Category: UF Focus

Stand Up & Holler: It’s Gator Nation Giving Day

Gator Nation Giving Day is a 24-hour fundraising event, calling on all UF alumni, students, faculty, staff, families and friends to come together to support UF and all its areas of positive impact in our state, nation and world. Today, Gators everywhere are invited to, once again, stand up for UF by making a gift of any size to the college, unit, research area or program that means the most to you.

The Gator Nation is everywhere, but we’re strongest together!

All early donors from now until Feb. 19 will qualify to receive exclusive Gator-branded goods, including this year’s Giving Day lapel pin.

UF researchers help Floridians build resilience against hurricanes, health hazards, inequality

Read on to learn how UF researchers are helping Florida’s most vulnerable residents through research initiatives and community outreach programs.

College of Nursing launches Elevate 2029

The College of Nursing’s new four-year strategic plan, Elevate 2029, expands on its core values and charts a course toward making the college the best in the nation.

Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program

UF’s Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program seeks to provide students and employees support regarding the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol.

Strategic Communications Academy kicks off April 17

Designed for UF, UF Health and UF/IFAS faculty and staff, the Strategic Communications Academy includes one-on-one coaching and the opportunity to build your skills by applying what you learn to projects that are important to you. Sign up today and take the first step toward transforming your communications — and your impact.

Nationally traveling exhibition from Spelman comes to the Harn

The Harn Museum of Art will display “Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection” from Feb. 4 to July 6.

Cup o’ Joe: The road trip episode

Join Interim Provost Joe Glover, Ph.D., on a frigid road trip to the beach to see what’s happening at UF’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in Cup o’ Joe’s third episode. Meet Whitney’s new director, check out its new building, hear from its researchers … and experience encounters with salad (and marine animals).

UF Health Type 1 diabetes researchers contribute to international guidelines

Michael Haller, M.D., chief of pediatric endocrinology in the UF College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and a member of the UF Diabetes Institute, led an international team of Type 1 diabetes experts to develop new treatment guidelines emphasizing wider screening for the disease among children and adolescents in the general population before symptoms arise.

One of higher education’s fastest supercomputers arrives at the University of Florida

The first components of HiPerGator AI 2.0, expected to be one of the country’s fastest university-owned supercomputers, arrived last week at UF’s Data Center.