Guitar maker extends neck
By Estee Beck | Aug. 3, 2011Archer, Fla., is but a speck on a map. It has a population of about 1,300, and its claim to fame might only be that it was once home to legendary rhythm and blues artist Bo Diddley.
Archer, Fla., is but a speck on a map. It has a population of about 1,300, and its claim to fame might only be that it was once home to legendary rhythm and blues artist Bo Diddley.
Three UF alumni captured the story of a community's support, a family's resilience and a special child's love for baseball in a seven-minute short film titled "Jacob's Turn."
The Chords of Color for a Cause program approaches cancer in a different way.
The UF College of Education announced Monday its new dean - Glenn Good.
For UF football fans looking to park off-campus for home games, the Gator Aider service returns.
The students have been heard.
Talk to anybody who has grown up in the North, and they will surely regale you with fond memories of catching lightning bugs on warm summer nights. Ask born-and-raised Floridians, and they'll stare blankly as no memories come to mind.
About 2,500 students will move out of their summertime homes in UF's residence halls this week.
"For better or for worse," he boomed, when all the shuffling and seat-swapping subsided, "this is my swan song."
When I joined the Unite Party in fall 2010, I was inspired by its rhetoric about bringing the campus together. When I was elected to the Student Senate on the party's ticket, I was excited to work to improve our campus. However, with every passing week, I've grown more and more dismayed about how the party's words are always different from its actions.
The race is over.
The Florida Department of Health announced Tuesday the Emergency Suspension Orders of 14 medical practitioners and one pharmacy. One of the suspensions was handed down to local certified nursing assistant Melinda Lawanna Bryant.
UF is teaming up with 29 universities to obtain an Internet service that is so fast, one could download 200 iTunes songs in eight seconds.
The UF Student Senate held its first-ever Senate Outreach Day on Tuesday, and the students who stayed for the three-and-a-half-hour meeting were treated to quite a show.
SG representatives, along with the dean of students, had a chance to speak to roughly 70 students about SG's role in campus community.
Skirts fluttered and flew with the turns as couples young and old glided across the wood floors of the Thelma A. Boltin Center to a range of music from Elvis Presley's "Return To Sender" to Frank Sinatra's "The Tender Trap."
Letters, nails and vehicular sabotage haven't kept two UF biology professors from expressing their belief in evolution.
Here's an alcoholic beverage UF can get behind: red wine.
The UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation faces a devastating loss after a fire burned down the Austin Cary Conference Center Tuesday afternoon.
If you're Micah Lewis, your bowtie must be spinning with delight.