About 500 adults and 260 children attended Saturday’s inaugural event for Bug Week at the Florida Museum of Natural History, which will continue online through Friday. About 40 families used bug-related hints and navigated the Florida Museum during a scavenger hunt.
Members of Gatorloop share more than just a team name. The 55-member group is mostly comprised of engineering undergraduates with fond memories of tearing things apart and seeing how they tick.
Florida’s subtropical climate, coupled with its proclivity for sunshine, has traditionally been an attraction for snowbirds. Now the Nile crocodile is staking its claim to call Florida home.
Some students use their Florida Bright Futures Scholarships in the Fall and Spring. Bright Futures is offered to high school students in the state who display high ACT and SAT test scores and work a certain number of community service hours.
In a lawsuit between Florida A&M University and a university student, Florida public universities have signed a brief in support of the university’s position that Student Government at the university level is “not real Florida government.”
St. Petersburg Police are searching for the man who repeatedly punched a UF student. Zachary Taylor will now take medical leave from a Summer class after an unknown man attacked him at the Del Mar Gastro Lounge, he wrote in an email.
On May 9, Secretary of Education John King sent a letter to America’s colleges and universities and asked them to remove questions about criminal history from early stages of the admissions process.
A Santa Fe College sophomore and self-pro- claimed equestrian might become Chrome magazine’s next top model. Jeremy White’s love for horses led him to apply, and the magazine chose him as one of the top five male finalists for the American Paint Horse Association’s international modeling contest.
To Yilam Sartorio, the U.S. feels more like home than any other country she’s performed in. The 33-year-old opera singer from Cuba has toured globally, playing sold-out shows in countries like France and Mexico. Now, she and her husband, opera singer Ramon Centeno, are visiting UF as part of their first-ever U.S. tour.
Equal parts haunted mansion and murder mystery, the Florida Museum of Natural History celebrated the opening of its Wicked Plants Exhibit on Saturday. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 15, 2017.
Amber Peelz was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2012. She spent a week in the Cancer Center at UF Health Shands Hospital and received three surgeries. Peelz said caring staff helped her through the process, holding her hand as she was put under anesthesia before a surgery that would give her another chance at life.
Florida may have won its weekend series against Vanderbilt, but it lost its best hitter in the process.
Netflix has announced it will be raising its prices starting this month. Previously, the massively popular streaming service cost $7.99 for two HD screens. Those who paid the original price were grandfathered in when the price rose. But starting soon, this will no longer be the case.
The Gainesville Regional Transit System changes its schedule in accordance with the collegiate semesters, making the Summer semester more limited for bus riders. Many routes, such as the 118, 121 and Later Gator routes D and F, go on vacation and will not run during the Summer semester, wrote Chip Skinner, the marketing and communications supervisor for RTS, in an email.
After a two-week break, UF’s Reitz Union Board Entertainment will resume its regular GatorNights event from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Reitz Union on Friday. Members of the student-run organization needed time to focus on final exams and graduation, Maggie Sutton, a graduate assistant for RUB, wrote in an email.
Cannabix Technologies, a technology company based in Canada, enlisted the help of several UF scientists to develop a device that can detect THC on a person’s breath.
Out of 800 universities, Times Higher Education ranked UF as No. 120 this year in its World University Rankings list.
On April 22, about three weeks after Manuel Vasquez pleaded no contest to a charge of video voyeurism, the former UF Department of Religion chairman submitted his resignation.
By selecting patients who were in good health and separated only by age, researchers have discovered humans experience delayed inflammatory responses as they get older.
Jane Douglas discovered she could tell what — and how often — her students read based on how they wrote.
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