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IRHA has, previously, led a number of public service campaigns. In 1986, IRHA led the University of Florida's branch of a widely publicized statewide campaign to limit drunk driving and excessive alcohol consumption over the winter break of the academic year. [43] [44] IRHA led a largely successful voter registration drive in 1988. [45]
The Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology, or simply Malachowsky Hall, is a building on the University of Florida (UF) campus in Gainesville, Florida. Named after UF alumnus and Nvidia co-founder Chris Malachowsky , the building began construction in 2020 and opened in November 2023.
The George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida constitute one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The system includes eight of the nine libraries of the University of Florida and provides primary support to all academic programs except those served by the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center.
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. The university traces its origins to 1853 [13] and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906. [14]
The University of Florida was declared a Federal Depository Library in 1907, [1] and became a Regional Depository Library in 1962. Until 2004, the collection was housed in Library West at the University of Florida; [2] before moving to the first floor of the University of Florida Marston Science Library for several years. The collection is now ...
The university has over 900 buildings on the main campus (about 170 have classrooms). The University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2 ). The campus is home to many notable structures, including Century Tower , a 157-foot-tall (48 m) carillon tower in the center of the campus historic district .
The centerpiece of the journalism programs at UF is WUFT, which consists of both a WUFT (TV) Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television and WUFT-FM NPR public radio station. The commercial broadcasting radio station, WRUF , is also one of the oldest stations in the state.
The Baughman Center was the brainchild of Baughman, a university alumnus, who was the first president of New College of Florida [4] He was inspired by the picture of a building he found in a National Geographic magazine — perhaps the Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, California (1951) designed by Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright), or possibly one of the northwest Arkansas ...