To: Faculty, staff and students
From: President Bernie Machen
Re: UF’s Budget
Date: Jan. 15, 2009
With the Legislature wrapping up its special session this week, I want to bring you up to date on our current budget situation and outline how we plan to proceed in developing the budget for the next year.
As part of its mid-year [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Once again, visitors will be able to experience the art of the moving image with the return of RISK Cinema to the Harn Museum of Art. The spring season is composed of four evenings of documentary film highlighting experimental and unique approaches to the genre and one screening of student films.
Peter Hutton’s [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Spring 2009 Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series begins Jan. 21 with a presentation by environmental activist and public servant Nathaniel Reed. The theme for this semester will be “Florida, Water, and the Environment,” and will include talks by policy leaders, journalists and academics.
Reed will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Diane Roberts, NPR’s “Weekend Edition” commentator/essayist, will give the 2009 Gus Burns Lecture on Feb. 4 at the University of Florida, hosted by the department of history and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
This year’s talk, “The Blackness of Barack Obama,” will explore historical definitions of “blackness” in the context of [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As leaders of many national, state and local governments debate whether to raise taxes on alcohol to boost revenues, their decisions also could influence how much their constituents imbibe in coming years, say University of Florida researchers.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Healthy Gators 2010 Coalition’s Walking Gators program encourages all faculty, staff and students to lace up their walking shoes and kick off the beginning of a “virtual trip” to Chicago on Tuesday.
The program consists of five routes throughout campus, each approximately 20 minutes long, which will be used by walkers [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Judging by the latest hurricane forecasts for this year, Florida residents might want to add upgrading their roofs and checking the strength of their garage doors to their lists of New Year’s resolutions.
Kurt Gurley, a UF associate professor of civil and coastal engineering who conducts research on home vulnerability during hurricanes, said [...]
Atlanta, GA — This year, the University of Florida is again ranked No.1 among more than 100 undergraduate schools producing Peace Corps volunteers in the Southeast Region. With 53 alumni currently serving overseas, the university also ranks 15th nationally among all colleges and universities in the United States.
“The University of Florida continues to be [...]