University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., will be speaking on the University of Florida campus, as part of February Black History Month events.

GAINESVILLE, FL – The Academy of St Martin in the Fields will appear with pianist Jonathan Biss at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 14, at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on the University of Florida campus.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Romans and Natives in Ancient Sardinia” is the title of a lecture by Stephen Dyson, a professor at the State University of New York-Buffalo, at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall. The talk is sponsored by the Gainesville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Classics and School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s fourth and long with 10 seconds on the clock. The anxiety builds. Epinephrine floods the bloodstream. Blood vessels constrict as the ball is snapped, causing a spike in blood pressure.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida engineering student Maria Palazuelos is working on nanotechnology, but she’s not seeking a better sunscreen, tougher golf club or other product — the focus of many engineers in the field.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — First it was basketball, then football, and now the University of Florida has come in first in yet another category: sales of specialty license plates.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The housing slump — and not gas prices or the stock market — is likely to blame for the drop in consumer confidence in Florida by one point to 89 in January, University of Florida economists report.

The University of Florida kicked off 2007 by rolling out new programs to help ease traffic and work toward the goal of a sustainable campus.

Here’s the print version of InsideUF for January 30, 2007.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — This year’s University of Florida Music Law Conference on Feb. 9 and 10 will go “Beyond the CD,” with discussions focusing on the music business as it relates to film, television, video games, new distribution and emerging technologies.