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The Lombardi Scholars Program, created in and named in honor of the university's ninth president John V. Lombardi , is a merit scholarship for Florida students. The J. Wayne Reitz Scholars Program, created in and named in honor of the university's fifth president J. Wayne Reitz , is a leadership and merit-based scholarship for Florida students. This is a full grant and scholarship financial aid package designed to help new, low-income UF students that are the first to attend college in their families.
In , the University of Florida became a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for environmental and wildlife management, resource conservation, environmental education, waste management, and outreach. Through long-term environmental initiatives, the University of Florida created an Office of Sustainability in They have stated their goals are to produce zero waste by and to achieve Carbon Neutrality by The university maintains a number of facilities apart from its main campus.
Florida consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in licensing. Research includes diverse areas such as health-care and citrus production the world's largest citrus research center.
The University of Florida has made great strides in the space sciences over the last decade. Faculty members in organic chemistry have made notable discoveries in astrobiology, while faculty members in physics have participated actively in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory project, the largest and most ambitious project ever funded by the NSF. The University of Florida manges or has a stake in numerous notable research centers, facilities, institutes, and projects.
The university's Office of Technology Licensing will relocate to Innovation Square, joining Florida Innovation Hub, a business "super-incubator designed to promote the development of new high-tech companies based on the university's research programs. Innovation Square will include retail space, restaurants and local businesses, and residential space. University of Florida Health has two campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville. It includes two teaching hospitals and two specialty hospitals, as well as the colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine, including a large animal hospital and a small animal hospital.
UF Health is the only academic health center in the United States with six health-related colleges on a single, contiguous campus. Patient-care services are provided through the private, not-for-profit UF Health Shands family of hospitals and programs. UF Health Jacksonville is the system's northeast Florida center. In all, 6, students are enrolled in all six of the colleges.
McKnight Brain Institute is also part of the Health Science Center and is the most comprehensive program of its kind in the world. The Institute comprises faculty members from 10 colleges, and 51 departments campus-wide. In December Expertscape recognized it as 4 in the world for expertise in Diabetes Mellitus Type 1.
UF Health Jacksonville is an academic health center with three UF colleges, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, as well as a network of primary and specialty care centers in northeast Florida and southeast Georgia. In , Orlando Health and UF Health teamed up to form joint clinical programs in the areas of pediatrics, neuroscience, oncology, women's health, transplantation and cardiovascular medicine. The partnership provides undergraduate and graduate medical residency and fellowship training opportunities at Orlando Health, and will allow Orlando Health physicians and patients to be part of clinical trials through UF's clinical research program.
The center focuses on developing safe, individualized molecular-based targeted oncology therapies to improve patient outcomes in Florida. The joint oncology program offers clinical trial collaborations and comprehensive cancer services customized to the patient by combining physicians and the collective strengths of UF Health and Orlando Health. About 10 are stationed in Geneva.
The group is the largest from any university in the U. The detector, the Muon system, is intended to capture subatomic particles called muons, which are heavier cousins of electrons. Among other efforts, UF scientists analyzed about of the detector chambers placed within the Muon system to be sure they were functioning properly.
Scientists from the University of Florida group played a central role in the discovery of the Higgs particle. The bulk of the UF research was funded by the U. Department of Energy. In July , the University of Florida teamed up with the Zhejiang University to research sustainable solutions to the Earth's energy issues.
Florida has more lightning than any other U. One of their primary research tools is lightning initiation from overhead thunderclouds, using the triggered lightning rocket-and-wire technique. Small sounding rockets, connected to long copper wires, are fired into likely lightning storm cumulonimbus clouds. When the rocket—or its wire—is struck by lightning, the passing of the high-voltage lightning strike down the wire vaporizes it as the lightning travels to the ground. Undergraduate and graduate research in UF's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Lightning Research Group is used to increase new fundamental knowledge about lightning-based phenomena.
Now renamed the SECU , the initiative was a collaborative endeavor designed to promote research, scholarship and achievement among the member universities in the Southeastern conference. Its goals include highlighting the endeavors and achievements of SEC faculty , students and its universities and advancing the academic reputation of SEC universities. The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida is one of the largest university library systems in the United States.
An increasing number of the collections are digital and are accessible on the Internet from the library web page or the library catalog. Smathers Libraries support all academic programs except those served by the Levin College of Law. Such progress is represented by its state-of-the-art Information Commons, [] which offers production studios, digital media computing areas, and a presentation area.
The University of Florida campus encompasses over 2, acres 8. The Reitz is the campus union at the University of Florida. On February 1, , it was reopened after an extensive renovation and expansion.
A number of the University of Florida's buildings are historically significant. The University of Florida Campus Historic District comprises 19 buildings and encompasses approximately acres 2. Yonge Laboratory School , are also listed on the historic register. National Register of Historic Places for their architectural or historic significance are:.
PaCE was designed to provide an alternative way to enroll students who would have been accepted through regular admissions, but there is not enough space in dorms or classrooms. PaCE was randomly given to admitted students based on major. Through PaCE, students are admitted to UF, but are required to complete 60 credit hours and all of their prerequisite courses through UF online before transitioning to on-campus learning.
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The Innovation Academy at UF is a program designed for students that want to focus on innovation, creativity, leadership, and entrepreneurship along with their intended major. Students that enroll in the Innovation Academy go to UF during the spring and summer semesters so that they can participate in internships and study abroad opportunities during the fall. The Order of Omega has a chapter at the university. Some of the fraternity chapters on campus are older than the university itself, with the first chapters being chartered in and founded on the campus of one of the university's predecessor institutions in Lake City.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council comprises nine historically black organizations, five fraternities and four sororities. In early the Panhellenic Council announced the arrival of two new sororities. Dance Marathon at UF is an annual Officially founded in , it is one of the oldest such programs in the nation. The unit is one of the oldest in the nation, and is at Van Fleet Hall.
The Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Florida offers training in the military sciences to students who desire to perform military service after they graduate. The Departments of the Army , Air Force , and Navy each maintain a Reserve Officers Training Corps and each individual department has a full staff of military personnel. The University of Florida provides over 9, students with housing in residence halls and complexes on the eastern and western sides of campus.
Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities. The university also provides housing to a number of graduate students and their families. The University of Florida's Department of Recreational Sports RecSports includes operation of two lake-front parks at Lake Wauburg, group fitness, personal and small group training, massage therapy, intramural sports, 51 competitive sports clubs, two world-class indoor fitness and recreation facilities, four campus pools, outdoor rock climbing, an adventure travel recreation program, campus fields and facilities, a skate park and staff development services for over students who are employed by the department's programs.
Outside of RecSports, campus recreation options include an arts and crafts center, bowling alley and game room—all in the J. The University of Florida Student Government is the governing body of students who attend the University of Florida, representing the university's nearly 50, undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
The student government was established in and consists of executive, judicial and unicameral legislative branches. The alma mater for the University of Florida was composed by Milton Yeats in Students, faculty, and staff with university-issued ID cards are able to use the system for no additional fee. P, and Later Gator nighttime service. The Gainesville region and the university are served by the Gainesville Regional Airport , which is in northeast Gainesville and has daily flights to Miami , Atlanta and Charlotte. The University of Florida community includes six major student-run media outlets and companion Web sites.
Various other journals and magazines are published by the university's academic units and student groups, including the literary journal Subtropics. Its mission is to assist students and alumni who are seeking career development, career experiences, and employment opportunities.
Staff also counsel students and alumni regarding resumes and portfolios, interviewing tactics, cover letters, job strategies and other potential leads for finding employment in the corporate, academic and government sectors. The Princeton Review ranked the Career Resource Center as the best among ranked universities in career and job placement services in , [] and fourth overall in The Florida Museum of Natural History , established in , is one of the country's oldest natural history museums and was officially chartered by the state of Florida.
In the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity was opened after a generous donation from University of Florida benefactors. The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art , established in , is also at the University of Florida on the southwest part of campus. The museum's permanent collections are focused on Asian , African , modern and contemporary art , as well as photography. Performing arts venues at the University of Florida include the Curtis M.
The auditorium has a concert stage and can seat up to patrons. The venue is suitable for musical concerts , special lectures , convocations , dance concerts, and pageants. The Phillips Center for the Performing Arts was founded in and is a performing arts theatre. The Phillips Center is on the western side of campus, and hosts established and emerging national and international artists on the main stage, as well as the annual Miss University of Florida pageant and performances by the University of Florida's original student-run dance company, Floridance.
Constans Theatre was founded in and is a performing arts venue next to the J. Wayne Reitz Union.
Constans Theatre serves as a venue for musical concerts, theater, dance, and lectures, and is a sub-venue of the Nadine McGuire Pavilion and Dance Pavilion. The Baughman Center was founded in and serves as a venue for small musical and performing arts events. The facility consists of two buildings next to Lake Alice on the western portion of campus.
The Baughman Center can accommodate up to 96 patrons. The University of Florida has been portrayed in several books, [] [] movies [] and television shows. In addition, the University of Florida campus has been the backdrop for a number of different books and movies.
Robert Cade , a professor in the university's College of Medicine , was the leader of the research team that invented the sports drink Gatorade as a hydration supplement for the Florida Gators football team in — The Florida Gators have won a total of thirty-five national team championships, [] thirty of which are NCAA championships. The University of Florida fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of , when the university held its first classes on its new Gainesville campus.
The Gators won their first post-season game on January 1, , beating Tulsa 14—13 in Jacksonville, Florida. In , Spurrier returned to his alma mater as its new head coach, and spurred the Gators to their first six official SEC football championships.