Progress Energy, which sells electricity to UF, has requested a decrease in electric rates that could soften UF's budget cut by between $2 million and $3 million, according to Matt Fajack, UF's chief financial officer.
Tuesday night's back-to-back Student Senate meetings were filled with tearful goodbyes and words of encouragement, as old senators left and new senators sat through their first meeting.
After this week, it may not be long before blogs and Wikis become regular parts of the UF curriculum.
While many students buzz along Gale Lemerand Drive as they make their way to class, few may give a second glance to the shady oaks that conceal UF's Wilmot Gardens.
Despite possible future dips in state funding, UF has received a $21 million donation from a Jacksonville couple for medical education purposes and facilities.
Actor and film director Zach Braff ran onto the stage with a Red Bull clutched in his left hand Monday night, greeting the crowd and pointing to his butt before planting it in a cushy armchair.
Posters proclaiming "300,000 Dead 2.5 million displaced" and "It's not about our people or their people. It's about people" decorated Pugh Hall during a video and panel discussion about the genocide in Darfur Monday night.
The fat will hit the fire today in Tallahassee as state lawmakers convene in the capitol for the start of the spring legislative session.
The Prepaid College Board will likely have to shell out billions of dollars more in tuition payments over the next couple decades under an agreement reached last week.
The University Police Department shut down a philanthropic dodgeball tournament at UF's Norman Field on Saturday after underage drinking arrests involving participants were made in the neighboring parking garage.
The last six complaints filed among parties during the Student Government elections campaign season were discussed in an hour-long Elections Commission meeting on Friday.
About 4,197 people streamed into the O'Connell Center on Saturday night to see nine of the nation's best step teams face off in the 20th Annual Florida Invitational Step Show hosted by UF's Black Student Union. Each fraternity and sorority performing in the show was invited by the UF chapter of their organization. No UF teams performed at the event.
Iguana: It's what's for dinner.
Homelessness can't be solved in a weekend, but one UF graduate hopes his project will open the doors to the solution.
Sixty-one percent of the nearly 10,000 students who cast a ballot in this week's Student Government elections voted in favor of withholding funding from facilities that require biometric data, such as a hand scan, for entry.
ST. AUGUSTINE - UF will take another stab at securing funds this year to take care of 34 historic buildings in St. Augustine.
Budget cuts and possible tuition hikes getting you down? Try heading south of the border.
For the first time, UF is offering a two-week study abroad program to Antarctica and Argentina.
The band Copeland, UF quarterback Tim Tebow and speaker Joe White drew 2,957 people to the O'Connell Center Thursday to learn about Christianity.
Raucous cheers filled the air outside of the Orange & Brew early Thursday morning as the Unite Party swept UF's Student Government spring elections, taking 42 of the 50 available Senate seats as well as the Executive ticket.
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