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University of Florida

September 27, 2023

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The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. The university traces its origins to 1853[12] and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906.[13]

University of Florida
Former names
East Florida Seminary (1853–1861; 1866–1905)
Florida Agricultural College (1884–1903)
University of Florida at Lake City (1903–1905)
St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School (1893–1905)
South Florida Military and Educational College (1894–1905)
University of the State of Florida (1905–1909)[1]
MottoCivium in moribus rei publicae salus (Latin)
On seal: "In God We Trust"
Motto in English
"The welfare of the state depends upon the morals of its citizens"[note 1]
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedJanuary 6, 1853; 170 years ago (January 6, 1853)[note 2]
Parent institution
State University System of Florida
AccreditationSACS
Academic affiliations
Endowment$2.379 billion (2021)[5]
Budget$6 billion (2019)[6]
PresidentBen Sasse
ProvostJoseph Glover
Academic staff
8,231 (2018)[7]
Administrative staff
6,556 (2018)[7]
Students55,211 (fall 2022)[8]
Undergraduates34,552 (fall 2022)[8]
Postgraduates20,659 (fall 2022)[8]
Location
Gainesville
,
Florida
,
United States

29°38′51″N 82°20′42″W / 29.6475°N 82.3450°W / 29.6475; -82.3450
CampusMidsize city, 2,000 acres (810 ha)
Other campuses[9][10]
NewspaperThe Independent Florida Alligator
ColorsOrange and blue[11]
   
NicknameGators
Sporting affiliations
MascotAlbert and Alberta Gator
Websitewww.ufl.edu

After the Florida state legislature's creation of performance standards in 2013, the Florida Board of Governors designated the University of Florida as a "preeminent university".[14][15] The University of Florida is one of three members of the Association of American Universities in Florida and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[16][17]

The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). It is the third largest Florida university by student population[18] and is the fifth largest single-campus university in the United States with 57,841 students enrolled for during the 2020–21 school year.[19] The University of Florida is home to 16 academic colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. It offers multiple graduate professional programs—including business administration, engineering, law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine—on one contiguous campus and administers 123 master's degree programs and 76 doctoral degree programs in 87 schools and departments. The university's seal is also the seal of the state of Florida, which is on the state flag, though in blue rather than multiple colors.

The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, the Florida Gators, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). As of 2021, University of Florida students and alumni have won 143 Olympic medals, including 69 gold medals.[20]

History Edit

Main article: History of the University of Florida
 
The East Florida Seminary, re-established in Gainesville in 1866, was the direct predecessor to the University of Florida.

Origins Edit

The modern University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of its four predecessor institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida.[21] The East Florida Seminary was Florida's first state-supported institution of higher learning and operated until 1861 with the outbreak of the American Civil War.[22] In 1866, the East Florida Seminary reopened in Gainesville at the former grounds of the Gainesville Academy, a small private college that had also closed during the war.[note 3]

The second major precursor to the University of Florida was Florida Agricultural College (FAC), which was the state's first land-grant college under the Morrill Act when it was established in Lake City in 1884. The Florida Legislature, looking to expand FAC's curriculum beyond its agricultural and engineering offerings, changed the school's name to the "University of Florida" for the 1903–1904 academic year. It would use that name for the remaining two years of its existence.[23][note 4]

"University of the State of Florida" Edit

In 1905, the Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act, which completely reorganized the state's publicly supported institutions of higher education. Under the act, Florida's six existing state-supported institutions were abolished and reorganized to form the State University System of Florida under the newly established Florida Board of Control. Four institutions were combined to create a new "University of the State of Florida" for white men: the University of Florida at Lake City (formerly Florida Agricultural College), the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School in St. Petersburg, and the South Florida Military College in Bartow.[24]

The Buckman Act also created two other institutions segregated by race and gender: Florida Female College (later the Florida State College for Women and then Florida State University) for white women and the State Normal School for Colored Students (later Florida A&M) for African-American men and women, both in Tallahassee.[25]

The Buckman Act did not specify where the new University of the State of Florida would be located. The City of Gainesville, led by its mayor William Reuben Thomas, campaigned to be the site of the new university, with its primary competitor being Lake City.[26] After a brief but intense period of lobbying, the Board of Control selected Gainesville on July 6, 1905, and funds were allocated for the construction of a new campus on the western edge of the town. However, because the campus would take several months to build, the new school was housed on the campus of the now-defunct Florida Agricultural College in Lake City during the 1905–1906 academic year. Former FAC president Andrew Sledd was chosen to be the first president of the University of the State of Florida.

The University of the State of Florida's first semester in Gainesville began on September 26, 1906, with an enrollment of 102 students. Two buildings had been completed at the time: Buckman Hall, named after the primary author of the law that created the university, and Thomas Hall, named after the mayor of Gainesville who had led the successful effort to bring the school to town.[27] Both structures were designed by William A. Edwards, who designed many of the university's original buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style in his role as lead architect for Florida's Board of Control.[28]

Growth, mascots, and establishment of colleges Edit

 
An early Florida Gators football practice in 1912
 
The University of Florida campus in 1916, looking southwest
 
Statue of Albert Murphree, the second president of the university

During his term, first university president Andrew Sledd often clashed with key members of the Board of Control over his insistence on rigorous admittance requirements, which his detractors claimed was unreasonably impeding school enrollment. Sledd resigned over these issues in 1909.

Florida State College for Women president Albert Murphree was named UF's second president before the 1909–1910 academic year, which was also when the school's name was simplified from the "University of the State of Florida" to the "University of Florida". Murphree oversaw a reorganization of the university that included the establishment of several colleges, beginning with colleges of law, engineering, and liberal arts and sciences by 1910. Murphree was also instrumental in the founding of the Florida Blue Key leadership society and in building total enrollment from under 200 to over 2000. He is the only University of Florida president honored with a statue on campus.

The alligator became the school's informal mascot when a local vendor designed and sold school pennants imprinted with the animal, which is very common in lakes in and around Gainesville and throughout the state. The 'gator was a popular choice, and the university's sports teams had officially adopted the nickname by 1911. The school colors of orange and blue were also officially established in 1911, though the reasons for the choice are unclear. The most likely rationale was that they are a combination of the colors of the university's two largest predecessor institutions, as the East Florida Seminary used orange and black while Florida Agricultural College used blue and white.[29] The older schools' colors may have been an homage to early Scottish and Ulster-Scots Presbyterian settlers of north central Florida, whose ancestors were originally from Northern Ireland and the Scottish Lowlands.[30][31][32]

In 1924, the Florida Legislature mandated women of a "mature age" (at least twenty-one years old) who had completed sixty semester hours from a "reputable educational institution" be allowed to enroll during regular semesters at the University of Florida in programs that were unavailable at Florida State College for Women. Before this, only the summer semester was coeducational, to accommodate women teachers who wanted to further their education during the summer break.[33] Lassie Goodbread-Black from Lake City became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida, in the College of Agriculture in 1925.[34]

Murphree died in 1928 and John J. Tigert was named UF's third president. Disgusted by the under-the-table payments being made by universities to athletes, Tigert established the grant-in-aid athletic scholarship program in the early 1930s, which was the genesis of the modern athletic scholarship plan used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.[35] Inventor and educator Blake R. Van Leer was hired as Dean to launch new engineering departments and scholarships. Van Leer also managed all applications for federal funding, chaired the Advanced Planning Committee per Tigert's request. These efforts included consulting for the Florida Emergency Relief Administration throughout the 1930s.[36][37]

Post World War II Edit

 
Smathers Library, University of Florida campus circa 1945.
 
Floyd Hall and Leigh Hall, University of Florida campus in 1957.
 
Century Tower, begun in 1953, commemorates the 100th anniversary of origins of UF and memorializes students and alumni who died in the World Wars

Beginning in 1946, there was dramatically increased interest among male applicants who wanted to attend the University of Florida, mostly returning World War II veterans who could attend college under the GI Bill of Rights (Servicemen's Readjustment Act). Unable to immediately accommodate this increased demand, the Florida Board of Control opened the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida on the campus of Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee.[38] By the end of the 1946–47 school year, 954 men were enrolled at the Tallahassee Branch. The following semester, the Florida Legislature returned the Florida State College for Women to coeducational status and renamed it Florida State University. These events also opened up all of the colleges that comprise the University of Florida to female students. Florida Women's Hall of Fame member Maryly Van Leer became the first woman to receive from the University of Florida a master's degree in engineering.[39][40] African-American students were allowed to enroll starting in 1958.[41] Shands Hospital opened in 1958 along with the University of Florida College of Medicine to join the established College of Pharmacy. Rapid campus expansion began in the 1950s and continues today.[42]

The University of Florida is one of three Florida public universities, along with Florida State University and the University of South Florida, to be designated as a "preeminent university" by Florida senate bill 1076, enacted by the Florida legislature and signed into law by the governor in 2013.[43][44] As a result, the preeminent universities receive additional funding to improve the academics and national reputation of higher education within the state of Florida.[45]

Integration Edit

From its inception until 1958, only white students were allowed to attend.[46] In 1958, George H. Starke became the first Black student.[47]

National and international prominence Edit

In 1985, the University of Florida received an invitation to become a member of the Association of American Universities.

During President Bernie Machen's tenure and with the backing of the University of Florida Board of Trustees, a significant policy shift was announced in 2009 for the university. This shift involved reducing the number of undergraduate students and reallocating financial and academic resources towards graduate education and research initiatives.[48] In 2017, the University of Florida achieved a notable milestone by becoming the first university in the state of Florida to rank among the top ten best public universities according to U.S. News.[49] In the 2022 fiscal year, the University of Florida received more than $1 billion in sponsored research expenditures.[50] In 2017, University President Kent Fuchs unveiled a plan to recruit 500 new faculty members with the aim of elevating the university's ranking among the top five best public universities. The majority of these new hires are concentrated in STEM fields. In 2018, 230 faculty members were hired, with the remaining 270 faculty positions expected to be filled by the fall of 2019.[51]

Academic freedom controversy Edit

In October 2021, three professors filed a federal lawsuit against UF, claiming they were barred from testifying in a voting rights lawsuit against Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee and Governor Ron DeSantis.[52][53] The university claimed that testifying against the state would be "adverse to the university’s interests as a state of Florida institution,"[54] igniting controversy over alleged inappropriate political influence at the university, interference in academic freedom, and violation of the professors' First Amendment rights. Earlier in the year, the chairman of UF's Board of Trustees, Morteza Hosseini, reportedly pushed the university to hire Joseph Ladapo, a controversial doctor known for his support of DeSantis's COVID-19 policies and promotion of COVID misinformation.[53] Hosseini is a major Republican Party donor and DeSantis adviser.[53]

The reports prompted investigations by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the UF Faculty Senate, and UF's accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC).[55][56] Further reporting in November 2021 revealed that the university had prohibited at least five more professors from offering expertise in legal cases, including a professor of pediatric medicine who was not allowed to offer expert testimony in a case related to masking of children during the COVID pandemic, a measure supported by medical experts but opposed by Governor DeSantis.[57][58]

In response to the allegations, UF's administration appointed a task force to "review the university's conflict of interest policy and examine it for consistency and fidelity" and reversed its decision to bar professors from testifying, stating that they were permitted to testify pro bono on their own time.[59] The recommendations of the task force were accepted by UF President Kent Fuchs in late November 2021.[60] However, a December 2021 report from the UF Faculty Senate deepened the controversy, citing external pressure and a widespread fear of reprisal if faculty promoted unpopular viewpoints and alleging that course titles on racial topics were edited, faculty were advised against criticizing Governor DeSantis or his policies, and medical researchers were compelled to destroy data related to the COVID pandemic.[61][62]

Academics Edit

Undergraduate admissions Edit

Fall first-time freshman admission statistics
  2022[63] 2020[64] 2019[65] 2018[66] 2017[67]
Applicants 64,473 48,193 38,069 38,905 32,747
Admits 15,054 15,002 13,925 15,077 13,758
Enrolls 6,612 6,333 6,554 6,801 6,428
Admit rate 23.3% 31.1% 36.6% 38.8% 42.0%
Yield rate 43.9% 42.2% 47.1% 45.1% 46.7%
SAT composite* 1320⁠–1470
(81%†)		 1310⁠–1450
(81%†)		 1320⁠–1450
(85%†)		 1280⁠–1440
(82%†)		 1240⁠–1400
(79%†)
ACT composite* 28–33
(41%†)		 29–33
(50%†)		 28–33
(50%†)		 27–32
(57%†)		 28–32
(71%†)
* middle 50% range
† percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit

The 2022 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report categorizes the University of Florida as "most selective."[68] For the Class of 2024 (enrolled fall 2020), Florida received 48,193 applications and accepted 15,002 (31.1%). Of those accepted, 6,333 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 42.2%. Florida's freshman retention rate is 97%, with 89% going on to graduate within six years.[69][70]

The enrolled first-year class of 2024 had the following standardized test scores: the middle 50% range (25th percentile-75th percentile) of SAT scores was 1310–1450, while the middle 50% range of ACT scores was 29–33.[69][71][72] The University of Florida has the second most selective application process of any university or college in the state of Florida, behind only the University of Miami.[73][74][75][76]

The University of Florida is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 288 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 342 freshman students were National Merit Scholars.[77] The university is need-blind for domestic applicants.[78]

In 2007, the University of Florida joined the University of Virginia, Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Princeton University in announcing the discontinuation of early decision admissions to foster economic diversity in their student bodies.[79] These universities assert early decision admissions forces students to accept an offer of admission before evaluating the financial aid offers from multiple universities. The university's single application deadline is November 1.[80]

Enrollment in UF (2017–2021)
Academic Year Undergraduates Graduate Total Enrollment
2017–2018[67] 35,247 17,422 52,669
2018–2019[66] 35,491 16,727 52,218
2019–2020[65] 35,405 17,002 52,407
2020–2021[64] 34,931 18,441 53,372
2022–2023[63] 34,552 20,659 55,211

Tuition and scholarships Edit

For the 2018–19 academic year tuition and fees were $6,381 for in-state undergraduate students, and $28,658 for out-of-state undergraduate students. Tuition for online courses is lower and for graduate courses is higher.[81]

The Lombardi Scholars Program, created in 2002 and named in honor of the university's ninth president John V. Lombardi, is a merit scholarship for Florida students. The scholarship offers $2,700 a semester for eight to ten semesters.[82][83]

The J. Wayne Reitz Scholars Program, created in 1997 and named in honor of the university's fifth president J. Wayne Reitz, is a leadership and merit-based scholarship for Florida students. Its yearly $2,500 stipend may be renewed for up to three years.[84][85]

The Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program was created in 2005. 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. Every year, 300 scholarships are awarded to incoming freshmen with an average family income of $18,408.[86]

The Alec Courtelis Award is given annually at the International Student Academics Awards Ceremony. The award is given to international students, in recognition of their academic excellence and outstanding contribution to the university and community. Louise Courtelis established the Alec Courtelis Award in honor of husband, a successful businessman and former chairman of the Florida Board of Regents in 1996.[87]

Rankings Edit

USN&WR Global Rankings[96]

Overall Global University Ranking 107
Agricultural Sciences 14
Arts & Humanities 150
Biology & Biochemistry 114
Chemistry 103
Clinical Medicine 100
Computer Science 117
Economics & Business 95
Electrical & Electronic Engineering 128
Engineering 113
Environment/Ecology 28
Geosciences 154
Immunology 129
Materials Science 170
Mathematics 185
Microbiology 62
Molecular Biology & Genetics 135
Neuroscience & Behavior 101
Pharmacology & Toxicology 50
Physics 116
Plant & Animal Science 4
Psychiatry/Psychology 99
Social Sciences & Public Health 102
Space Science 102
Surgery 68

In its 2021 edition, U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR) ranked the University of Florida as tied for the fifth-best public university in the United States, and tied for 28th overall among all national universities, public and private.[97]

Many of the University of Florida's graduate schools have received top-50 national rankings from U.S. News & World Report with the school of education 25th, Florida's Hough School of Business 25th, Florida's Medical School (research) tied for 43rd, the Engineering School tied for 45th, the Levin College of Law tied for 31st, and the Nursing School tied for 24th in the 2020 rankings.[98]

Florida's graduate programs ranked for 2020 by USN&WR in the nation's top 50 were audiology tied for 26th, analytical chemistry 11th, clinical psychology tied for 31st, computer science tied for 49th, criminology 19th, health care management tied for 33rd, nursing-midwifery tied for 35th, occupational therapy tied for 17th, pharmacy tied for 9th, physical therapy tied for 10th, physician assistant tied for 21st, physics tied for 37th, psychology tied for 39th, public health tied for 37th, speech-language pathology tied for 28th, statistics tied for 40th, and veterinary medicine 9th.[98]

The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities list assessed the University of Florida as 86th among global universities, based on overall research output and faculty awards.[99] In 2017, Washington Monthly ranked the University of Florida 18th among national universities, with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility.[99] The lowest national ranking received by the university from a major publication comes from Forbes which ranked the university 68th in the nation in 2018.[100] This ranking focuses mainly on net positive financial impact, in contrast to other rankings, and generally ranks liberal arts colleges above most research universities.[101]

University of Florida received the following rankings by The Princeton Review in its 2020 Best 380 Colleges Rankings:[102] 13th for Best Value Colleges without Aid, 18th for Lots of Beer, and 42nd for Best Value Colleges. It also was named the number one vegan-friendly school for 2014, according to a survey conducted by PETA.[103]

On Forbes' 2016 list of Best Value Public Colleges, UF was ranked second. It was also ranked third on Forbes' Overall Best Value Colleges Nationwide.[104][105] The University of Florida is ranked among The Best Colleges in America in 2022 and positioned #8 on Money.com’s list.[106]

Colleges and academic divisions Edit

The University of Florida is the flagship university of the state and it has 16 different colleges.[107][108][109] UF has more than 150 research centers, service centers, education centers, bureaus, and institutes offering more than 100 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate degrees.[110][111]

These colleges include:

College/school founding[112]
College/school Year founded
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 1906
Rinker School of Building Construction 1906
College of Education 1906
Levin College of Law 1909
College of Engineering 1910
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 1910
College of Pharmacy 1923
College of Journalism and Communications 1925
College of Design Construction and Planning 1925
Warrington College of Business 1926
P.K. Yonge Research School 1934
College of Health and Human Performance 1946
J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center 1956
College of Medicine 1956
College of Nursing 1956
College of Public Health and Health Professions 1958
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences 1964
College of Dentistry 1972
College of the Arts 1975
College of Veterinary Medicine 1976
Division of Continuing Education 1976
Fisher School of Accounting 1977

Honors program Edit

 
The Honors Residential College at Hume Hall provides residential and classroom facilities for students in the Honors Program.

The University of Florida has an honors program;[113] after they are accepted to the university, students must apply separately to the Honors Program and show significant academic achievement to be accepted. There are over 100 courses offered exclusively to students in this program.[114] In 2011, more than 1900 students applied for 700 available seats. The Honors Program also offers housing for freshman in the Honors Residential College at Hume Hall. The program also offers special scholarships, internships, research, and study abroad opportunities.[115][116]

Sustainability Edit

 
Opened in 2003, Rinker Hall was the first building on campus to receive LEED recognition. Since opening, other new and renovated buildings on campus have also received certification.

In 2005, the University of Florida became a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for environmental and wildlife management, resource conservation, environmental education, waste management, and outreach.[117]

Through long-term environmental initiatives, the University of Florida created an Office of Sustainability in 2006.[118] Their mission is to improve environmental sustainability in many areas on campus. They have stated their goals are to produce zero waste by 2015 and to achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2025.[118] Recently the university appointed a new sustainability director. Florida received a "B+" grade on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card for its environmental and sustainability initiatives.[119] In 2009, "B+" was the second highest grade awarded by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

Satellite facilities Edit

The university maintains a number of facilities apart from its main campus. The J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center also has a teaching hospital at UF Health at Jacksonville, which serves as the Jacksonville campus for the university's College of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy.[120] A number of residencies are also offered at this facility.[120] The university's College of Pharmacy also maintains campuses in Orlando and Jacksonville.[121] The College of Dentistry maintains clinics in Hialeah, Naples, and St. Petersburg.[122]

The university's Warrington College of Business established programs in South Florida in 2004, and recently built a 6,100-square-foot (570 m2) facility in Sunrise, Florida.[123] The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences has extensions in each of the 67 counties in Florida, and 13 research and education centers with 19 locations throughout the state.[124] In 2005, the university established the Beijing Center for International Studies in Beijing that offers research facilities, offices, and degree opportunities.[125]

Research Edit

 
The University of Florida Cancer and Genetics Research Complex is one of several research facilities at the university
 
The Emerging Pathogens Institute

The university spent over $1 billion on research and development in 2022, ranking it one of the highest in the nation.[50] In 2022, UF's research portfolio exceeded $1.08 billion, a value exceeded by only 15 public universities in the United States.[126]

According to a 2019 study by the university's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, the university contributed $16.9 billion to Florida's economy and was responsible for over 130,000 jobs in the 2017–18 fiscal year.[127] Royalty and licensing income includes the glaucoma drug Trusopt, the sports drink Gatorade, and the Sentricon termite elimination system.

UF Annual Research Expenditures per fiscal year 2015–2022
2022 US$1.08 billion[126]
2021 US$960 million[128]
2020 US$942 million[129]
2019 US$776 million[130]
2018 US$837 million[131]
2017 US$801 million[132]
2016 US$791 million[133]
2015 US$740 million[133]

Research includes diverse areas such as health-care and citrus production (the world's largest citrus research center). In 2002, Florida began leading six other universities under a $15 million NASA grant to work on space-related research during a five-year period.[134] The university's partnership with Spain helped to create the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope in the Canary Islands (the cost was $93 million).[135] Plans are also under way for the University of Florida to construct a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) research facility in collaboration with the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that will be in the center of University of Central Florida's Health Sciences Campus in Orlando, Florida.[136] Research will include diabetes, aging, genetics and cancer.

The University of Florida also houses one of the world's leading lightning research teams.[135] The university is also host to a nuclear research reactor known for its Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory.[137] In addition, the University of Florida was the first American university to receive a European Union grant to house a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.[138]

The University of Florida manages or has a stake in numerous notable research centers, facilities, institutes, and projects

Research Facilities Edit

As of 2012, the University of Florida had more than $750 million in new research facilities recently completed or under construction, including the Nanoscale Research Facility, the Pathogens Research Facility[139] and the Biomedical Sciences Building.[140][141] Additionally, Innovation Square, a 24/7 live/work/play research environment being developed along Southwest Second Avenue between the University of Florida campus and downtown Gainesville, recently broke ground and plans to open next fall. 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.[142]

UF Health Edit

 
Entrance to the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida
 
Academic Research Building at UF Health Shands Hospital
 
Shands Cancer Center at the University of Florida
See also: University of Florida Health

University of Florida Health has two campuses: 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. The system also encompasses six UF research institutes: the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, the Genetics Institute, the UF Health Cancer Center, the Institute on Aging and the Emerging Pathogens Institute. 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 Shands Hospital in Gainesville includes UF Health Shands Children's Hospital and UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital. The specialty hospitals, UF Health Shands Rehab Hospital and UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital, are also in Gainesville. UF Health Jacksonville is the system's northeast Florida center.

UF Health has a network of outpatient rehabilitation centers, UF Health Rehab Centers, and two home-health agencies, UF Health Shands HomeCare; as well as more than 80 UF physician outpatient practices in north central and northeast Florida. UF Health is affiliated with the Veterans Affairs hospitals in Gainesville and North Florida/South Georgia.

In all, 6,159 students are enrolled in all six of the colleges.[143] The Evelyn F. and William L. 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 300 faculty members from 10 colleges, and 51 departments campus-wide.[135]

The University of Florida is a winner of the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award and member of the NIH national consortium of medical research institutions. In December 2018 Expertscape recognized it as #4 in the world for expertise in Diabetes Mellitus Type 1.[144]

UF Health Jacksonville Edit

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.

UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health Edit

In 2010, 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.

UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health[145] launched in January 2014. 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.

Participation in the Large Hadron Collider Edit

A team of UF physicists has a leading role in one of the two major experiments planned for the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile (27 km)-long, $5 billion, super-cooled tunnel outside Geneva, Switzerland.[146] More than 30 university physicists, postdoctoral associates, graduate students and now undergraduates are involved in the collider's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of its two major experiments. About 10 are stationed in Geneva. The group is the largest from any university in the U.S. to participate in the CMS experiment. The UF team designed and oversaw development of a major detector within the CMS. 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 100 of the 400 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.S. Department of Energy.[147]

Partnership with Zhejiang University Edit

In July 2008, the University of Florida teamed up with the Zhejiang University to research sustainable solutions to the Earth's energy issues. Overall a Joint Research Center of Clean Sustainable Energy among the Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy, at UF, and the State Key Lab of Clean Energy Utilization and the Institute for Thermal Power Engineering, at Zhejiang University will collaborate to work on this pressing issue.[148][149]

The International Center for Lightning Research and Testing Edit

Florida has more lightning than any other U.S. state.[150] UF sponsors the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing (ICLRT), which occupies over 100 acres (40 ha) at the Camp Blanding Army National Guard Base,[151] about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of UF's campus in Gainesville, Florida. 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.[152][153] 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.[154]

SECU: SEC Academic Initiative Edit

The University of Florida is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium. 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. Along with the University of Georgia, University of Florida, Vanderbilt University and other SEC institutions, SECU formed its mission to bolster collaborative academic endeavors of Southeastern Conference universities. Its goals include highlighting the endeavors and achievements of SEC faculty, students and its universities and advancing the academic reputation of SEC universities.[155][156]

In 2013, the University of Florida was part in the SEC Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia which was organized and led by the University of Georgia and the UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute. The topic of the Symposium was, the "Impact of the Southeast in the World's Renewable Energy Future."[157]

Libraries Edit

 
Library East, built in 1926
 
Library West, built in 1967
Main article: George A. Smathers Libraries
See also: Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center
George A. Smathers Libraries Edit

The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida is one of the largest university library systems in the United States.[158] The George A. Smathers Libraries has a collection of over 6 million+ print volumes, 1.5 million digital books, 1,000+ databases, approximately 150 thousand print/digital journals, and over 14 million digital pages[159] Collections cover virtually all disciplines and include a wide array of formats—from books and journals to manuscripts, maps, and recorded music. An increasing number of the collections are digital and are accessible on the Internet from the library web page or the library catalog.[160] The George A. Smathers Libraries support all academic programs except those served by the Levin College of Law.

Renovations Edit

In 2006, Library West went through a $30 million renovation that doubled capacity.[161] This facility is now better equipped to handle the information technology students need to complete their studies. Such progress is represented by its state-of-the-art Information Commons,[162] which offers production studios, digital media computing areas, and a presentation area.[163]

Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center Edit

The Levin College of Law's students, faculty, and guests are served by Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center.

Campus Edit

For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of Florida buildings.

The University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000 acres (8.1 km2). The campus is home to many notable structures, such as Century Tower, a 157-foot-tall (48 m) carillon tower in the center of the historic district. Other notable facilities include the Health Science Center, Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Smathers Library, Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Harn Museum, University Auditorium, O'Connell Center, and The Hub.[164]

The Reitz Union Edit

Main article: J. Wayne Reitz Union
 
The North Facade of the J. Wayne Reitz Union

The Reitz is the campus union at the University of Florida. On February 1, 2016, it was reopened after an extensive renovation and expansion. The 138,000 square feet (12,800 m2) of new space includes support space for student organizations, new lounges, study spaces, a game room, an arts and crafts center and dance studios.[165]

Historic sites Edit

 
Sledd Hall
 
Leigh Hall
 
Norman Hall
 
Griffin-Floyd Hall
 
Bryan Hall

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 650 acres (2.6 km2).[166] Two buildings outside the historic district, the old WRUF radio station (now the university police station) and Norman Hall (formerly the P.K. Yonge Laboratory School), are also listed on the historic register.[167] The buildings on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architectural or historic significance are:

Student life Edit

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[168] Total
White 51% 51
 
Hispanic 23% 23
 
Asian 10% 10
 
Other[a] 7% 7
 
Black 6% 6
 
Foreign national 2% 2
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 22% 22
 
Affluent[c] 78% 78
 

Student demographics Edit

In fall 2019, the University of Florida had 56,567 students, 37,874 (67%) being undergraduate students, 12,110 (21%) being graduate students, 3,804 (7%) being professional students, 2,644 (5%) being unclassified, and 133 (0.2%) being correspondence students. Out of all 56,567 students, 3,797 were enrolled through UF Online. The ratio of women to men was 57:43 and 28 percent were graduate or professional students. Professional degree programs include architecture, dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine.[169] According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, UF has "the largest Jewish student body in the US."[170] It is estimated that 18% of UF undergraduate and graduate students identify as Jewish compared to around 2% of the United States population.[171]

A social mobility report conducted by the New York Times in 2014 found that 48% of UF undergraduate students came from families with incomes above the 80th percentile (>$110,000), while 6% came from families in the bottom 20th percentiles (<$20,000).[172] The same report also indicates that 30% of the student body came from families from the top 10% of households, and 3% came from the top 1%.

In 2016, the university had 5,169 international students.[173] According to the Annual Admissions Report conducted by UF in 2019, roughly 17% of the incoming freshman class was entering from outside of Florida.[174] The majority of freshmen starting at the University of Florida come from urban backgrounds with the biggest demographic hailing from South Florida cities; the metropolitan areas of Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville historically form a significant share of the incoming class as well.[174] New York and New Jersey are the biggest feeder states outside of Florida.[174]

The University of Florida is ranked second overall in the United States for the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to African-Americans, and third overall for Hispanics.[175] The university ranks fifth in the number of doctoral degrees awarded to African-Americans, and second overall for Hispanics, and third in number of professional degrees awarded to African-Americans, and second overall for Hispanics.[175] The university offers multiple graduate programs—including engineering, business, law and medicine—on one contiguous campus, and coordinates 123 master's degree programs and 76 doctoral degree programs in 87 schools and departments.[176][177]

PaCE Edit

UF launched a new program in the fall of 2015 called PaCE, or Pathway to Campus Enrollment. 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. To be accepted into the PaCE program, you would have been accepted to UF initially. 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. The University of Florida admitted 2,420 students for PaCE for the class of 2021.[178]

Innovation Academy Edit

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. IA offers 25+ different majors that all share a common minor of Innovation.[179]

Fraternities and sororities Edit

Approximately 5,200 undergraduate students (or approximately 15%) are members of either a sorority or fraternity.[180] Some of the fraternity chapters on campus are older than the university itself, with the first chapters being chartered in 1884 and founded on the campus of one of the university's predecessor institutions in Lake City.[181]

Dance Marathon at UF Edit

 
Dance Marathon 2014

Dance Marathon at UF is an annual 26.2-hour event benefiting the patients of University of Florida Health Shands Children's Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.[182] Each year, more than 800 students stay awake and on their feet to raise money and awareness for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. In the 23 years of Dance Marathon at UF's existence, more than $15 million has been donated, making it the most successful student-run philanthropy in the southeastern United States. In 2017, DM at UF raised a record total of $2,724,324 for UF Health Shands Children's Hospital, becoming the second most successful Dance Marathon in the nation.[183]

Reserve Officer Training Corps Edit

Main article: University of Florida ROTC

The University of Florida Reserve Officer Training Corps is the official officer training and commissioning program at the University of Florida. Officially founded in 1905, it is one of the oldest such programs in the nation.

The Reserve Officer Training Corps offers commissions for the United States Army, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and the United States Air Force. The unit is one of the oldest in the nation, and is at Van Fleet Hall.[184][185][186]

Housing Edit

 
Buckman Hall is one of the two original dormitories present since UF's first semester at its Gainesville campus began in 1906
 
Sledd Hall, built in 1929, is an example of a UF dormitory designed in the Collegiate Gothic style
 
The Beaty Towers at UF house the IA Living Learning Community
Main article: University of Florida student housing

The University of Florida provides over 9,200 students with housing in residence halls and complexes on the eastern and western sides of campus.[187]

Recreation and Fitness on Campus Edit

 
Southwest Recreation Center

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 700 students who are employed by the department's programs.

RecSports manages the University of Florida Southwest Recreation Center, a 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m2) state-of-the-art facility with six indoor basketball courts, a split-level cardio room, personal training studio, massage therapy rooms, 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) strength and conditioning area and a social lounge with a smoothie bar. Other campus facilities operated by RecSports include the Student Recreation & Fitness Center.

Outside of RecSports, campus recreation options include an arts and crafts center, bowling alley and game room—all in the J. Wayne Reitz Union, and the Mark Bostick Golf Course. The campus also contains nature trails, open spaces, small ponds, picnic areas, shady nooks and an 81-acre (330,000 m2) wildlife sanctuary.[188] The UF Scientific Diver Development Program provides SCUBA training for students interested in pursuing a career involving underwater research.

Student government Edit

The University of Florida Student Government is the governing body of students who attend the University of Florida, representing the university's nearly 60,000[189] undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university's student government operates on a yearly $22.1 million budget (2020-2021 fiscal year),[190] one of the largest student government budgets in the United States, and the money is allocated by the Budget and Appropriations Committee of the Student Senate.[191] The student government was established in 1909 and consists of executive, judicial and unicameral legislative branches.

Alma mater Edit

Milton Yeats composed University of Florida's alma mater in 1925.[192]

Campus and area transportation Edit

The university campus is served by nine bus routes of the Gainesville Regional Transit System (RTS). Students, faculty, and staff with university-issued ID cards are able to use the system for no additional fee. RTS also provides other campus services, including Gator Aider (during football games), S.N.A.P, and Later Gator nighttime service.[193]

The Gainesville region and the university are served by the Gainesville Regional Airport, which is in northeast Gainesville and has daily flights to Dallas, Atlanta and Charlotte.[194]

Student media Edit

 
Weimer Hall home to many of the studios of the campus stations

The University of Florida community includes six major student-run media outlets and companion Web sites.

  • The Independent Florida Alligator is the largest student-run newspaper in the United States, and operates without oversight from the university administration.
  • The Really Independent Florida Crocodile, a parody of the Alligator, is a monthly magazine started by students.[195]
  • Tea Literary & Arts Magazine is UF's student-run undergraduate literary and arts publication, established in 1995.[196]
  • WRUF (850 AM and 95.3 FM) (www.wruf.com) includes ESPN programming, local sports news and talk programming produced by the station's professional staff and the latest local sports news produced by the college's Innovation News Center.
  • WRUF-FM (103.7 FM) broadcasts country music and attracts an audience from the Gainesville and Ocala areas.
  • WRUF-LD is a low-power television station that carries weather, news, and sports programming.
  • WUFT (www.wuft.org) is a PBS member station with a variety of programming that includes a daily student-produced newscast.
  • WUFT-FM (89.1 FM) is an NPR member radio station which airs news and public affairs programming, including student-produced long-form news reporting. WUFT-FM's programming also airs on WJUF-FM (90.1). In addition, WUFT offers 24-hour classical/arts programming on 92.1.

Various other journals and magazines are published by the university's academic units and student groups, including the Bob Graham Center-affiliated Florida Political Review and the literary journal Subtropics.[197] On the other hand, the social media app TikTok was banned from use across all Florida state universities.[198]

Career placement Edit

The University of Florida Career Resource Center is in the Reitz Student Union. Its mission is to assist students and alumni who are seeking career development, career experiences, and employment opportunities.[199] These services involve on and off-campus job interviews, career planning, assistance in applying to graduate and professional schools, and internship and co-op placements.[200] The Career Resource Center offers workshops, information sessions, career fairs, and advisement on future career options. 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.[201]

The Princeton Review ranked the Career Resource Center as the best among 368 ranked universities in career and job placement services in 2010,[202] and fourth overall in 2011.[202]

Museums Edit

 
Museum of Natural History
 
Harn Museum of Art

The Florida Museum of Natural History, established in 1891, is one of the country's oldest natural history museums and was officially chartered by the state of Florida.[203] This facility is dedicated to understanding, preserving and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage. In over 100 years of operations, the Florida Museum of Natural History has been housed in several buildings, from the Seagle Building to facilities at Dickinson Hall, Powell Hall, and the Randell Research Center.

In 2000 the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity was opened after a generous donation from University of Florida benefactors.[204] The McGuire Center houses a collection of more than six million butterfly and moth specimens, making it one of the largest collections of Lepidoptera in the world, rivaling the Natural History Museum in London, England.[205]

The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, established in 1990, is also at the University of Florida on the southwest part of campus.[206] This facility is one of the largest university art museums in the South, the Harn has more than 7,000 works in its permanent collection and an array of temporary exhibitions. The museum's permanent collections focus on Asian, African, modern and contemporary art, as well as photography.[207] The university sponsors educational programs at the museum including films, lectures, interactive activities, and school and family offerings. In October 2005 the Harn expanded by more than 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2) with the opening of the Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion, which includes new educational and meeting areas and the Camellia Court Cafe, the first eatery for visitors of the Cultural Plaza.[208]

Performing arts and music Edit

 
Phillips Center

Performing arts venues at the University of Florida include the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the University Auditorium, Constans Theatre, the Baughman Center, and performances at the O'Connell Center.[209] The mission is to provide an unparalleled experience where performing artists create and share knowledge to serve the student body, faculty, and staff at the university; Gainesville residents; and visitors to North Central Florida.[210]

The University Auditorium was founded in the mid-1920s and is home to the Anderson Memorial Organ. The auditorium has a concert stage and can seat up to 843 patrons. The venue is suitable for musical concerts, special lectures, convocations, dance concerts, and pageants.[211]

 
University Auditorium

The Phillips Center for the Performing Arts was founded in 1992 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.[212] The Phillips Center consists of a 1,700-seat proscenium hall and the 200-seat Squitieri Studio Theatre.[213]

Constans Theatre was founded in 1967 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.[214]

The Baughman Center was founded in 2000 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 main building is a 1,500-square-foot (140 m2) pavilion, the other is a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) administrative building. The Baughman Center can accommodate up to 96 patrons.[215]

In popular culture Edit

The University of Florida has been portrayed in several books,[216][217] movies[218] 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 1965–66.[219]

Athletics Edit

Main article: Florida Gators
For individual articles on the Florida Gators team in each sport, see the table at right.

The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, known as the "Florida Gators," compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC).[220] The Gators compete in nine men's sports and twelve women's sports.

For the 2014–15 school year, the University Athletic Association budgeted more $100 million for its sports teams and facilities. Since 1987–88, the Gators have won twenty-three of the last twenty-six SEC All-Sports Trophies, recognizing Florida as the best overall athletics program in the SEC.[221] Florida is the only program in the nation to finish among the nation's top ten in each of the last thirty national all-sports standings and is the only SEC school to place 100 or more student-athletes on the Academic Honor Roll each of the last fifteen years.[222]

The Florida Gators have won thirty-five national team championships,[223] thirty of which are NCAA championships. Florida Gators athletes have also won 267 NCAA championships in individual sports events.[224] Florida is one of only two Division I FBS universities to win multiple national championships in each of the two most popular NCAA sports: football (1996, 2006, 2008) and men's basketball (2006, 2007).

Football Edit

Main article: Florida Gators football
 
Aerial of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, also known as "The Swamp."

The University of Florida fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of 1906, when the university held its first classes on its new Gainesville campus. Since then, the Florida Gators football team has played in 40 bowl games, won three consensus national championships and eight Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships, produced 89 first-team All-Americans, 45 National Football League (NFL) first-round draft choices, and three Heisman Trophy winners.

The Gators won their first post-season game on January 1, 1953, beating Tulsa 14–13 in Jacksonville, Florida. The Gators' first major bowl win was the 1967 Orange Bowl in which coach Ray Graves and Heisman Trophy quarterback Steve Spurrier led the Gators to a 27–12 victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

In the 1980s, Gators football coach Charlie Pell became the target of disdain by University of Miami football coach Howard Schnellenberger and Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, who equally despised Pell because of his notoriously bad attitude. Their mutual hatred of Pell made the Hurricanes-Seminoles rivalry earn the nickname of "The Friendly Rivalry."

In 1990, Spurrier returned to his alma mater as its new head coach, and spurred the Gators to their first six official SEC football championships. The Gators, quarterbacked by their second Heisman Trophy winner, Danny Wuerffel, won their first national championship in 1996 with a 52–20 victory over Florida State Seminoles in the Sugar Bowl. In 2006, Urban Meyer coached the Gators to a 13–1 record, capturing their seventh SEC Championship, and defeating the top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes 41–14 for the BCS National Championship. In 2008, the Gators' third Heisman-winning quarterback, Tim Tebow, led them in a 24–14 BCS Championship Game victory over the Oklahoma Sooners for the team's third national championship.

Since 1930, the Gators' home field has been Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, which seats 88,548 fans. The stadium is popularly known as "The Swamp".

Basketball Edit

Main article: Florida Gators men's basketball
 
Interior view of the O'Connell Center, configured for basketball

Center Neal Walk is the only Gator to have had his number retired by the basketball team. The Florida Gators men's basketball team has also gained national recognition over the past 20 years.[225] The Gators went to the Final Four of the 1994 NCAA tournament under coach Lon Kruger,[226] and coach Billy Donovan led the Gators back to the NCAA Final Four in 2000, losing to the Michigan State Spartans in the final. Under Donovan, the Gators won their first Southeastern Conference (SEC) tournament championship in 2005, beating the Kentucky Wildcats. After repeating as SEC tournament champions in 2006, the Gators won their first basketball national championship, defeating the UCLA Bruins 73–57 in the final game of the NCAA basketball tournament.[227]

The Gators beat the Arkansas Razorbacks 77–56 to win their third consecutive SEC tournament title in 2007.[228] Florida defeated Ohio State 84–75 to again win the NCAA basketball tournament championship.

The Gators play their home games in the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center.[229] The 10,133-seat multi-purpose indoor arena was completed in 1980 and underwent massive renovations during the 2016–17 season. The arena is popularly known as the "O'Dome."

Olympics Edit

For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of Florida Olympians.

Since 1968, 163 Gator athletes and 13 Florida coaches have represented 37 countries in the Olympic Games, winning 50 Olympic gold medals, 28 silver medals and 30 bronze medals through the 2012 Summer Olympics.[230] The list of University of Florida alumni who are Olympic gold medalists includes Brad Wilkerson (baseball); Delisha Milton-Jones (basketball); Steve Mesler (bobsled); Heather Mitts and Abby Wambach (soccer); Theresa Andrews, Catie Ball, Tracy Caulkins, Matt Cetlinski, Conor Dwyer, Geoff Gaberino, Nicole Haislett, Mike Heath, David Larson, Ryan Lochte, Anthony Nesty, Dara Torres, Mary Wayte and Martin Zubero (swimming); and Kerron Clement, Dennis Mitchell, Frank Shorter, Christian Taylor and Bernard Williams (track and field).

Notable people Edit

Main category: University of Florida people

Notable alumni Edit

For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of Florida alumni.

As of August 2018 the University of Florida has 545,165 alumni.[231] Over 57,000 are dues-paying members of the University of Florida Alumni Association. Florida alumni live in every state and more than 100 foreign countries.[232] Florida alumni include two Nobel Prize winners, nine NASA astronauts, ten U.S. Senators, forty-two U.S. Representatives, eight U.S. ambassadors, eleven state governors, eleven state Supreme Court justices, and over fifty federal court judges. Florida graduates have served as the executive leaders of such diverse institutions as the U.S. Marine Corps and the National Organization for Women.

Notable faculty Edit

For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of Florida faculty and administrators.

Awards won by University of Florida faculty members include a Fields Medal and an Abel Prize in Mathematics, Albert Einstein Medal, Dirac Medal, Sakurai Prize, Frank Isakson Prize, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials and a few Special Breakthrough Prizes for collaborators who made important contributions for the success LIGO's discovery of gravitational wave in Physics, numerous Pulitzer Prizes, and NASA's top award for research, and the Smithsonian Institution's conservation award.[233] There are more than sixty eminent scholar endowed faculty chairs, and more than fifty faculty elections to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, or Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine or a counterpart in a foreign nation. More than two dozen faculty are members of the National Academies of Science and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine or counterpart in a foreign nation.[135]

See also Edit

Explanatory notes Edit

  1. ^ The motto of UF was written by James Nesbitt Anderson, first Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.[2]
  2. ^ This is the year classes began at the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the four institutions that were consolidated to create the modern University of Florida in 1905.[3] This date was set by the Florida Board of Control in 1935; previously the university traced its founding date to 1905, when the predecessor institutions were merged by the Buckman Act.[4]
  3. ^ The present university campus is about a mile to the west of the former location of the East Florida Seminary, which was a much smaller institution. Epworth Hall, the primary building of the seminary, still stands in downtown Gainesville.
  4. ^ The name "University of Florida" has been given to three separate schools by the Florida legislature. The West Florida Seminary in Tallahassee officially held the name from 1883 until 1902 and Florida Agricultural College in Lake City used the name from 1903 until 1905, when the new University of the State of Florida was created in Gainesville. The school's name was simplified to "University of Florida" in 1909.
  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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UF redirects here For other uses see UF disambiguation The University of Florida Florida or UF is a public land grant research university in Gainesville Florida It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida The university traces its origins to 1853 12 and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906 13 University of FloridaFormer namesEast Florida Seminary 1853 1861 1866 1905 Florida Agricultural College 1884 1903 University of Florida at Lake City 1903 1905 St Petersburg Normal and Industrial School 1893 1905 South Florida Military and Educational College 1894 1905 University of the State of Florida 1905 1909 1 MottoCivium in moribus rei publicae salus Latin On seal In God We Trust Motto in English The welfare of the state depends upon the morals of its citizens note 1 TypePublic land grant research universityEstablishedJanuary 6 1853 170 years ago January 6 1853 note 2 Parent institutionState University System of FloridaAccreditationSACSAcademic affiliationsAAUORAUURASea grantSpace grantEndowment 2 379 billion 2021 5 Budget 6 billion 2019 6 PresidentBen SasseProvostJoseph GloverAcademic staff8 231 2018 7 Administrative staff6 556 2018 7 Students55 211 fall 2022 8 Undergraduates34 552 fall 2022 8 Postgraduates20 659 fall 2022 8 LocationGainesville Florida United States29 38 51 N 82 20 42 W 29 6475 N 82 3450 W 29 6475 82 3450CampusMidsize city 2 000 acres 810 ha Other campuses 9 10 ApopkaDavieFort PierceHialeahJacksonvilleJupiterMiamiMiltonOrlandoPlant CitySarasotaSeminoleShalimarSunriseWimaumaVicenzaNewspaperThe Independent Florida AlligatorColorsOrange and blue 11 NicknameGatorsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS SECAmericanMascotAlbert and Alberta GatorWebsitewww wbr ufl wbr eduAfter the Florida state legislature s creation of performance standards in 2013 the Florida Board of Governors designated the University of Florida as a preeminent university 14 15 The University of Florida is one of three members of the Association of American Universities in Florida and is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 16 17 The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools SACS It is the third largest Florida university by student population 18 and is the fifth largest single campus university in the United States with 57 841 students enrolled for during the 2020 21 school year 19 The University of Florida is home to 16 academic colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes It offers multiple graduate professional programs including business administration engineering law dentistry medicine pharmacy and veterinary medicine on one contiguous campus and administers 123 master s degree programs and 76 doctoral degree programs in 87 schools and departments The university s seal is also the seal of the state of Florida which is on the state flag though in blue rather than multiple colors The University of Florida s intercollegiate sports teams the Florida Gators compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I and the Southeastern Conference SEC As of 2021 University of Florida students and alumni have won 143 Olympic medals including 69 gold medals 20 Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins 1 2 University of the State of Florida 1 3 Growth mascots and establishment of colleges 1 4 Post World War II 1 4 1 Integration 1 5 National and international prominence 1 6 Academic freedom controversy 2 Academics 2 1 Undergraduate admissions 2 2 Tuition and scholarships 2 3 Rankings 2 4 Colleges and academic divisions 2 5 Honors program 2 6 Sustainability 2 7 Satellite facilities 2 8 Research 2 8 1 Research Facilities 2 8 2 UF Health 2 8 2 1 UF Health Jacksonville 2 8 2 2 UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health 2 8 3 Participation in the Large Hadron Collider 2 8 4 Partnership with Zhejiang University 2 8 5 The International Center for Lightning Research and Testing 2 8 6 SECU SEC Academic Initiative 2 8 7 Libraries 2 8 7 1 George A Smathers Libraries 2 8 7 1 1 Renovations 2 8 7 2 Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center 3 Campus 3 1 The Reitz Union 3 2 Historic sites 4 Student life 4 1 Student demographics 4 2 PaCE 4 3 Innovation Academy 4 4 Fraternities and sororities 4 5 Dance Marathon at UF 4 6 Reserve Officer Training Corps 4 7 Housing 4 8 Recreation and Fitness on Campus 4 9 Student government 4 10 Alma mater 4 11 Campus and area transportation 4 12 Student media 5 Career placement 6 Museums 7 Performing arts and music 8 In popular culture 9 Athletics 9 1 Football 9 2 Basketball 9 3 Olympics 10 Notable people 10 1 Notable alumni 10 2 Notable faculty 11 See also 12 Explanatory notes 13 References 14 External linksHistory EditMain article History of the University of Florida nbsp The East Florida Seminary re established in Gainesville in 1866 was the direct predecessor to the University of Florida Origins Edit The modern University of Florida traces its origins to 1853 when the East Florida Seminary the oldest of its four predecessor institutions was founded in Ocala Florida 21 The East Florida Seminary was Florida s first state supported institution of higher learning and operated until 1861 with the outbreak of the American Civil War 22 In 1866 the East Florida Seminary reopened in Gainesville at the former grounds of the Gainesville Academy a small private college that had also closed during the war note 3 The second major precursor to the University of Florida was Florida Agricultural College FAC which was the state s first land grant college under the Morrill Act when it was established in Lake City in 1884 The Florida Legislature looking to expand FAC s curriculum beyond its agricultural and engineering offerings changed the school s name to the University of Florida for the 1903 1904 academic year It would use that name for the remaining two years of its existence 23 note 4 University of the State of Florida Edit In 1905 the Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act which completely reorganized the state s publicly supported institutions of higher education Under the act Florida s six existing state supported institutions were abolished and reorganized to form the State University System of Florida under the newly established Florida Board of Control Four institutions were combined to create a new University of the State of Florida for white men the University of Florida at Lake City formerly Florida Agricultural College the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville the St Petersburg Normal and Industrial School in St Petersburg and the South Florida Military College in Bartow 24 The Buckman Act also created two other institutions segregated by race and gender Florida Female College later the Florida State College for Women and then Florida State University for white women and the State Normal School for Colored Students later Florida A amp M for African American men and women both in Tallahassee 25 The Buckman Act did not specify where the new University of the State of Florida would be located The City of Gainesville led by its mayor William Reuben Thomas campaigned to be the site of the new university with its primary competitor being Lake City 26 After a brief but intense period of lobbying the Board of Control selected Gainesville on July 6 1905 and funds were allocated for the construction of a new campus on the western edge of the town However because the campus would take several months to build the new school was housed on the campus of the now defunct Florida Agricultural College in Lake City during the 1905 1906 academic year Former FAC president Andrew Sledd was chosen to be the first president of the University of the State of Florida The University of the State of Florida s first semester in Gainesville began on September 26 1906 with an enrollment of 102 students Two buildings had been completed at the time Buckman Hall named after the primary author of the law that created the university and Thomas Hall named after the mayor of Gainesville who had led the successful effort to bring the school to town 27 Both structures were designed by William A Edwards who designed many of the university s original buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style in his role as lead architect for Florida s Board of Control 28 Growth mascots and establishment of colleges Edit nbsp An early Florida Gators football practice in 1912 nbsp The University of Florida campus in 1916 looking southwest nbsp Statue of Albert Murphree the second president of the universityDuring his term first university president Andrew Sledd often clashed with key members of the Board of Control over his insistence on rigorous admittance requirements which his detractors claimed was unreasonably impeding school enrollment Sledd resigned over these issues in 1909 Florida State College for Women president Albert Murphree was named UF s second president before the 1909 1910 academic year which was also when the school s name was simplified from the University of the State of Florida to the University of Florida Murphree oversaw a reorganization of the university that included the establishment of several colleges beginning with colleges of law engineering and liberal arts and sciences by 1910 Murphree was also instrumental in the founding of the Florida Blue Key leadership society and in building total enrollment from under 200 to over 2000 He is the only University of Florida president honored with a statue on campus The alligator became the school s informal mascot when a local vendor designed and sold school pennants imprinted with the animal which is very common in lakes in and around Gainesville and throughout the state The gator was a popular choice and the university s sports teams had officially adopted the nickname by 1911 The school colors of orange and blue were also officially established in 1911 though the reasons for the choice are unclear The most likely rationale was that they are a combination of the colors of the university s two largest predecessor institutions as the East Florida Seminary used orange and black while Florida Agricultural College used blue and white 29 The older schools colors may have been an homage to early Scottish and Ulster Scots Presbyterian settlers of north central Florida whose ancestors were originally from Northern Ireland and the Scottish Lowlands 30 31 32 In 1924 the Florida Legislature mandated women of a mature age at least twenty one years old who had completed sixty semester hours from a reputable educational institution be allowed to enroll during regular semesters at the University of Florida in programs that were unavailable at Florida State College for Women Before this only the summer semester was coeducational to accommodate women teachers who wanted to further their education during the summer break 33 Lassie Goodbread Black from Lake City became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida in the College of Agriculture in 1925 34 Murphree died in 1928 and John J Tigert was named UF s third president Disgusted by the under the table payments being made by universities to athletes Tigert established the grant in aid athletic scholarship program in the early 1930s which was the genesis of the modern athletic scholarship plan used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association 35 Inventor and educator Blake R Van Leer was hired as Dean to launch new engineering departments and scholarships Van Leer also managed all applications for federal funding chaired the Advanced Planning Committee per Tigert s request These efforts included consulting for the Florida Emergency Relief Administration throughout the 1930s 36 37 Post World War II Edit nbsp Smathers Library University of Florida campus circa 1945 nbsp Floyd Hall and Leigh Hall University of Florida campus in 1957 nbsp Century Tower begun in 1953 commemorates the 100th anniversary of origins of UF and memorializes students and alumni who died in the World WarsBeginning in 1946 there was dramatically increased interest among male applicants who wanted to attend the University of Florida mostly returning World War II veterans who could attend college under the GI Bill of Rights Servicemen s Readjustment Act Unable to immediately accommodate this increased demand the Florida Board of Control opened the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida on the campus of Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee 38 By the end of the 1946 47 school year 954 men were enrolled at the Tallahassee Branch The following semester the Florida Legislature returned the Florida State College for Women to coeducational status and renamed it Florida State University These events also opened up all of the colleges that comprise the University of Florida to female students Florida Women s Hall of Fame member Maryly Van Leer became the first woman to receive from the University of Florida a master s degree in engineering 39 40 African American students were allowed to enroll starting in 1958 41 Shands Hospital opened in 1958 along with the University of Florida College of Medicine to join the established College of Pharmacy Rapid campus expansion began in the 1950s and continues today 42 The University of Florida is one of three Florida public universities along with Florida State University and the University of South Florida to be designated as a preeminent university by Florida senate bill 1076 enacted by the Florida legislature and signed into law by the governor in 2013 43 44 As a result the preeminent universities receive additional funding to improve the academics and national reputation of higher education within the state of Florida 45 Integration Edit From its inception until 1958 only white students were allowed to attend 46 In 1958 George H Starke became the first Black student 47 National and international prominence Edit In 1985 the University of Florida received an invitation to become a member of the Association of American Universities During President Bernie Machen s tenure and with the backing of the University of Florida Board of Trustees a significant policy shift was announced in 2009 for the university This shift involved reducing the number of undergraduate students and reallocating financial and academic resources towards graduate education and research initiatives 48 In 2017 the University of Florida achieved a notable milestone by becoming the first university in the state of Florida to rank among the top ten best public universities according to U S News 49 In the 2022 fiscal year the University of Florida received more than 1 billion in sponsored research expenditures 50 In 2017 University President Kent Fuchs unveiled a plan to recruit 500 new faculty members with the aim of elevating the university s ranking among the top five best public universities The majority of these new hires are concentrated in STEM fields In 2018 230 faculty members were hired with the remaining 270 faculty positions expected to be filled by the fall of 2019 51 Academic freedom controversy Edit In October 2021 three professors filed a federal lawsuit against UF claiming they were barred from testifying in a voting rights lawsuit against Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee and Governor Ron DeSantis 52 53 The university claimed that testifying against the state would be adverse to the university s interests as a state of Florida institution 54 igniting controversy over alleged inappropriate political influence at the university interference in academic freedom and violation of the professors First Amendment rights Earlier in the year the chairman of UF s Board of Trustees Morteza Hosseini reportedly pushed the university to hire Joseph Ladapo a controversial doctor known for his support of DeSantis s COVID 19 policies and promotion of COVID misinformation 53 Hosseini is a major Republican Party donor and DeSantis adviser 53 The reports prompted investigations by the U S House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties the UF Faculty Senate and UF s accrediting body the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools SACSCOC 55 56 Further reporting in November 2021 revealed that the university had prohibited at least five more professors from offering expertise in legal cases including a professor of pediatric medicine who was not allowed to offer expert testimony in a case related to masking of children during the COVID pandemic a measure supported by medical experts but opposed by Governor DeSantis 57 58 In response to the allegations UF s administration appointed a task force to review the university s conflict of interest policy and examine it for consistency and fidelity and reversed its decision to bar professors from testifying stating that they were permitted to testify pro bono on their own time 59 The recommendations of the task force were accepted by UF President Kent Fuchs in late November 2021 60 However a December 2021 report from the UF Faculty Senate deepened the controversy citing external pressure and a widespread fear of reprisal if faculty promoted unpopular viewpoints and alleging that course titles on racial topics were edited faculty were advised against criticizing Governor DeSantis or his policies and medical researchers were compelled to destroy data related to the COVID pandemic 61 62 Academics EditUndergraduate admissions Edit Fall first time freshman admission statistics 2022 63 2020 64 2019 65 2018 66 2017 67 Applicants 64 473 48 193 38 069 38 905 32 747Admits 15 054 15 002 13 925 15 077 13 758Enrolls 6 612 6 333 6 554 6 801 6 428Admit rate 23 3 31 1 36 6 38 8 42 0 Yield rate 43 9 42 2 47 1 45 1 46 7 SAT composite 1320 1470 81 1310 1450 81 1320 1450 85 1280 1440 82 1240 1400 79 ACT composite 28 33 41 29 33 50 28 33 50 27 32 57 28 32 71 middle 50 range percentage of first time freshmen who chose to submitThe 2022 annual ranking of U S News amp World Report categorizes the University of Florida as most selective 68 For the Class of 2024 enrolled fall 2020 Florida received 48 193 applications and accepted 15 002 31 1 Of those accepted 6 333 enrolled a yield rate the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university of 42 2 Florida s freshman retention rate is 97 with 89 going on to graduate within six years 69 70 The enrolled first year class of 2024 had the following standardized test scores the middle 50 range 25th percentile 75th percentile of SAT scores was 1310 1450 while the middle 50 range of ACT scores was 29 33 69 71 72 The University of Florida has the second most selective application process of any university or college in the state of Florida behind only the University of Miami 73 74 75 76 The University of Florida is a college sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 288 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020 In the 2020 2021 academic year 342 freshman students were National Merit Scholars 77 The university is need blind for domestic applicants 78 In 2007 the University of Florida joined the University of Virginia Harvard University the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Princeton University in announcing the discontinuation of early decision admissions to foster economic diversity in their student bodies 79 These universities assert early decision admissions forces students to accept an offer of admission before evaluating the financial aid offers from multiple universities The university s single application deadline is November 1 80 Enrollment in UF 2017 2021 Academic Year Undergraduates Graduate Total Enrollment2017 2018 67 35 247 17 422 52 6692018 2019 66 35 491 16 727 52 2182019 2020 65 35 405 17 002 52 4072020 2021 64 34 931 18 441 53 3722022 2023 63 34 552 20 659 55 211Tuition and scholarships Edit For the 2018 19 academic year tuition and fees were 6 381 for in state undergraduate students and 28 658 for out of state undergraduate students Tuition for online courses is lower and for graduate courses is higher 81 The Lombardi Scholars Program created in 2002 and named in honor of the university s ninth president John V Lombardi is a merit scholarship for Florida students The scholarship offers 2 700 a semester for eight to ten semesters 82 83 The J Wayne Reitz Scholars Program created in 1997 and named in honor of the university s fifth president J Wayne Reitz is a leadership and merit based scholarship for Florida students Its yearly 2 500 stipend may be renewed for up to three years 84 85 The Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program was created in 2005 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 Every year 300 scholarships are awarded to incoming freshmen with an average family income of 18 408 86 The Alec Courtelis Award is given annually at the International Student Academics Awards Ceremony The award is given to international students in recognition of their academic excellence and outstanding contribution to the university and community Louise Courtelis established the Alec Courtelis Award in honor of husband a successful businessman and former chairman of the Florida Board of Regents in 1996 87 Rankings Edit Academic rankingsNationalForbes 88 25THE WSJ 89 15U S News amp World Report 90 28Washington Monthly 91 22GlobalARWU 92 101 150QS 93 168THE 94 151 U S News amp World Report 95 98USN amp WR Global Rankings 96 Overall Global University Ranking 107Agricultural Sciences 14Arts amp Humanities 150Biology amp Biochemistry 114Chemistry 103Clinical Medicine 100Computer Science 117Economics amp Business 95Electrical amp Electronic Engineering 128Engineering 113Environment Ecology 28Geosciences 154Immunology 129Materials Science 170Mathematics 185Microbiology 62Molecular Biology amp Genetics 135Neuroscience amp Behavior 101Pharmacology amp Toxicology 50Physics 116Plant amp Animal Science 4Psychiatry Psychology 99Social Sciences amp Public Health 102Space Science 102Surgery 68In its 2021 edition U S News amp World Report USN amp WR ranked the University of Florida as tied for the fifth best public university in the United States and tied for 28th overall among all national universities public and private 97 Many of the University of Florida s graduate schools have received top 50 national rankings from U S News amp World Report with the school of education 25th Florida s Hough School of Business 25th Florida s Medical School research tied for 43rd the Engineering School tied for 45th the Levin College of Law tied for 31st and the Nursing School tied for 24th in the 2020 rankings 98 Florida s graduate programs ranked for 2020 by USN amp WR in the nation s top 50 were audiology tied for 26th analytical chemistry 11th clinical psychology tied for 31st computer science tied for 49th criminology 19th health care management tied for 33rd nursing midwifery tied for 35th occupational therapy tied for 17th pharmacy tied for 9th physical therapy tied for 10th physician assistant tied for 21st physics tied for 37th psychology tied for 39th public health tied for 37th speech language pathology tied for 28th statistics tied for 40th and veterinary medicine 9th 98 The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities list assessed the University of Florida as 86th among global universities based on overall research output and faculty awards 99 In 2017 Washington Monthly ranked the University of Florida 18th among national universities with criteria based on research community service and social mobility 99 The lowest national ranking received by the university from a major publication comes from Forbes which ranked the university 68th in the nation in 2018 100 This ranking focuses mainly on net positive financial impact in contrast to other rankings and generally ranks liberal arts colleges above most research universities 101 University of Florida received the following rankings by The Princeton Review in its 2020 Best 380 Colleges Rankings 102 13th for Best Value Colleges without Aid 18th for Lots of Beer and 42nd for Best Value Colleges It also was named the number one vegan friendly school for 2014 according to a survey conducted by PETA 103 On Forbes 2016 list of Best Value Public Colleges UF was ranked second It was also ranked third on Forbes Overall Best Value Colleges Nationwide 104 105 The University of Florida is ranked among The Best Colleges in America in 2022 and positioned 8 on Money com s list 106 Colleges and academic divisions Edit The University of Florida is the flagship university of the state and it has 16 different colleges 107 108 109 UF has more than 150 research centers service centers education centers bureaus and institutes offering more than 100 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate degrees 110 111 These colleges include College school founding 112 College school Year foundedCollege of Agricultural and Life Sciences 1906Rinker School of Building Construction 1906College of Education 1906Levin College of Law 1909College of Engineering 1910College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 1910College of Pharmacy 1923College of Journalism and Communications 1925College of Design Construction and Planning 1925Warrington College of Business 1926P K Yonge Research School 1934College of Health and Human Performance 1946J Hillis Miller Health Science Center 1956College of Medicine 1956College of Nursing 1956College of Public Health and Health Professions 1958Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences 1964College of Dentistry 1972College of the Arts 1975College of Veterinary Medicine 1976Division of Continuing Education 1976Fisher School of Accounting 1977Honors program Edit nbsp The Honors Residential College at Hume Hall provides residential and classroom facilities for students in the Honors Program The University of Florida has an honors program 113 after they are accepted to the university students must apply separately to the Honors Program and show significant academic achievement to be accepted There are over 100 courses offered exclusively to students in this program 114 In 2011 more than 1900 students applied for 700 available seats The Honors Program also offers housing for freshman in the Honors Residential College at Hume Hall The program also offers special scholarships internships research and study abroad opportunities 115 116 Sustainability Edit nbsp Opened in 2003 Rinker Hall was the first building on campus to receive LEED recognition Since opening other new and renovated buildings on campus have also received certification In 2005 the University of Florida became a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for environmental and wildlife management resource conservation environmental education waste management and outreach 117 Through long term environmental initiatives the University of Florida created an Office of Sustainability in 2006 118 Their mission is to improve environmental sustainability in many areas on campus They have stated their goals are to produce zero waste by 2015 and to achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2025 118 Recently the university appointed a new sustainability director Florida received a B grade on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card for its environmental and sustainability initiatives 119 In 2009 B was the second highest grade awarded by the Sustainable Endowments Institute Satellite facilities Edit The university maintains a number of facilities apart from its main campus The J Hillis Miller Health Science Center also has a teaching hospital at UF Health at Jacksonville which serves as the Jacksonville campus for the university s College of Medicine College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy 120 A number of residencies are also offered at this facility 120 The university s College of Pharmacy also maintains campuses in Orlando and Jacksonville 121 The College of Dentistry maintains clinics in Hialeah Naples and St Petersburg 122 The university s Warrington College of Business established programs in South Florida in 2004 and recently built a 6 100 square foot 570 m2 facility in Sunrise Florida 123 The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences has extensions in each of the 67 counties in Florida and 13 research and education centers with 19 locations throughout the state 124 In 2005 the university established the Beijing Center for International Studies in Beijing that offers research facilities offices and degree opportunities 125 Research Edit nbsp The University of Florida Cancer and Genetics Research Complex is one of several research facilities at the university nbsp The Emerging Pathogens InstituteThe university spent over 1 billion on research and development in 2022 ranking it one of the highest in the nation 50 In 2022 UF s research portfolio exceeded 1 08 billion a value exceeded by only 15 public universities in the United States 126 According to a 2019 study by the university s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences the university contributed 16 9 billion to Florida s economy and was responsible for over 130 000 jobs in the 2017 18 fiscal year 127 Royalty and licensing income includes the glaucoma drug Trusopt the sports drink Gatorade and the Sentricon termite elimination system UF Annual Research Expenditures per fiscal year 2015 2022 2022 US 1 08 billion 126 2021 US 960 million 128 2020 US 942 million 129 2019 US 776 million 130 2018 US 837 million 131 2017 US 801 million 132 2016 US 791 million 133 2015 US 740 million 133 Research includes diverse areas such as health care and citrus production the world s largest citrus research center In 2002 Florida began leading six other universities under a 15 million NASA grant to work on space related research during a five year period 134 The university s partnership with Spain helped to create the world s largest single aperture optical telescope in the Canary Islands the cost was 93 million 135 Plans are also under way for the University of Florida to construct a 50 000 square foot 4 600 m2 research facility in collaboration with the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that will be in the center of University of Central Florida s Health Sciences Campus in Orlando Florida 136 Research will include diabetes aging genetics and cancer The University of Florida also houses one of the world s leading lightning research teams 135 The university is also host to a nuclear research reactor known for its Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory 137 In addition the University of Florida was the first American university to receive a European Union grant to house a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 138 The University of Florida manages or has a stake in numerous notable research centers facilities institutes and projects Askew Institute Bridge Software Institute Cancer and Genetics Research Complex Cancer Hospital Center for African Studies Center for Business Ethics Education and Research Center for Latin American Studies Center for Public Service Emerging Pathogens Institute Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center International Center Floral Genome Project Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy Florida Lakewatch Gran Telescopio Canarias Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics Laboratory Lake Nona Medical City McKnight Brain Institute Moffitt Cancer Center amp Research Institute National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Rosemary Hill Observatory UF Innovate Sid Martin Biotech UFHSA UF Training Reactor Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience Research Facilities Edit As of 2012 update the University of Florida had more than 750 million in new research facilities recently completed or under construction including the Nanoscale Research Facility the Pathogens Research Facility 139 and the Biomedical Sciences Building 140 141 Additionally Innovation Square a 24 7 live work play research environment being developed along Southwest Second Avenue between the University of Florida campus and downtown Gainesville recently broke ground and plans to open next fall 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 142 UF Health Edit nbsp Entrance to the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville Florida nbsp Academic Research Building at UF Health Shands Hospital nbsp Shands Cancer Center at the University of FloridaSee also University of Florida Health University of Florida Health has two campuses 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 The system also encompasses six UF research institutes the Clinical and Translational Science Institute the Evelyn F and William L McKnight Brain Institute the Genetics Institute the UF Health Cancer Center the Institute on Aging and the Emerging Pathogens Institute 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 Shands Hospital in Gainesville includes UF Health Shands Children s Hospital and UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital The specialty hospitals UF Health Shands Rehab Hospital and UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital are also in Gainesville UF Health Jacksonville is the system s northeast Florida center UF Health has a network of outpatient rehabilitation centers UF Health Rehab Centers and two home health agencies UF Health Shands HomeCare as well as more than 80 UF physician outpatient practices in north central and northeast Florida UF Health is affiliated with the Veterans Affairs hospitals in Gainesville and North Florida South Georgia In all 6 159 students are enrolled in all six of the colleges 143 The Evelyn F and William L 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 300 faculty members from 10 colleges and 51 departments campus wide 135 The University of Florida is a winner of the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award and member of the NIH national consortium of medical research institutions In December 2018 Expertscape recognized it as 4 in the world for expertise in Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 144 UF Health Jacksonville Edit 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 UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health Edit In 2010 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 UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health 145 launched in January 2014 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 Participation in the Large Hadron Collider Edit A team of UF physicists has a leading role in one of the two major experiments planned for the Large Hadron Collider a 17 mile 27 km long 5 billion super cooled tunnel outside Geneva Switzerland 146 More than 30 university physicists postdoctoral associates graduate students and now undergraduates are involved in the collider s Compact Muon Solenoid CMS experiment one of its two major experiments About 10 are stationed in Geneva The group is the largest from any university in the U S to participate in the CMS experiment The UF team designed and oversaw development of a major detector within the CMS 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 100 of the 400 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 S Department of Energy 147 Partnership with Zhejiang University Edit In July 2008 the University of Florida teamed up with the Zhejiang University to research sustainable solutions to the Earth s energy issues Overall a Joint Research Center of Clean Sustainable Energy among the Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy at UF and the State Key Lab of Clean Energy Utilization and the Institute for Thermal Power Engineering at Zhejiang University will collaborate to work on this pressing issue 148 149 The International Center for Lightning Research and Testing Edit Florida has more lightning than any other U S state 150 UF sponsors the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing ICLRT which occupies over 100 acres 40 ha at the Camp Blanding Army National Guard Base 151 about 25 miles 40 km northeast of UF s campus in Gainesville Florida 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 152 153 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 154 SECU SEC Academic Initiative Edit The University of Florida is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium 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 Along with the University of Georgia University of Florida Vanderbilt University and other SEC institutions SECU formed its mission to bolster collaborative academic endeavors of Southeastern Conference universities Its goals include highlighting the endeavors and achievements of SEC faculty students and its universities and advancing the academic reputation of SEC universities 155 156 In 2013 the University of Florida was part in the SEC Symposium in Atlanta Georgia which was organized and led by the University of Georgia and the UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute The topic of the Symposium was the Impact of the Southeast in the World s Renewable Energy Future 157 Libraries Edit nbsp Library East built in 1926 nbsp Library West built in 1967Main article George A Smathers Libraries See also Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center George A Smathers Libraries Edit The George A Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida is one of the largest university library systems in the United States 158 The George A Smathers Libraries has a collection of over 6 million print volumes 1 5 million digital books 1 000 databases approximately 150 thousand print digital journals and over 14 million digital pages 159 Collections cover virtually all disciplines and include a wide array of formats from books and journals to manuscripts maps and recorded music An increasing number of the collections are digital and are accessible on the Internet from the library web page or the library catalog 160 The George A Smathers Libraries support all academic programs except those served by the Levin College of Law Renovations Edit In 2006 Library West went through a 30 million renovation that doubled capacity 161 This facility is now better equipped to handle the information technology students need to complete their studies Such progress is represented by its state of the art Information Commons 162 which offers production studios digital media computing areas and a presentation area 163 Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center Edit The Levin College of Law s students faculty and guests are served by Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center Campus EditFor a more comprehensive list see List of University of Florida buildings The University of Florida campus encompasses over 2 000 acres 8 1 km2 The campus is home to many notable structures such as Century Tower a 157 foot tall 48 m carillon tower in the center of the historic district Other notable facilities include the Health Science Center Steve Spurrier Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Smathers Library Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Harn Museum University Auditorium O Connell Center and The Hub 164 The Reitz Union Edit Main article J Wayne Reitz Union nbsp The North Facade of the J Wayne Reitz UnionThe Reitz is the campus union at the University of Florida On February 1 2016 it was reopened after an extensive renovation and expansion The 138 000 square feet 12 800 m2 of new space includes support space for student organizations new lounges study spaces a game room an arts and crafts center and dance studios 165 Historic sites Edit nbsp Sledd Hall nbsp Leigh Hall nbsp Norman Hall nbsp Griffin Floyd Hall nbsp Bryan HallA number of the University of Florida s buildings are historically significant The University of Florida Campus Historic District comprises 19 buildings and encompasses approximately 650 acres 2 6 km2 166 Two buildings outside the historic district the old WRUF radio station now the university police station and Norman Hall formerly the P K Yonge Laboratory School are also listed on the historic register 167 The buildings on the U S National Register of Historic Places for their architectural or historic significance are Anderson Hall Bryan Hall Buckman Hall Carlton Auditorium Century Tower Dauer Hall Epworth Hall Fletcher Hall Florida Gymnasium Griffin Floyd Hall Infirmary Keene Flint Hall Leigh Hall Mallory Hall Matherly Hall Murphree Hall Newell Hall Norman Hall Old WRUF Radio Station Peabody Hall Plaza of the Americas Reid Hall Rolfs Hall Sledd Hall Smathers Library Library East The Hub Thomas Hall Tigert Hall University Auditorium Walker Hall Weil Hall Women s Gymnasium Yulee HallStudent life EditStudent body composition as of May 2 2022 Race and ethnicity 168 TotalWhite 51 51 Hispanic 23 23 Asian 10 10 Other a 7 7 Black 6 6 Foreign national 2 2 Economic diversityLow income b 22 22 Affluent c 78 78 Student demographics Edit In fall 2019 the University of Florida had 56 567 students 37 874 67 being undergraduate students 12 110 21 being graduate students 3 804 7 being professional students 2 644 5 being unclassified and 133 0 2 being correspondence students Out of all 56 567 students 3 797 were enrolled through UF Online The ratio of women to men was 57 43 and 28 percent were graduate or professional students Professional degree programs include architecture dentistry law medicine pharmacy and veterinary medicine 169 According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency UF has the largest Jewish student body in the US 170 It is estimated that 18 of UF undergraduate and graduate students identify as Jewish compared to around 2 of the United States population 171 A social mobility report conducted by the New York Times in 2014 found that 48 of UF undergraduate students came from families with incomes above the 80th percentile gt 110 000 while 6 came from families in the bottom 20th percentiles lt 20 000 172 The same report also indicates that 30 of the student body came from families from the top 10 of households and 3 came from the top 1 In 2016 the university had 5 169 international students 173 According to the Annual Admissions Report conducted by UF in 2019 roughly 17 of the incoming freshman class was entering from outside of Florida 174 The majority of freshmen starting at the University of Florida come from urban backgrounds with the biggest demographic hailing from South Florida cities the metropolitan areas of Tampa Orlando and Jacksonville historically form a significant share of the incoming class as well 174 New York and New Jersey are the biggest feeder states outside of Florida 174 The University of Florida is ranked second overall in the United States for the number of bachelor s degrees awarded to African Americans and third overall for Hispanics 175 The university ranks fifth in the number of doctoral degrees awarded to African Americans and second overall for Hispanics and third in number of professional degrees awarded to African Americans and second overall for Hispanics 175 The university offers multiple graduate programs including engineering business law and medicine on one contiguous campus and coordinates 123 master s degree programs and 76 doctoral degree programs in 87 schools and departments 176 177 PaCE Edit UF launched a new program in the fall of 2015 called PaCE or Pathway to Campus Enrollment 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 To be accepted into the PaCE program you would have been accepted to UF initially 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 The University of Florida admitted 2 420 students for PaCE for the class of 2021 178 Innovation Academy Edit 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 IA offers 25 different majors that all share a common minor of Innovation 179 Fraternities and sororities Edit Approximately 5 200 undergraduate students or approximately 15 are members of either a sorority or fraternity 180 Some of the fraternity chapters on campus are older than the university itself with the first chapters being chartered in 1884 and founded on the campus of one of the university s predecessor institutions in Lake City 181 Dance Marathon at UF Edit nbsp Dance Marathon 2014Dance Marathon at UF is an annual 26 2 hour event benefiting the patients of University of Florida Health Shands Children s Hospital in Gainesville Florida 182 Each year more than 800 students stay awake and on their feet to raise money and awareness for Children s Miracle Network Hospitals In the 23 years of Dance Marathon at UF s existence more than 15 million has been donated making it the most successful student run philanthropy in the southeastern United States In 2017 DM at UF raised a record total of 2 724 324 for UF Health Shands Children s Hospital becoming the second most successful Dance Marathon in the nation 183 Reserve Officer Training Corps Edit Main article University of Florida ROTC The University of Florida Reserve Officer Training Corps is the official officer training and commissioning program at the University of Florida Officially founded in 1905 it is one of the oldest such programs in the nation The Reserve Officer Training Corps offers commissions for the United States Army United States Navy United States Marine Corps and the United States Air Force The unit is one of the oldest in the nation and is at Van Fleet Hall 184 185 186 Housing Edit nbsp Buckman Hall is one of the two original dormitories present since UF s first semester at its Gainesville campus began in 1906 nbsp Sledd Hall built in 1929 is an example of a UF dormitory designed in the Collegiate Gothic style nbsp The Beaty Towers at UF house the IA Living Learning CommunityMain article University of Florida student housing The University of Florida provides over 9 200 students with housing in residence halls and complexes on the eastern and western sides of campus 187 Recreation and Fitness on Campus Edit nbsp Southwest Recreation CenterThe 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 700 students who are employed by the department s programs RecSports manages the University of Florida Southwest Recreation Center a 140 000 square foot 13 000 m2 state of the art facility with six indoor basketball courts a split level cardio room personal training studio massage therapy rooms 14 000 square foot 1 300 m2 strength and conditioning area and a social lounge with a smoothie bar Other campus facilities operated by RecSports include the Student Recreation amp Fitness Center Outside of RecSports campus recreation options include an arts and crafts center bowling alley and game room all in the J Wayne Reitz Union and the Mark Bostick Golf Course The campus also contains nature trails open spaces small ponds picnic areas shady nooks and an 81 acre 330 000 m2 wildlife sanctuary 188 The UF Scientific Diver Development Program provides SCUBA training for students interested in pursuing a career involving underwater research Student government Edit The University of Florida Student Government is the governing body of students who attend the University of Florida representing the university s nearly 60 000 189 undergraduate graduate and professional students The university s student government operates on a yearly 22 1 million budget 2020 2021 fiscal year 190 one of the largest student government budgets in the United States and the money is allocated by the Budget and Appropriations Committee of the Student Senate 191 The student government was established in 1909 and consists of executive judicial and unicameral legislative branches Alma mater Edit Milton Yeats composed University of Florida s alma mater in 1925 192 Campus and area transportation Edit The university campus is served by nine bus routes of the Gainesville Regional Transit System RTS Students faculty and staff with university issued ID cards are able to use the system for no additional fee RTS also provides other campus services including Gator Aider during football games S N A P and Later Gator nighttime service 193 The Gainesville region and the university are served by the Gainesville Regional Airport which is in northeast Gainesville and has daily flights to Dallas Atlanta and Charlotte 194 Student media Edit nbsp Weimer Hall home to many of the studios of the campus stationsThe University of Florida community includes six major student run media outlets and companion Web sites The Independent Florida Alligator is the largest student run newspaper in the United States and operates without oversight from the university administration The Really Independent Florida Crocodile a parody of the Alligator is a monthly magazine started by students 195 Tea Literary amp Arts Magazine is UF s student run undergraduate literary and arts publication established in 1995 196 WRUF 850 AM and 95 3 FM www wruf com includes ESPN programming local sports news and talk programming produced by the station s professional staff and the latest local sports news produced by the college s Innovation News Center WRUF FM 103 7 FM broadcasts country music and attracts an audience from the Gainesville and Ocala areas WRUF LD is a low power television station that carries weather news and sports programming WUFT www wuft org is a PBS member station with a variety of programming that includes a daily student produced newscast WUFT FM 89 1 FM is an NPR member radio station which airs news and public affairs programming including student produced long form news reporting WUFT FM s programming also airs on WJUF FM 90 1 In addition WUFT offers 24 hour classical arts programming on 92 1 Various other journals and magazines are published by the university s academic units and student groups including the Bob Graham Center affiliated Florida Political Review and the literary journal Subtropics 197 On the other hand the social media app TikTok was banned from use across all Florida state universities 198 Career placement EditThe University of Florida Career Resource Center is in the Reitz Student Union Its mission is to assist students and alumni who are seeking career development career experiences and employment opportunities 199 These services involve on and off campus job interviews career planning assistance in applying to graduate and professional schools and internship and co op placements 200 The Career Resource Center offers workshops information sessions career fairs and advisement on future career options 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 201 The Princeton Review ranked the Career Resource Center as the best among 368 ranked universities in career and job placement services in 2010 202 and fourth overall in 2011 202 Museums Edit nbsp Museum of Natural History nbsp Harn Museum of ArtThe Florida Museum of Natural History established in 1891 is one of the country s oldest natural history museums and was officially chartered by the state of Florida 203 This facility is dedicated to understanding preserving and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage In over 100 years of operations the Florida Museum of Natural History has been housed in several buildings from the Seagle Building to facilities at Dickinson Hall Powell Hall and the Randell Research Center In 2000 the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity was opened after a generous donation from University of Florida benefactors 204 The McGuire Center houses a collection of more than six million butterfly and moth specimens making it one of the largest collections of Lepidoptera in the world rivaling the Natural History Museum in London England 205 The Samuel P Harn Museum of Art established in 1990 is also at the University of Florida on the southwest part of campus 206 This facility is one of the largest university art museums in the South the Harn has more than 7 000 works in its permanent collection and an array of temporary exhibitions The museum s permanent collections focus on Asian African modern and contemporary art as well as photography 207 The university sponsors educational programs at the museum including films lectures interactive activities and school and family offerings In October 2005 the Harn expanded by more than 18 000 square feet 1 700 m2 with the opening of the Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion which includes new educational and meeting areas and the Camellia Court Cafe the first eatery for visitors of the Cultural Plaza 208 Performing arts and music Edit nbsp Phillips CenterPerforming arts venues at the University of Florida include the Curtis M Phillips Center for the Performing Arts the University Auditorium Constans Theatre the Baughman Center and performances at the O Connell Center 209 The mission is to provide an unparalleled experience where performing artists create and share knowledge to serve the student body faculty and staff at the university Gainesville residents and visitors to North Central Florida 210 The University Auditorium was founded in the mid 1920s and is home to the Anderson Memorial Organ The auditorium has a concert stage and can seat up to 843 patrons The venue is suitable for musical concerts special lectures convocations dance concerts and pageants 211 nbsp University AuditoriumThe Phillips Center for the Performing Arts was founded in 1992 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 212 The Phillips Center consists of a 1 700 seat proscenium hall and the 200 seat Squitieri Studio Theatre 213 Constans Theatre was founded in 1967 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 214 The Baughman Center was founded in 2000 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 main building is a 1 500 square foot 140 m2 pavilion the other is a 1 000 square foot 93 m2 administrative building The Baughman Center can accommodate up to 96 patrons 215 In popular culture EditThe University of Florida has been portrayed in several books 216 217 movies 218 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 1965 66 219 Athletics EditSports at FloridaMen sBaseballBasketballCross countryFootballGolfSwimmingTennisTrack amp field Women sBasketballCross countryGolfGymnasticsLacrosseSoccerSoftballSwimmingTennisTrack amp fieldVolleyballMain article Florida Gators For individual articles on the Florida Gators team in each sport see the table at right The University of Florida s intercollegiate sports teams known as the Florida Gators compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I and the Southeastern Conference SEC 220 The Gators compete in nine men s sports and twelve women s sports For the 2014 15 school year the University Athletic Association budgeted more 100 million for its sports teams and facilities Since 1987 88 the Gators have won twenty three of the last twenty six SEC All Sports Trophies recognizing Florida as the best overall athletics program in the SEC 221 Florida is the only program in the nation to finish among the nation s top ten in each of the last thirty national all sports standings and is the only SEC school to place 100 or more student athletes on the Academic Honor Roll each of the last fifteen years 222 The Florida Gators have won thirty five national team championships 223 thirty of which are NCAA championships Florida Gators athletes have also won 267 NCAA championships in individual sports events 224 Florida is one of only two Division I FBS universities to win multiple national championships in each of the two most popular NCAA sports football 1996 2006 2008 and men s basketball 2006 2007 Football Edit Main article Florida Gators football nbsp Aerial of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium also known as The Swamp The University of Florida fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of 1906 when the university held its first classes on its new Gainesville campus Since then the Florida Gators football team has played in 40 bowl games won three consensus national championships and eight Southeastern Conference SEC championships produced 89 first team All Americans 45 National Football League NFL first round draft choices and three Heisman Trophy winners The Gators won their first post season game on January 1 1953 beating Tulsa 14 13 in Jacksonville Florida The Gators first major bowl win was the 1967 Orange Bowl in which coach Ray Graves and Heisman Trophy quarterback Steve Spurrier led the Gators to a 27 12 victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets In the 1980s Gators football coach Charlie Pell became the target of disdain by University of Miami football coach Howard Schnellenberger and Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden who equally despised Pell because of his notoriously bad attitude Their mutual hatred of Pell made the Hurricanes Seminoles rivalry earn the nickname of The Friendly Rivalry In 1990 Spurrier returned to his alma mater as its new head coach and spurred the Gators to their first six official SEC football championships The Gators quarterbacked by their second Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel won their first national championship in 1996 with a 52 20 victory over Florida State Seminoles in the Sugar Bowl In 2006 Urban Meyer coached the Gators to a 13 1 record capturing their seventh SEC Championship and defeating the top ranked Ohio State Buckeyes 41 14 for the BCS National Championship In 2008 the Gators third Heisman winning quarterback Tim Tebow led them in a 24 14 BCS Championship Game victory over the Oklahoma Sooners for the team s third national championship Since 1930 the Gators home field has been Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium which seats 88 548 fans The stadium is popularly known as The Swamp Basketball Edit Main article Florida Gators men s basketball nbsp Interior view of the O Connell Center configured for basketballCenter Neal Walk is the only Gator to have had his number retired by the basketball team The Florida Gators men s basketball team has also gained national recognition over the past 20 years 225 The Gators went to the Final Four of the 1994 NCAA tournament under coach Lon Kruger 226 and coach Billy Donovan led the Gators back to the NCAA Final Four in 2000 losing to the Michigan State Spartans in the final Under Donovan the Gators won their first Southeastern Conference SEC tournament championship in 2005 beating the Kentucky Wildcats After repeating as SEC tournament champions in 2006 the Gators won their first basketball national championship defeating the UCLA Bruins 73 57 in the final game of the NCAA basketball tournament 227 The Gators beat the Arkansas Razorbacks 77 56 to win their third consecutive SEC tournament title in 2007 228 Florida defeated Ohio State 84 75 to again win the NCAA basketball tournament championship The Gators play their home games in the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C O Connell Center 229 The 10 133 seat multi purpose indoor arena was completed in 1980 and underwent massive renovations during the 2016 17 season The arena is popularly known as the O Dome Olympics Edit For a more comprehensive list see List of University of Florida Olympians Since 1968 163 Gator athletes and 13 Florida coaches have represented 37 countries in the Olympic Games winning 50 Olympic gold medals 28 silver medals and 30 bronze medals through the 2012 Summer Olympics 230 The list of University of Florida alumni who are Olympic gold medalists includes Brad Wilkerson baseball Delisha Milton Jones basketball Steve Mesler bobsled Heather Mitts and Abby Wambach soccer Theresa Andrews Catie Ball Tracy Caulkins Matt Cetlinski Conor Dwyer Geoff Gaberino Nicole Haislett Mike Heath David Larson Ryan Lochte Anthony Nesty Dara Torres Mary Wayte and Martin Zubero swimming and Kerron Clement Dennis Mitchell Frank Shorter Christian Taylor and Bernard Williams track and field Notable people EditMain category University of Florida people Notable alumni Edit For a more comprehensive list see List of University of Florida alumni As of August 2018 the University of Florida has 545 165 alumni 231 Over 57 000 are dues paying members of the University of Florida Alumni Association Florida alumni live in every state and more than 100 foreign countries 232 Florida alumni include two Nobel Prize winners nine NASA astronauts ten U S Senators forty two U S Representatives eight U S ambassadors eleven state governors eleven state Supreme Court justices and over fifty federal court judges Florida graduates have served as the executive leaders of such diverse institutions as the U S Marine Corps and the National Organization for Women Notable University of Florida alumni include nbsp Bob Graham nbsp Beverly Perdue nbsp Joe Scarborough nbsp Emmitt Smith nbsp Faye Dunaway nbsp Marshall Nirenberg nbsp Stephen Stills nbsp Carol Browner nbsp Kevin Ford nbsp Marco Rubio nbsp Erin Andrews nbsp Robert H GrubbsNotable faculty Edit For a more comprehensive list see List of University of Florida faculty and administrators Awards won by University of Florida faculty members include a Fields Medal and an Abel Prize in Mathematics Albert Einstein Medal Dirac Medal Sakurai Prize Frank Isakson Prize Oliver E Buckley Condensed Matter Prize James C McGroddy Prize for New Materials and a few Special Breakthrough Prizes for collaborators who made important contributions for the success LIGO s discovery of gravitational wave in Physics numerous Pulitzer Prizes and NASA s top award for research and the Smithsonian Institution s conservation award 233 There are more than sixty eminent scholar endowed faculty chairs and more than fifty faculty elections to the National Academy of Sciences Engineering or Arts and Sciences the Institute of Medicine or a counterpart in a foreign nation More than two dozen faculty are members of the National Academies of Science and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine or counterpart in a foreign nation 135 Notable University of Florida Administrators amp Faculty include nbsp John Thompson nbsp Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings nbsp Pramod Khargonekar nbsp Joseph Glover nbsp Manuel Vasquez nbsp Johannes Vieweg nbsp Carl Van Ness nbsp Harald von Boehmer nbsp William Murrill nbsp Jonathan F Earle nbsp Blake Ragsdale Van LeerSee also Edit nbsp Education portal nbsp Florida portalACCENT Speakers Bureau Eagle application server President s House Samuel Proctor Oral History Program University of Florida Cancer Hospital University of Florida forensic science distance education program University of Florida honorary degree recipients University of Florida presidents University of Florida PressExplanatory notes Edit The motto of UF was written by James Nesbitt Anderson first Dean of the College of Arts amp Sciences 2 This is the 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