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Down a narrow passageway in Dickinson Hall, the thick vertebras of a baleen whale sit beside its 6-foot-long skull. In another room, about 33,000 bird specimens and field notes nestle together in drawers.

UF setter Mackenzie Dagostino (6) hits the ball up for middle blocker Rhamat Alhassan (1) during Florida's 3-0 win against St. John's on Sept. 17, 2015, in the O'Connell Center.

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Florida volleyball avenges loss, sweeps Arkanasas

By Patrick Pinak | Oct. 23, 2015

The Gators sought revenge Friday night.

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UF club climbing to new heights for cystic fibrosis

By Katelyn Vogt | Oct. 22, 2015

After Keira Hornyak, 20, saw her friend Chase Honeycutt struggle with cystic fibrosis, she wanted to find a way to help.

Hundreds of supporters, patients and survivors of leukemia and lymphoma walked with colored lanterns at the Light the Night Walk on Oct. 22, 2015, outside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Red lanterns marked supporters, yellow lanterns signified those who had lost a loved one and white lanterns indicated survivors and patients. The event raised money to fund research to find blood cancer cures.

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Walkers light lanterns to fight cancer

By Katelyn Newberg | Oct. 22, 2015

For the last two years, Chris Abeleda was in the spotlight.

Julie Watkin, the executive director of Jacksonville-based nonprofit The Girls Gone Green, spoke out against bear hunting in a rally she organized in downtown Orlando last month. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission's statewide hunt begins Saturday and will run through Sunday. Its goal is to harvest 320 bears to manage the population.

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The Hunt is On: Florida bear hunt season begins Saturday

By Alyssa Fisher | Oct. 22, 2015

In the forests of Florida, black bears reign supreme.

Trace Hance, a 21-year-old telecommunication senior, poses for a group of about 600 students with his DeLorean car on the Plaza of the Americas on Oct. 21, 2015, for Back to the Future day celebrations. “As I stepped out of the car, the band parted and then I saw a semi-circle of phones staring at me,” Hance said.

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Great Scott: UF goes ‘Back to the Future’

By Justin Tompkins | Oct. 21, 2015

In the 1989 classic film "Back to the Future Part II," Marty McFly travels to Oct. 21, 2015 in his aluminum-colored DeLorean car.

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Students petition for no exams on Jewish holidays

By Alexandra Fernandez | Oct. 21, 2015

After Gabriela Mayer had to take a materials course exam while fasting for Yom Kippur, she came up with the idea for a petition.

Former UF President Bernie Machen (left) converses with Matthew Williams, UF Office of Sustainability & Energy Integration director, about his electric bike at the Sustainable Transportation Fair on the Reitz Union Lawn on Oct. 21, 2015. Williams said e-biking is "the fastest, easiest and most pleasant way to get around campus."

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Students learn to be more sustainable

By Ronald J. Sonbeek | Oct. 21, 2015

Students trickled through the North Lawn on Wednesday morning before rain ended the UF Office of Sustainability’s transportation fair.

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Research Roundup 10/22/2015

Oct. 21, 2015

UF study sends mice into space

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Workshop to spark creativity in Shands

By Daniela Bulla | Oct. 21, 2015

Twenty-five years ago, Mary Lisa Kitakis-Spano’s first patient was a little girl in bunny slippers.