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a Pequot artifact excavated from the banks of the Connecticut River

Story Keeper

Historian receives UF Distinguished Alumnus Award for colonial histories. The Pequot were an indigenous people who inhabited what is now southeastern Connecticut. Much of the tribe was largely lost to war and slavery between the 17th and 19th centuries, and academics have debated the cause of the battle between the Pequot and the Puritans. Historian […]

Portrait of Stephanie Abrams

In Any Weather

By Gigi Marino Stephanie Abrams ’99 hasn’t taken a sick day in nearly 14 years. If she’s feeling under-the-weather, she has to put on her TV face because, for many, she is the face of the weather. Co-host of The Weather Channel’s America’s Morning Headquarters, Abrams grew up in West Palm Beach. As a child, […]

portrait of Martin Maldonado in front of stone wall

Alumni Profile — Martin Maldonado

Alumni Martin Maldonado empowers the poor with technology.

Portrait of Nirav Patel with the global gator statue

Alumni Profile — Nirav Nikunj Patel

Alumni Nirav Nikunj Patel proves the motto "If you can dream it, you can do it," true.

Gator Good — Michelle Piazza

Alumna Michelle Piazza is inspired to give back.

A beam with signatures, people gathered in background

Topping Out

Hundreds turn out to leave their mark on new chemistry building Almost a year after the groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Florida’s new chemistry/chemical biology at the corner of University Avenue and Buckman Drive, hundreds gathered to leave their signature on a one-ton beam that will be placed on the tallest portion of the […]

A group of men hold shovels at the ceremonial groundbreaking

Groundbreaking Science

UF breaks ground for long awaited chemistry building. The University of Florida will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new chemistry/chemical biology building at 11 a.m. Friday at the corner of University Avenue and Buckman Drive. The facility will provide 110,000 square feet of space for undergraduate and graduate education, including an entire floor devoted […]