Three members of the University of Florida Division of Student Affairs have won university-level Superior Accomplishment Awards, a competitive honor that recognizes 16 top staff members for outstanding service, efficiency and impact. Jenna Gonzalez, recently appointed interim director of the Disability Resource Center, and Dr. Stephani Jahn, a clinical assistant…
Virtual Statewide Job Fair on June 10 will feature more than 200 employers nationwide
Career centers at Florida’s 12 public universities, led by the University of Florida’s Career Connections Center, will virtually host the 2021 Virtual Statewide Job Fair on June 10 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Current students and alumni from the participating institutions can register to attend at no cost beginning…
Upgrades to Peabody Hall, UF’s fourth-oldest building, include key spaces for student services
Peabody Hall, built in 1913 and located on the southeastern corner of the Plaza of the Americas, was first home to the University of Florida’s education college. After a stint as the printing site for the student newspaper, the building was added to the U.S. National Register for Historic Places…
“What were you wearing?” exhibit refutes idea that victims’ clothes provoke sexual violence
From pajamas to exercise clothing, outfits on black backdrops accompany 19 brief accounts of sexual violence against University of Florida students. The exhibit – titled “What were you wearing?” – rebukes assumptions that revealing clothing could have been partly to blame for the attacks. It will be on display in the…
Kim Pace, highest-ranking Asian American woman at UF, reflects on her roots
Colleagues know Kim Pace as an authority on University of Florida matters: She either knows the answer or can pinpoint who does. As the assistant vice president for the Division of Student Affairs, Pace is the highest-ranking Asian American woman at the university to date. But she said she looks…
UF Recreational Sports earns top recognition from American College of Sports Medicine
The University of Florida was among 73 college campuses worldwide to receive gold-level recognition by the American College of Sports Medicine’s Exercise is Medicine initiative. This marks the third consecutive year that UF has won the top award. The Exercise is Medicine initiative, part of the largest sports medicine and…
Journeys, destinations and identities in the art of Monsur Awotunde
Monsur Awotunde‘s interest in art sprang from a natural talent for drawing. From childhood, he was inspired by the colors, textures and flavors around him. As his surroundings changed, so did his work. “I’m an artist in transit,” he said. “And my work is a traveler, too. We travel together.”…
UF Disability Resource Center to hire full-time sign language interpreters
The Disability Resource Center at the University of Florida is recruiting full-time American Sign Language interpreters. The new hires will interpret classes for students who are deaf and hard of hearing in addition to supporting campus events. UF will be the only university in Florida with several full-time interpreters, setting…
Student Q&A: Why did you choose UF?
Students were photographed in accordance with CDC guidelines and UF policies on masking and physical distancing. Raeza Horn-Muller is a third-year sociology and sustainability studies major at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Vasishta Akinapalli is a first-year engineering major at the Herbert Wertheim College…
Student Q&A: Why did you choose UF?
Thomas Chase is a first-year student at the University of Florida from Gainesville, Florida. He studies mechanical engineering at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and plans to apply for the college’s combined-degree program in his third year to earn his master’s and bachelor’s degrees simultaneously. We asked him about…