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‘It is my hope that my story will both inspire and change your life’

Note: The following is a supplement to the story, “Alumna raises organ-donation awareness through life story” that appeared in the Sept. 23 print edition of InsideUF.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Rachel Nates, a UF alumna, wrote on her Web site, “It is my hope that my story will both inspire and change your life.”
Inspiration is defined by [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, September 23, 2008.

Alumna raises organ-donation awareness through life story

Rachel Nates, a UF graduate, took Hurley, her long-haired Chihuahua, for long walks before she was diagnosed. She used to go to work, cook dinner for her husband, Brian, and laugh until she cried with her best friend, Alexis Southcott.
Rachel was diagnosed with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis in May 2007, at the age of 27.
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (pronounced lim-fan-gee-o-lyo-myo-ma-toe-sis) or [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, September 23, 2008.

Artist Robert Stout – living the American dream

(Note: The following story is a supplement to the story “Italian mosaic brings art to Nanoscale Research Facility” that appeared in the Sept. 9 edition of InsideUF.)
Following your dreams may be more of a myth than reality to most Americans these days. But for some, the dream lives on.
For Robert Stout, a well-accomplished American artist, [...]

Filed under In Focus on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.