InsideUF’s print edition is in the Alligator today (entire page 3 of the Alligator).
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GAINESVILLE, Fla.–The University of Florida’s 2009 benefits open enrollment period will begin at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 14 and end at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 9. Each year during the open enrollment period, eligible faculty and staff have an opportunity to make changes to their benefits, which are provided through a combination of state- and [...]
University of Florida undergraduate nursing students only have to wait 10 more days to receive their hard-earned degrees during the College of Nursing commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. on May 1 at the Phillips Center.
For many of these soon-to-be graduates, the undergraduate experience included the usual experiences of college life, as well as hectic [...]
Fluctuating gas prices and environmental concerns are leading many to electric-powered cars, and a new University of Florida partnership hopes to find out if it’s really a cleaner, cheaper and more reliable choice.
UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension researcher Pierce Jones is working with North Carolina-based companies Progress Energy, Advanced Energy and Duke [...]
If winning two national championships in three years doesn’t convince you that University of Florida football players are outstanding, then maybe scientific-based evidence will.
In addition to practice and attending class, University of Florida football players visit the UF Biomechanics and Motion Analysis Laboratory to sharpen and evaluate their top-notch skills.
Bryan Conrad, a UF department [...]
In December 2008, the prominent fountain that stood behind Tigert Hall sprung its last drop of water.
The fountain was demolished to make way for the William R. Hough Hall of the Warrington College of Business. Construction is scheduled to be completed during fall 2010.
The building will be equipped with classrooms, meeting space, an open-air [...]
The University of Florida may be in Gainesville, but the Division of Continuing Education (DCE) touches the world every day — both online and in person.
From on-campus programs to conferences held in Japan, the division’s reach is infinite both geographically and academically.
“The Division of Continuing Education is the University of Florida’s best-kept secret,” said [...]
After researching for six weeks in India, geologists believe they have been wrong from the beginning, literally.
A team of geologists studying the Vindhyan basin of India has dated the area to be about 1,073 million years old. Fossil organisms in these basins are also significantly older than previously thought.
Until this discovery last July, the basins [...]
Kristy Hyland is from Melbourne, Australia, but walks around the University of Florida campus at a New York City clip – a surprising pace, considering she is legally blind.
“I like to get where I’m going,” she said.
Going places seems to be a theme of Hyland’s life. Before beginning at UF, she traveled around the United [...]
Environmentalists aren’t the only ones with “green jobs” anymore.
Green or sustainability jobs, in which professionals work to solve problems like energy use and urbanization, are popping up in practically every business, government and nonprofit sector — under job titles such as sustainability officer, sustainable design professional, resource manager and energy engineer.
Apart from those in the [...]