GAINESVILLE — Florida takes center stage into the chase for cures to today’s most devastating illnesses — especially brain and spinal cord problems — with this week’s opening of one of the nation’s most comprehensive and technologically advanced centers devoted to neuroscience.
GAINESVILLE — Up to 100 University of Florida students and staff are the testing grounds for the world’s first trial of a new residential telecommunications technology that enables an ordinary telephone line to also become a high-speed data connection, providing speeds 30 times faster than today’s fastest dial-up modems.
GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida for the first time will hold three separate commencement ceremonies Saturday (5/2), marking the end of the spring term. The change was made to accommodate the number of spring graduates and allow their families and friends the opportunity to attend the ceremony.
GAINESVILLE — The Promos Hotel Corp., through its Doubletree Hotel subsidiary, announced today it has finalized an agreement with the University of Florida to manage a hotel and conference center on the western edge of campus.
GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida this week selected three national companies to provide “Gator-Ready” computers for students entering the university under its new computer access requirement.
GAINESVILLE — Retired U.S. Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf will receive an honorary doctorate in public service from the University of Florida next month.
GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida is among 29 institutions to be connected to a high-speed network that will allow scientists and engineers across the country to share powerful computing and information resources, President Clinton announced Thursday.