Category: Feature

Nominations open for 2024 Champions for Change Awards

Hosted by the UF Office of Sustainability and the Healthy Gators Coalition, the Champions for Change Awards celebrate those who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation, and dedication to driving positive change in sustainability or health and wellness while at the University of Florida.

The nomination period for the 2024 Champions for Change Awards runs now through March 18.

Faculty and staff basketball tickets now available

The Florida Gators are back in action, hitting the basketball court with games against LSU, Arkansas, Alabama and more scheduled now through March. UF faculty and staff have the opportunity to secure their tickets for either $5 or $10. Visit the Florida Gators website to purchase your tickets today.

Our resolution: To help make UF’s dreams come true

As we enter a new year and a new semester, there’s no question the University of Florida is on the move at an unprecedented pace — and our momentum truly is unstoppable.

The vision of UF becoming an AI University hatched just a few years ago is now a full-fledged reality, complete with groundbreaking new initiatives and a beautiful building in the heart of campus to bring our university’s AI dreams to fruition. A newly announced multidisciplinary strategic sports initiative is the latest in a mind-blowing series of proposed endeavors put into motion over the last several months through President Sasse’s strategic funding initiative. And that’s just scratching the surface…

Happy New Year! Find your focus to meet your 2024 wellness goals

A new year brings new opportunities to focus on your well-being and establish healthy habits. To support you along the way, we invite you to explore the upcoming programs and events below.

Verify your 2024 benefits elections

Have you verified your benefits deductions? Any changes you made during the annual open enrollment period will be reflected on your December and January payroll statements. Deductions for the 2024 calendar year began with the Dec. 1 paycheck.

Discounted CSA memberships available for Spring 2024

Through a new partnership with UF/IFAS, we’re offering a limited number of discounts to Gainesville-area Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, programs this spring. With a CSA membership, you can support a local farm and receive a box of high quality produce each week.

The first 100 faculty and staff who sign up for the program by this Friday, Dec. 15, will receive a $100 discount off the price of a spring share from either Frog Song Organics or Siembra Farm. Those who participate will also be invited to participate in Healthy Harvest: Cultivating Local and Seasonal Flavors, a pilot educational program being developed with support from the UF/IFAS Support for Emerging Enterprise Development Integration Teams (SEEDIT).

WUFT team wins Florida Government Productivity Award

Florida TaxWatch, the Florida Council of 100 and the state of Florida awarded a Florida Government Productivity Award to the WUFT / Florida Public Radio Emergency Network (FPREN) team, composed of UF College of Journalism and Communications Division of Media Properties Executive Director Randy Wright, Chief Meteorologist and FPREN Director Jeff George, and Senior Multimedia Meteorologist Megan Borowski.

Explore Spring 2024 training opportunities

UF Training & Organizational Development recently released its Spring 2024 schedule of courses.

In addition to exploring courses thematically via the UFHR Learn & Grow website, you can also visit the digital training calendar to view at-a-glance upcoming trainings scheduled throughout the month.

UF community invited for lighting of the Holiday Gator

The UF community is invited to the Lighting of the Holiday Gator from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today on the lawn of the University Auditorium near the corner of Newell Drive and Union Road.

UF President Ben Sasse, Ph.D., will lead the countdown to the ceremonial lighting of the sculpture, which will glow with orange and blue LED lights throughout the remainder of the academic year, until Dec. 16.

Taylor Munson: “I would not be where I am today without the EEP”

Taylor Munson began her journey with the University of Florida as a volunteer at UF Health Jacksonville. Just over four years later, she now works as a clinical research coordinator III in the department of Emergency Medicine Research and holds a master’s degree from the University of North Florida — successes she credits in part to UF’s Employee Education Program, or EEP.

Read on to learn more about her experience with the program.