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The Good Food Purchasing Program has helped Alachua County Public Schools invest nearly $1 million to increase nutrition in school cafeterias.
Read More »Alachua County schools are working to increase accessibility of local food for students
Research on glaciers in Florida? Yes, and a UF professor is using machine learning to do so
Mickey MacKie, an assistant professor in the University of Florida's Department of Geological Sciences, uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze data about glaciers and ice sheets to make predictions and interpretations at one UF's newest labs.
Read More »Bill to require Florida higher education institutions to change accrediting organizations
TALLAHASSEE — A Senate bill approved Tuesday would require colleges and universities to change accrediting organizations at the end of each accreditation cycle, a proposal that drew skepticism from Democrats. The Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee voted 6-3 along party lines to support the bill (SPB 7044), which came after the …
Read More »Alachua County superintendent’s contract will be reviewed following board members’ negative evaluations
For now, her job is safe. But an impending evaluation lies ahead.
Read More »The removal of ‘Maus’ from a Tennessee school district is catching Floridians’ attention
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Spiegelman’s relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, by depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. The McMinn County School Board reportedly objected to eight curse words and nude imagery of a woman, used in the depiction of the author’s mother's suicide, according to NPR.
Read More »Recent UF academic freedom infringements follow trend of collusion against faculty, professors say
Open discourse has a checkered history on campus.
Read More »‘We need to connect with our hands’: A Gainesville potter’s passion becomes a lifestyle
Kate Murray thoroughly stirs the watery powdered rock, known as glaze, with her hand before carefully dipping a small ceramic plate halfway, coating it in the golden rust color liquid. The surprising transformation comes later: the plate becomes a green ash after it is heated in the kiln, a chamber …
Read More »Alachua County’s land conservation program closed on largest single land purchase in decades
Alachua County’s land conservation program closed the largest single land purchase in 22 years. Nearly 4,000 acres were added to the Lochloosa Slough Preserve. WUFT’s Alexus Cleavenger takes out to the preserve and the land surrounding.
Read More »Black History Month festivities begin in Gainesville
February is the month America commemorates Black heritage. WUFT’s Isabella Leandri tells us how Gainesville is starting the celebration.
Read More »Loften High school students get a head start at firefighting
Loften High School senior Winter Menuey will be one step closer to becoming a firefighter after earning her EMR certification through the school’s fire academy. “What made me want to join is my dad is a firefighter, so it kind of runs in the family,” Menuey said. “There is no …
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