Despite its best efforts, UF came up short in an attempt to break a world record Friday afternoon.
Fifty purple tea lights lined the stage of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, where more than 100 performers sang and danced in celebration of Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, on Sunday.
After dancing a jig around stage to OutKast's "Hey Ya!" with UF mascots Albert and Alberta, comedian Jon Reep got down to business at Friday night's Gator Growl.
Alicia Silverstone wants Sen. Barack Obama to be her dad.
Jimmy Cheek, senior vice president of UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, will step down in late January to become chancellor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
UF's College of Medicine received a five-year, $5.3 million grant Wednesday to fund a center to prevent and improve care for head and neck cancers in minorities.
The tug-of-war for tuition-setting power between the state Legislature and the Board of Governors has no end in sight, according to a former higher education official who spoke at UF on Wednesday.
UF professor emeritus Harry Sisler is remembered for endeavors such as teaching for free during tough times or aiding NASA's Apollo program in the '60s.
You don't have to run for president to become part of American history.
Nineteen senators - 12 from the Gator Party, six from the Orange and Blue Party and one independent senator - were appointed to Student Senate committees during Tuesday's meeting.
The ailing economy has caused UF to take new risks with its $1.25 billion endowment.
Student athletes looking to dismiss negative stereotypes about their intelligence have some new ammunition.
After they had lunch together for the last time, Walter Weyrauch gave UF law professor Sharon Rush a book about a subject that had come up during their discussion.
Because of high costs, UF no longer plans to install two LCD screens that would have displayed a GPS map of bus locations.
Pooches at the sixth annual HOWL-o-ween Dog Costume Contest know what it takes to earn a Halloween treat: a killer costume and occasionally a few tricks.
B-Boys and B-Girls battled it out Friday at a Halloween-themed break dance contest.
Over the course of two days, 275 tagged Monarch butterflies fluttered their orange wings and were released into the sky to begin their migration to Central Mexico.
Although her photos are in black and white, Nancy S. Bowman still remembers the pink and gray decor of the UF Teaching Hospital's opening ceremony about half a century ago.
The man Sarah Palin calls a terrorist has a fan club.
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