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Sexual violence needs to stop Opinions generic Photo by Aubrey Bocalan | The Independent Florida Alligator A simple but often overlooked truth is that sexual assault is the responsibility of the perpetrators. Yet time and time again, sexual assault survivors are scrutinized and held responsible for what perpetrators chose to do to them. Discussions of sex...
UF’s first gender-neutral Living Learning Community will officially open to students this Summer LGBTQ+ identifying UF students will have access to various amenities to facilitate a support network within the community and at the university. Graphic by Shelby Cotta After scrolling through different housing options when applying to UF, the name Lavender Living Learning Community caught Kate Eggenberg’s eye. “I was curious about what the Lavender LLC was, and I kind of knew that ‘lavender’ was a queer coded word,’” the 18-year-old UF computer science in...
She turned her audacious lens on herself, and shaped the future Laura Aguilar, Los Illegals, 1984. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the artist and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center © Laura Aguilar. by Holland Cotter (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- It feels good a relief to know that photographer Laura Aguilar, who died in 2018, lived long enough to see her fine career survey, which opened a year earlier in her hometown Los Angeles and has now, at last, landed in New York. Its a movingly, sometimes discomfortingly intimate show. To know Aguilars art is, to an unusual d...
University of Florida is a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars The University of Florida is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Scholars. Each year the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces the top producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. Five UF’s scholars were awarded Fulbright awards for 2020-2021, ranking the University of Florida 7th (shared place), more than any other un...
UF in the early stages of AI transformation The $70 million supercomputer is currently available to researchers, but AI courses for students will be available Fall 2021 Photo by Ashley Hicks | The Independent Florida Alligator As soon as Fall 2021, UF students can learn how to use artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, remove bias from algorithms and advance social justice. U...