Thomas, a 19-year-old networking services sophomore at Santa Fe College, has size 4-gauge, 5.189 mm, stretched earlobes.
A 63-year-old Tim Tebow fan is selling a 13-foot-4-inch alligator on eBay.
Earth Pets of Gainesville hosted a pet photography event Sunday to raise money for the St. Francis House Pet Care Clinic.
For all of Ronald Powell’s hard work in the rehab process following offseason surgery to repair a torn ACL, his return to the field will likely have to wait until 2013.
Mike Alford and Florent Diep started the Florida men’s tennis team’s season on a high note on Monday.
With their top defender out indefinitely, the Gators have big shoes to fill.
The award recognizes the 150th anniversary of the act, which gave Americans the chance to attend universities, said Education Celebration director Hanna Gehr.
In order to interpret his role as Claudio in the UF School of Theatre + Dance’s upcoming reinterpretation of the 17th-century work, he translated the dialogue into modern English.
There are many general truths about UF that students should know.
Passion Pit will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, according to Student Government Productions Vice Chair of Public Relations Evan Galin. The performance will be co-sponsored by Reitz Union Board Entertainment.
The University of Florida Alumni Association has nearly 350,000 members total, according to its website. “The integration came as part of an ongoing effort to further involve current students despite budget cuts,” said associate executive director Katie Marquis.
Since that day, security has tightened across the nation, including in Gainesville, said Kelly, spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Will Muschamp walked into his post-game press conference dripping in sweat with a white towel wrapped around his neck. He looked worn out from yet another close game.
The 18-year-old architecture freshman took four Advanced Placement classes in high school, ran both track and cross country and worked part time as a waiter. Yet, compared to his first three weeks in college, that was a piece of cake.
Obama stood in front of a crowd of about 3,000 adult and student spectators Saturday to speak about everything from education to health care. The speech was part of Obama’s two-day Florida tour to sway voters in the swing state.
Qualifying, which determines whether a candidate is eligible to be a student senator, continues today and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 284 of the Reitz Union.
About 100 Gainesville residents gathered Saturday to celebrate the reopening of the Boys & Girls Club of Alachua County’s Rotary Campus & Mentor Center.
Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion,” will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. The event is free and open to the public. It will also be streamed live at www.bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu.
From 4 p.m. to midnight, both rookie and expert gamers flocked to the Reitz Union Ballroom to participate in GatorLAN, a video game tournament hosted by Gator Gaming. About 800 people attended; at any point during the day, there were about 150 computers in the room, said Gator Gaming president Ed Fonseca.
Concannon will come to UF from the University of Virginia, where he currently serves as a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics. He is also the associate director of the Center for Public Health Genomics at UVA and has been an affiliate professor of immunology at the University of Washington.
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