Fans of all ages to participate in Gator Gallop
By HILARY SHEINBAUM | Oct. 23, 2008While Pamplona has an annual running of the bulls, Gainesville has a yearly gallop for Gators.
While Pamplona has an annual running of the bulls, Gainesville has a yearly gallop for Gators.
With the forecast gray today, it may rain on UF's 85-year-old Homecoming parade. But the show will go on, complete with Kung Fu Pandas, an Olympic athlete and marching bands.
Being on homecoming court is an accomplishment, but for the candidates in the running this year, a position as UF royalty might not even qualify as their crowning accomplishment.
Homecoming weekend marks a special time in football season when Gainesville is filled with UF alumni making their pilgramages back to The Gator Nation.
UF's College of Medicine received a five-year, $5.3 million grant Wednesday to fund a center to prevent and improve care for head and neck cancers in minorities.
The tug-of-war for tuition-setting power between the state Legislature and the Board of Governors has no end in sight, according to a former higher education official who spoke at UF on Wednesday.
UF professor emeritus Harry Sisler is remembered for endeavors such as teaching for free during tough times or aiding NASA's Apollo program in the '60s.
You don't have to run for president to become part of American history.
Nineteen senators - 12 from the Gator Party, six from the Orange and Blue Party and one independent senator - were appointed to Student Senate committees during Tuesday's meeting.
The ailing economy has caused UF to take new risks with its $1.25 billion endowment.
Student athletes looking to dismiss negative stereotypes about their intelligence have some new ammunition.
After they had lunch together for the last time, Walter Weyrauch gave UF law professor Sharon Rush a book about a subject that had come up during their discussion.
Because of high costs, UF no longer plans to install two LCD screens that would have displayed a GPS map of bus locations.
At the end of the first day of early voting, about 50 UF students met up to learn about common misconceptions at the polls during a discussion Monday night.
Although her photos are in black and white, Nancy S. Bowman still remembers the pink and gray decor of the UF Teaching Hospital's opening ceremony about half a century ago.
The man Sarah Palin calls a terrorist has a fan club.
Over the course of two days, 275 tagged Monarch butterflies fluttered their orange wings and were released into the sky to begin their migration to Central Mexico.
B-Boys and B-Girls battled it out Friday at a Halloween-themed break dance contest.
Pooches at the sixth annual HOWL-o-ween Dog Costume Contest know what it takes to earn a Halloween treat: a killer costume and occasionally a few tricks.