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. — 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. — 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. – The University Athletic Association will hold a celebration for University of Florida football fans from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
The BCS National Championship team returns to Gainesville today.
Stadium gates for Sunday’s event will open at 11:30 a.m. The celebration will be broadcast live on Sun Sports. A [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — RTS routes 5, Later Gator A and Later Gator C will begin route detours at 10 p.m. today, continuing until the end of their service day. Routes 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 34 and 35 will follow their regular routes and schedules as vehicular and pedestrian traffic will allow.
Route [...]
Beginning tonight, visit
www.urel.ufl.edu/production/photography/multimedia.html for a photo slideshow of events surrounding the BCS National Championship football game in Miami. New images will be posted periodically through Thursday night.
The No. 2 Gators will attempt to capture their second national championship title in three years with a win over No. 1 Oklahoma on Thursday at Dolphin [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Gator fans are invited to attend the University of Florida women’s basketball game Thursday at the O’Connell Center and stay to watch a simulcast of the FedEx BCS National Championship football game between the Gators and the University of Oklahoma.
Doors at the O’Connell Center will open at all four gates at 4 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Larry Arrington, dean and director of the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension, has been named interim senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources, UF President Bernie Machen announced today.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Flu season is officially on campus. The Student Health Care Center (SHCC) confirmed its first flu case in late November.
In order to safeguard students and faculty from catching the flu, the SHCC recommends that everyone receive a flu shot. Here are the top five reasons:
The flu shot protects against three different strains [...]