Five bands will play a free show an the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom as part of The Fest 8, a punk music festival taking place Friday through Sunday in Gainesville.
About 40 residents of Maguire Village and University Village South, two of UF’s graduate and family housing facilities, met with officials from the Department of Housing Thursday night to discuss problems with their wireless Internet.
UF said it will conduct another test of its emergency messaging system soon – perhaps Thursday – after problems plagued its test Wednesday.
Florida Prepaid's tuition differential fee plan has raised its price for newborns from $4,600 in 2008 to $20,000 in 2009.
Representatives from 25 UF organizations participated in Student Government's Politics on the Plaza to encourage students get politically involved on campus.
About 30 members of the comedy troupe Theatre Strike Force pretended to be a horde of zombies on campus. They were inspired by the UF Emergency Zombie Plan that appeared on e-Learning and was taken down earlier this month.
A resolution supporting a one-cent pay increase for Immokalee workers passed 57-19 in the Student Senate on Wednesday. The workers pick tomatoes used by Aramark, UF's food provider.
The Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion will be transformed into a magical world, just in time for Halloween, complete with dancers, cross-dressers, an accordion player, pianists and video projections.
UF's campus burglaries have more than tripled from 2007 to 2008.
The new admissions office account puts the number of total accounts associated with UF at 25.
UF will test its emergency message system at noon Wednesday. In a summer test, it took more than an hour for some to receive text messages on their phones.
A federal appeals court dismissed a case on Tuesday brought by a Christian fraternity that clashed with UF after it was not allowed to select members based on religion.
More than 100 participated in the annual sexual health fair hosted by Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood outside the Reitz Union.
The dean of UF's College of Nursing was not selected to be Georgia Southern University's president.
TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie will speak at the Phillips Center during a week of events on campus related to the shoes.
Shands employees who deal with patients will be among the first to get swine flu vaccine.
UF professor Anita Wright and graduate student Mark Campbell have developed a new test that detects oysters that will make people sick.
UF's official iPhone application has a GPS-enabled campus map, event calendar, directory of services around campus and a news feed.
Jacksonville will have six safety zones this weekend with UF administrators lending a hand in the booths.
About 9.4 percent of UF students don't have health insurance, according to the 2008 Healthy Gators Student Survey Report.
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