UF to test texting system, hopes for better results
By THOMAS STEWART | Oct. 27, 2009UF will test its emergency message system at noon Wednesday. In a summer test, it took more than an hour for some to receive text messages on their phones.
UF will test its emergency message system at noon Wednesday. In a summer test, it took more than an hour for some to receive text messages on their phones.
More than 100 participated in the annual sexual health fair hosted by Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood outside the Reitz Union.
The dean of UF's College of Nursing was not selected to be Georgia Southern University's president.
TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie will speak at the Phillips Center during a week of events on campus related to the shoes.
Shands employees who deal with patients will be among the first to get swine flu vaccine.
UF professor Anita Wright and graduate student Mark Campbell have developed a new test that detects oysters that will make people sick.
UF's official iPhone application has a GPS-enabled campus map, event calendar, directory of services around campus and a news feed.
Jacksonville will have six safety zones this weekend with UF administrators lending a hand in the booths.
About 9.4 percent of UF students don't have health insurance, according to the 2008 Healthy Gators Student Survey Report.
A UF vegetarian group is celebrating World Go Vegan Week by holding events all week, ending with a pot luck Saturday.
Protesters seeking higher wages from Aramark and Publix for Immokalee workers gathered on the Plaza of the America Saturday.
Peta vice president Bruce Friedrich spoke to a small crowd at the Florida Gym about eating a vegan diet.
A UF Relay for Life team raised money and awareness by selling breast-shaped cupcakes on Turlington Plaza Friday.
More than 100 people gathered in Pugh Hall Thursday to hear speakers discuss the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Members of UF's Model United Nations and students linked themselves through their support of global cooperation among nations Thursday.
A UF engineering student will appear on an episode of "The Price is Right" airing Friday morning.
Showers in Yulee area dorms now have timers in showers that monitor water usage. The timers are designed to encourage people to save water.
The Florida Board of Governors appointed two members to UF's Board of Trustees, UF's highest governing body, in a meeting Thursday.
Environmental club members painted a large plywood cutout and gave out information about living sustainable lifestyles.
As part of a national event, UF students will volunteer at a local elementary school and food bank.