UF professors shared their romantic journeys leading them into the Swamp. Gainesville became a loving home for these couples.
As the demolitions of Maguire Village and University Village South loom, UF graduate students are rallying to save the once-bustling communities. But for former UVS resident Carmen Valero-Aracama, the demolitions pose an additional loss: a memorial of her husband.
In a response to the Florida Auditor General’s recently released findings on former UF President Ben Sasse identifying overall unnecessary spending, the university defended itself with a seven-page memo.
In the middle of the academy’s most recent admissions cycles, UF abruptly removed First Fall as an option. The move has left prospective students and their parents feeling duped.
Over 200 UF students fell victim to an influx of flu diagnoses from last month amid a record-breaking cold weather spike last month, which forced people to stay indoors and made conditions optimal for the flu to spread.
Bart Knowles was sworn in as UF Police Department chief Monday morning. Knowles has served as interim chief since June after his predecessor, Linda Stump-Kurnick, was promoted to a position in central administration.
The Board of Governors, a majority of which are appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, voting month to purge UF’s general education catalog from more than 1,200 courses to just under 300.
While the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles County occurred more than 2,400 miles away from Gainesville, their impacts have been felt by students at the University of Florida.
All diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility activities required of federal funding in grants will cease at UF, according to an email sent by the university’s Vice President for Research, David Norton.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he won’t get involved in UF’s presidential search. But under a recent rule, the state university system’s Board of Governors, seven of whom are DeSantis appointees, must approve UF’s presidential finalists before they’re publicly announced.
A preliminary report from the Florida Auditor General found UF failed to prevent former President Ben Sasse from leveraging his executive privileges to inappropriately spend university funds.
Helga Melmed, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, captivated more than 400 University of Florida students and Gainesville community members at the Chabad UF Student Center Monday evening with her powerful testimony of survival, resilience and love amidst captivity in Auschwitz and two other German camps.
UF is urging its faculty and staff to continue with business as usual after the Trump administration announced a temporary pause on all federal financial assistance, which includes billions of dollars in federal grants and loans for universities nationwide.
UF community members flocked to a four-day kickoff to UF’s Pipe Organ Centennial from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26, commemorating the Andrew Anderson Memorial Pipe Organ, built in 1925.
After 15 months of conflict, Israel and Hamas entered a fragile ceasefire deal Jan. 15, producing feelings of hope, joy and uncertainty on UF’s campus.
Dozens of UF students flocked to the Plaza of the Americas Friday afternoon to witness the evangelical preacher Cindy Smock, better known as “Sister Cindy,” deliver her yearly quasi-sermon on the dangers of drinking and sexual promiscuity among college-aged students.
A water leak underneath Museum Road caused a steady stream of shallow water across the campus roadway Friday afternoon, creating “hazardous conditions,” according to an alert from UF Public Safety.
The Florida Board of Governors are commissioning a study to determine the "return on investment" of women's and gender studies and three other academic programs at UF.
Enzo had blanketed parts of the Florida Panhandle in up to two inches of snow throughout Tuesday and Wednesday.
As on-campus housing shrinks and the demolitions loom, graduate students are sounding alarm bells over what they see as an affordable housing crisis. And a small batch of activists are making one final push to save Maguire Village and University Village South.
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