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The owners of Visionary CrossFit, Carrie Martinez and Jesus Martinez, painted a Tom Petty tribute mural as a gift to Sidney Lanier Center.

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Gainesville will pick one of these six options to honor Tom Petty

By Remi Storch | Mar. 18, 2018

The City of Gainesville is asking the public how to honor rock legend Tom Petty.

Andrew Warren holds a box containing all of the McGuire Center’s Wahydra specimens. Wahydra graslieae, in the bottom right corner, is distinctly darker than other Wahydra.

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Florida Museum researchers name butterfly after Youtuber

By Remi Storch | Mar. 13, 2018

Smaller than a postage note, rusty in color and with metallic scales on the wings, a new butterfly species has been named at the Florida Museum of Natural History — after a Youtuber.

UF's Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering supervisors determined which staff members could not perform their work from home and began screening and testing them last week, according to an email sent to faculty and staff.

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This UF department has the most African American female faculty members in the U.S.

By Remi Storch | Feb. 27, 2018

Only 16 African American women teach computer science and engineering in universities across the county, according to a report. UF employs four of them.

Organizations in the Levin College of Law are creating cards and raising money for victims of the Parkland Shooting through selling donuts. Sheyla Marimon, 24, second-year law student and Andres Perotti, 24, second-year law student are working to garner support. They had reached $400 of the $1000 goal at the time that this photo was taken.

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UF law students sold donuts for Parkland shooting victims

By Remi Storch | Feb. 19, 2018

UPDATE: By Tuesday evening, Sheyla Marimon said the organizations surpassed its fundraising goal of $1,000 by $39 at the end of Tuesday. Over the two days, 66 preorders for a dozen donuts were sold and 15 cards were written to the hospitalized shooting victims.

UF's College of Journalism and Communications.

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UF started the first Center for Public Interest Communications in the nation

By Remi Storch | Feb. 14, 2018

UF is the first U.S. institution to create a center for communications devoted to social change.

Gainesville will pick one of these six options to honor Tom Petty

Florida Museum researchers name butterfly after Youtuber

This UF department has the most African American female faculty members in the U.S.

UF law students sold donuts for Parkland shooting victims

UF started the first Center for Public Interest Communications in the nation

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