Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.

Donate Now

Newsletter

We inform. You decide.

Monday, August 11, 2025

News | Campus

Cliff Preston, 63, was nominated for the NASCAR Foundation Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award for his volunteer work as a baby cuddler at UF Health Shands Hospital in the neonatal intensive care unit.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF Health Shands Hospital baby cuddling volunteer nominated for humanitarian award

By McKenna Beery | Nov. 15, 2018

He could win up to $100,000 for Shands.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Everything that went wrong: voting edition

Nov. 15, 2018

SG committed so many sins when promoting elections, it's worth two columns

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

Our nation, world and university depend on international education

Nov. 15, 2018

I believe universities today must be champions of internationalization as essential to our nation’s prosperity and security.

NEWS | CAMPUS

George A. Smathers Libraries donates to Field and Fork Pantry for survey responses

By Jeana Fraser | Nov. 14, 2018

The libraries plan to donate up to $3,000.

Susan MacManus, 71, speaks at the 2018 Election Wrap Up event in Pugh Hall on Tuesday night. MacManus is a professor emeritus at the University of South Florida, as well as a member of the Bob Graham Center Council of Advisors. The event, which focused on analyzing many facets of the midterm election, was sponsored by the Bob Graham Center and the League of Women Voters of Alachua County/Gainesville. One thing that MacManus honed in on was the shift from elections being dominated by baby boomers to elections being more evenly split among generations. "We're seeing a generational transformation of Florida's electorate," said MacManus.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF, USF political science professors discuss midterm election results

By Taylor Roth | Nov. 13, 2018

The professors explained why some expectations weren't met during election night

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF students remember the comic book legend Stan Lee

By Gillian Sweeney | Nov. 13, 2018

He died Monday at the age of 95. His cause of death is not yet known.

About 50 Gainesville residents and elected officials gathered to honor the victims of Sunday's mass shooting in Jacksonville

NEWS | CAMPUS

Candlelight vigil held on UF campus for Thousand Oaks victims

By Angela DiMichele | Nov. 11, 2018

It was the second vigil on campus this month

To spend 24 hours in Library West, I had to bring along some supplies.

NEWS | CAMPUS

The Alligator sent a reporter into Library West for a whole 24 hours to ask: 'Why are you here?' Here’s what 24 people had to say.

By Gillian Sweeney | Nov. 8, 2018

Andrew Gillum attended Gainesville High School from 1994 to 1998. Some of his roles included sophomore class president, senior class president and student body vice president.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Before he was a candidate for governor, Andrew Gillum cut his teeth in Gainesville

By Angela DiMichele | Nov. 8, 2018

He dove into government during his four years at Gainesville High School.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Early voting on campus: heroes and wannabes

Nov. 8, 2018

The Reitz was an early voting location. Who is really to thank?

NEWS | CAMPUS

Conservative author speaks at UF

By Gillian Sweeney | Nov. 7, 2018

Allie Beth Stuckeyaddressed a crowd of about 50 people

Jonathan Friedman, a 31-year-old activist, chants “I want my foreskin back” Monday morning at the intersection of 13th Street and University Avenue. Friedman is a member of the Bloodstained Men, an activist group that has been traveling across the United States to protest the circumcision of boys at birth.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Anti-circumcision rally sweeps through Turlington Plaza

By Dana Cassidy | Nov. 7, 2018

The group said it wasn't targeting any group

NEWS | CAMPUS

Are you a perfectionist? It turns out it could harm you.

By Fotini Sisois | Nov. 7, 2018

Researchers in the UF Warrington College of Business found perfectionism in the workplace is detrimental to a person’s well-being.

Aly Raisman, team captain of the gold medal-winning USA gymnastics team in 2012 and 2016, speaks Tuesday night at the University Auditorium. Raisman talked about her dream of becoming an Olympian and her training as well as the letter she wrote and read to her abuser Larry Nassar.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Aly Raisman talks sexual assault, Olympic career

By Emma Witmer | Nov. 6, 2018

Raisman was paid $56,000 to talk.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

Don’t let them make you afraid of fine arts

Nov. 6, 2018

Major in what you want, whether it's fine arts or not

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF’s Vice President and CIO named to higher education board

By McKenna Beery | Nov. 5, 2018

This is the first time anyone at UF has been appointed to the position.

Emma Gonzalez, a 18-year-old Stoneman Douglas Graduate, throws shirts to UF students Monday night at Turlington Plaza. Gonzalez is a member of the National March For Our Lives team who coordinated the event with March For Our Lives Gainesville to get students to vote in the upcoming election.

NEWS | CAMPUS

March for Our Lives team encourages UF students to vote

By Hannah Beatty | Nov. 5, 2018

Emma González and David Hogg were in attendance

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF Study Abroad Office sells bamboo straws

By Kaylin Purvis | Nov. 5, 2018

The straws cost $1.

Gainesville Fire Rescue firefighters come out of the Biomedical Sciences Building in bunker gear after assessing the chemical spill on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. The spill was contained within the fume hood and the hazmat team determined that the room was safe.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF student injured with minor chemical burns after spill in science building

By Chris Day | Nov. 5, 2018

The hazmat team determined it was an acid

Los Angeles-based rapper Ty Dolla $ign, an artist in Wiz Khalifa's label Taylor Gang Entertainment, puts on a show for students at Gator Growl 2018. The concert, which was held on Flavet Field, capped off Friday's Homecoming celebrations and also featured alternative rock band Walk The Moon.

NEWS | CAMPUS

Gator Growl hosts performances by Walk the Moon and Ty Dolla $ign

By Tranelle Maner | Nov. 4, 2018

The weather delayed the annual homecoming event by almost three hours.

Solutions by The State News