Aging has received close to $15 million from the National Institutes of Health to construct an almost 40,000-square-foot complex for clinical and translational research. The building will bring together scientists from a range of scientific disciplines and enhance how aging research is carried out on the [...]

Instead of spending winter holiday break with family, five University of Florida pre-medicine majors blogged from India about their experiences with Doctors Without Borders.
Wendy Alderman, Jasmine Nebhrajani, Ami Patel, Krupa Patel and Ashley Van Putten traveled to Mota Fofalia, India, to help educate children about the dangers of tobacco use.
Each day 55,000 children [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has regretfully informed the University of Florida that he will not be able to attend today’s event at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service on “Bipartisanship in the Health Care Debate.”
Frist, a physician and former senator from Tennessee, was making his way to Haiti [...]