GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four of the University of Florida Police Department officers involved in the March 2 incident at Corry Village were reinstated to full duty today by UPD Chief Linda Stump.
Officers Bill Ledger, Keith Smith, Will Sasser and James Mabry have been on administrative duty since shortly after the incident. UPD’s internal [...]
On 07/25/10, at approximately 9:24 p.m. an armed robbery occurred on the eastside of Tanglewood Village Apartments, on the University of Florida campus.
The male victim, a resident of the apartment complex, was in the process of transferring groceries from his vehicle parked just outside of his ground floor apartment when he was approached by a [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Public radio stations WUFT-FM 89.1 and WJUF-FM 90.1 will add some new programs in the broadcast schedule beginning Monday.
Along with new locally produced live weekend music programming, there will also be new encore times for some popular weekend programs, a new weekday news program, and WUFT’s Richard Drake will be the new [...]
(Updated: Now Tropical Storm Bonnie)
Posted 7/22/10 (1:30 p.m.)
University of Florida officials are monitoring Tropical Depression Three.
Forecasters currently expect the storm to have little effect on the Gainesville area and plans currently call for UF work activities to remain on a normal schedule. Should the storm’s predicted track change or should forecast conditions for the Gainesville [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Alumni Association is hosting a lecture featuring four UF experts who offer diverse academic perspectives into the effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The lecture is scheduled to start at noon Tuesday, July 27, in Emerson Alumni Hall’s Presidents room, 1938 W. University [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project joined three other free speech groups to file a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
They filed it as part of Snyder v. Phelps, a free speech case centering on military funeral protests by members of Westboro Baptist Church in [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Through Aug. 1, artist Dawoud Bey is photographing incoming freshman students at the University of Florida.
These are the first college-focused portraits by Bey for display with his famous photography series of teenagers. A selection of the photographs will be on view Oct. 5 through Jan. 2, 2011, in “Dawoud Bey: First-Year Florida [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida ranked among the top 20 contributors of graduating seniors from large colleges and universities to work for the 2010 Teach For America teaching corps.
Among schools with 10,000 or more undergraduates, UF ranked seventh in Teach for America’s annual ranking, with 54 graduates preparing to teach this fall [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida announced today that Douglas Wynkoop has been named chief investment officer of the University of Florida Investment Corporation, UF’s investment arm known as UFICO. He will begin on July 19.
Wynkoop has been CIO of the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System since 2006, where he managed the investment activities [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida senior Calvin Cole won the crowning title of “America’s Funniest College Student” following his performance at the June 15-19 “TBS presents a ‘Very Funny’ Festival: Just for Laughs” in Chicago.
The festival is considered one of the world’s largest and most prestigious, featuring comedians such as [...]