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UF News - 1/30/07
Classes portable on podcasts
By MEGAN MILLER - Alligator Contributing Writer
For business students who would rather have class on their own time than in a lecture hall, UF is offering a new option.
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January 2007 UF News Archive
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Gator Football - 1/1/07
'Godmother To The Gators'
The woman who made less than $2 an hour had an idea, and the University of Florida's football coaches listened.
At a meeting in 1980, Florida coach Charley Pell and assistants Joe Kines and Sonny McGraw gave their full attention to
the minimum-wage secretary they'd hired the previous year to keep track of Florida's recruiting efforts. Betty Ling had dreamed up a new way to impress visiting prospects by imagining what might sway her to choose Florida over another school. |
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UF News - 1/3/07
UF president helps to lead nationwide effort to curb global warming
University of Florida President Bernie Machen is among a dozen college and university presidents hoping to persuade
other academic leaders nationwide to sign a pledge to curtail global warming. |
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UF News 1/5/07
Title game a tough ticket for Gator fans
Dino Farfante holds the key to happiness.
Twenty of them, to be precise.
That's how many tickets he has to the BCS National Championship Game. Thousands of Florida fans would tightrope-walk
across the Grand Canyon to merely gaze at one. Showing his orange-and-blue blood, Farfante is almost giving them away. |
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UF News - 1/6/07
UF study: Teacher merit pay boosts student standardized test scores
A carrot for teachers helps students stick to the books, according to a new University of Florida study that finds merit pay
for instructors equates to better test scores for their pupils. |
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UF News - 1/10/07
Football celebration to be capped off with basketball on the big screen
Gator fans attending Saturday's BCS National Championship Celebration at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium will have the added
bonus of watching the men's basketball game on the big screens immediately following the celebration. |
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UF News - 1/14/07
Swamped by cheers
Chris Leak nearly cried.
As he stood on the temporary stage near Florida Field's south end zone Saturday afternoon, the senior quarterback
needed a moment to compose himself before he could say anything to the estimated 50,000 fans who had gathered to celebrate the Gators' national football championship.
Twice, Leak began to speak but had to stop.
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UF News - 1/17/07
UF to research stem cell treatments for heart disease
University of Florida researchers will play a key role in a new national network designed to study stem cell treatments in
patients with cardiovascular disease.
As part of a five-member consortium known as the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network, UF scientists will seek
to identify and test new cell therapies.. |
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UF News - 1/19/07
University of Florida to dedicate Library West on Jan. 26
The dedication ceremony for the renovated and expanded humanities and social sciences library, Library West, will be
held at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 26 in the library on the University of Florida campus. |
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UF News - 1/19/07
University of Florida receives record $30 million gift
A graduate of the first class of the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business Administration's master's of
business administration program in 1948 is remembering the roots of his success by giving $30 million to graduate business programs. |
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UF News - 1/23/07
Fifty-foot smoking rule extended to all UF campus buildings
The University of Florida is expanding the coverage of its outdoor smoking restrictions to include all campus buildings.
Effective today, smoking is prohibited within 50 feet of every campus building.
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UF News - 1/24/07
Ticket prices going up
The price for a seat in The Swamp has gone up.
The UF ticket office announced Tuesday a slight increase in season and single-game ticket prices for the 2007 football
season. |
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UF News - 1/30/07
Students vie to be Albert
SIX PEOPLE TRIED OUT FOR THE POSITION.
By JESSIE COLEMAN Alligator Writer
Walter Regan, a judge in the tryouts for UF mascot Albert the Alligator, critiques a contestant's dance moves while
Alberta dances along. David Rountree pretended to be coy at first, timidly peeking his large green snout out from behind two fake trees that he used as props. |