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Garden springs to life as renewed community sanctuary

Various pieces of literature, art and songs have a “forgotten garden” theme, and there’s no need to look far to find the University of Florida’s own forgotten garden.
It was a different era when the once-thriving gardens at the corner of Gale Lemerand Drive and Mowry Road were a Gainesville tourist attraction, popular wedding site and [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, January 29, 2008.

Florida legislators tour UF energy research labs

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four members of the Florida House of Representatives and their staff on Friday toured University of Florida laboratories devoted to ethanol, fuel-cell and a range of other energy related technologies. They also visited a biofuel pilot plant and heard presentations from UF researchers.
“We’re doing a lot of energy-related research here at UF, [...]

Filed under In Focus on Friday, January 18, 2008.

New online campus map displays sustainability features

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida campus map, http://campusmap.ufl.edu, has recently added a new set of tools highlighting locations around campus that incorporate sustainable initiatives.
These new tools, which can be found under the “Map Features” dialog, offer locations and information on a number of a sustainable campus features, such as flex car parking, sustainable [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, January 15, 2008.