More than 800 students responded to a survey that asked if they would be willing to pay 50 cents per credit hour to finance sources of renewable energy on campus. Results are in, and more than 80 percent said "Yes."
Equipment-use fees that UF piloted this semester in four colleges will be made available across the university this fall as part of a larger effort to generate funds in light of major budget cuts.
At the beginning of the fall, all it took was two clicks from UF's home page to call up your favorite UF trustee and ask him or her your burning question. But not today.
As the United States enters the sixth year of the war in Iraq, a UF organization wants to install a memorial for local veterans who have served the country in the past 63 years.
At age 16, Lynn Bailey represented her home state of South Carolina in a nationwide 4-H competition for her research on nutrition and healthy dieting.
When Katie Krasne, a UF freshman, went out Saturday night, all she wanted was her family.
Signs of Life, a UF student-run performance troupe, will merge hip-hop, acting, dancing, video, graffiti and more into an hour-long performance Monday and Tuesday in its new show, "Reaching Through the Static."
The first full-scale test of UF's emergency-notification system on Friday has been dubbed a success by UF officials, but questions about the text-messaging test still linger.
A UF council made recommendations to clean up a textbook-royalty policy for UF faculty members who assign books they authored in courses they teach.
UF Provost Janie Fouke, who announced her resignation from her post about a month ago, has been selected as one of six public candidates for the chancellor position at Louisiana State University.
It's a Thursday night in downtown Gainesville. While the rain is pouring, 13 people are standing in line outside a nondescript building.
Student Government officials gathered Wednesday night to reward their peers for their work this year, minus the $10,000 spent on banquets in past years.
In the midst of a political frenzy surrounding the 2008 presidential campaign, UF's Bob Graham Center for Public Service turned the focus from the candidates to the media.
The Gator Nation's armies have conquered almost 90 percent of the state of Florida.
SFCC was one of five community colleges included in a Florida Senate bill that would upgrade them to four-year state colleges.
UF plans to run a test of its emergency-notification system today.
Despite plans to announce next year's specific budget cuts at Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting, UF President Bernie Machen said he would delay his recommendations until the Florida Legislature ends its session and finalizes the state budget in May.
It's a Thursday night in downtown Gainesville. While the rain is pouring, 13 people are standing in line outside a nondescript building.
Alma Othman arrived at the Gainesville Regional Airport after several connecting flights. To her, Gainesville was an unknown city in an unknown country. And she had no place to live.
A giant fish in a lawn chair, a snake charmer and a gypsy bird lady are not typical Plaza of the Americas lawn-dwellers.
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