Everything about The University Of Florida totally explained
The
University of Florida (
Florida or
UF) is a
public land-grant, sea grant major
research university located on a campus in
Gainesville, Florida, in the
United States. The university is one of 62 elected members of the
Association of American Universities. The University of Florida was founded in 1853, and is a
Public Ivy.
The University of Florida is the
second-largest university in the
United States, with 51,913 students as of fall 2007. It is the largest comprehensive university in the state of Florida and has one of the largest budgets in the United States nearly $4.377 billion per year. UF is home to 17 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. As of the 2007-2008 academic year, UF ranked twelfth among all institutions in the number of new
National Merit Scholar students enrolled. Researchers at the University of Florida developed the famous
sports drink Gatorade.
The University of Florida offers many graduate programs—including
engineering,
law and
medicine—on one contiguous site, and coordinates 123
master's degree programs and 76
doctoral degree programs in 87 schools and departments.
The University of Florida
NCAA Division I athletic teams, referred to as the
Florida Gators, compete in
Southeastern Conference.
Alligators named
Albert and Alberta are the official mascots. Throughout the school's history, the University of Florida's athletic program has earned 27 total National Championships.
History
The institutional history dates back to 1851, when the
Florida Legislature set about creating two seminaries, one west of the
Suwanee River, and the other to the east. Some trace UF's history back to 1836, when the
United States Congress authorized an establishment of a "University of Florida." Many institutions were founded, before the current University of Florida was established.
In 1853, UF's official date of founding, Gilbert Kingsbury was the first man to take advantage of the legislation passed in 1851 and established the
East Florida Seminary (EFS) in
Ocala, Florida. Before coming to Florida, Kingsbury taught at Thetford Academy in
New Hampshire. This was the first state-supported institution of higher learning in Florida and set the foundation for the University of Florida. James Henry Roper, an educator from
North Carolina and a
state senator from
Alachua County, built a school, the
Gainesville Academy, around the same time. In 1866, after EFS had closed due to the
American Civil War, Roper offered his land and school to the state of Florida in exchange for the relocation of East Florida Seminary to Gainesville. His offer was accepted and the current site of the University of Florida was built in its place.
Epworth Hall, the main building of East Florida Seminary, still stands in downtown Gainesville, but isn't on UF's campus today.
Another precursor to the University of Florida was the
Florida Agricultural College (FAC) established at
Lake City in 1884 by Jordan Probst. Florida Agricultural College became the first land-grant college in the state and a powerful force. In 1902, FAC briefly changed to the University of Florida.
The 1905 the Buckman Act consolidated the colleges of the state. The member of the Florida Legislature who wrote the act,
Henry Holland Buckman, is the namesake of
Buckman Hall, one of UF's earliest buildings. The Buckman Act provided for the creation of the
State University System of Florida and the
Florida Board of Control to govern the affairs of the system. It also called for the merger of several institutions into the new
University of the State of Florida. The institutions apart of this were the
University of Florida at
Lake City (formerly Florida Agricultural College), the East Florida Seminary in Gainesville, the
St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School at
St. Petersburg, and the
South Florida Military College at
Bartow.
In 1909,
Albert Murphree was appointed president of UF and attempted to organize the colleges of the university and increased the enrollment of the school substantially. He is the only man with a statue on the campus.
In 1924, the Florida Legislature ruled that women of a "mature age" (at least 21 years old) and who have completed 60 semester hours from a "reputable educational institution" be allowed to enroll during regular semesters at UF,
in programs that were unavailable at Florida State College for Women. Before this, only the summer semester was coeducational,
to accommodate teachers.
Lassie Goodbread-Black from Lake City became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida, at the College of Agriculture in 1925.
John J. Tigert became president in 1928. Disgusted by the under-the-table payments being made by universities to athletes, he established the grant-in-aid
athletic scholarship program in the early 1930s, which was the gensis of the modern athletic scholarship plan currently used by the NCAA.
In 1946, there was a rapid increase in male students wanting to attend the University of Florida due to the return of
World War II veterans who could go to college under the
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill). Though UF attempted to accommodate the new demand, it could not. Faced with a waiting list of nearly 2,200 men, Tigert went to Governor
Millard Caldwell for help. The
Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida' (TBUF) was opened to serve men on the campus of Florida State College for Women. By the end of the 1946-1947 school year, 954 men were enrolled at TBUF, which was governed by the University of Florida in Gainesville. The following semester, the state decided to create a new co-educational
Florida State University, which absorbed the Florida State College for Women with the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida. This sequence of events also opened up UF to women undergraduate students for the first time, as the University of Florida officially became co-educational. Admission of African-American students also began in 1958.
Shands Hospital first opened in 1958 along with the medical school. Rapid campus expansion began in the 1950s and continues to the present day.
In 1985, Florida became a member of the
Association of American Universities (AAU), a higher-education organization composed of 62 public and private institutions in North America. UF is one of only 17 public, land-grant universities that belongs to the association.
The University of Florida has continued to rise in the
U.S. News & World Report college and university rankings. In 2001, UF was labeled a
Public Ivy and was 2nd in
Kiplinger's 2006 "Best Buys of Education" (behind the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
U.S. News currently ranks UF as the 49th overall best university; the state of Florida and UF alumni are actively making a concerted effort to become a Top-10 overall public.
Academics
Demographics
University of Florida students, numbering 50,912 in Fall 2006, come from more than 100 countries, and all 50 states. The ratio of women to men is 53:47. Of the 50,912 students, about 29 percent are graduate and professional students, and professional degree programs including architecture, dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine. About 26 percent of the student body represents minority populations with 7.9 percent African Americans, 11.2 percent Hispanics, and 7 percent Asian-Americans or Pacific Islanders.
In a 2007 survey conducted by the
Institute of International Education the University of Florida ranked 17th overall in the
United States for the largest total number of international students. The statistics showed that UF hosted a total of 3,921 students from overseas in the 2006-07 academic year. This was more than any other university in Florida.
The University of Florida is ranked second overall in the
United States for the total number of bachelor's degrees awarded to African Americans, and third overall for Hispanics. UF ranks fifth overall in total number of doctoral degrees awarded to African Americans, and second overall for Hispanics, and third overall in total number of professional degrees awarded to African Americans, and first overall for Hispanics. The 2007
Academic Ranking of World Universities list assessed the University of Florida as 51st among world universities and 38th in the United States based on overall research output and faculty awards. In the "2007 National College Ranking",
Washington Monthly ranked the University of Florida 26th overall. For 2007,
Newsweek ranked UF one of the "Top 25 Hottest Schools". According to the world Webometrics rankings, University of Florida ranks 22nd best all around.
Another ranking by Research Center for Chinese Science Evaluation of
Wuhan University ranks UF 37th in the world. The ranking is based on Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which provides data of journal article publication counts and citation frequencies in over 11,000 journals around the world in 22 research fields.
UF ranked 4th in The Scientist magazine's "Best Places to Work in Academia" (2005); 2nd among all universities in Kiplinger's magazine "Top 100 Public Universities" (2007). UF was also ranked the best overall in top values amongst all the public flagship universities by USA Today (2006). UF admitted 1,049 International Baccalaureate students for the 2004-2005 academic year - more than any other university in the world. The freshmen retention rate of 94 percent is among the highest in the U.S.
Admissions
Fall freshman statistics
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2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
2005 |
| Applicants | 27,865 |
24,040 |
21,710 |
21,792
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| Admits | 10,289 |
10,294 |
10,474 |
12,056
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| % Admitted | 36.92 |
42.82 |
48.24 |
55.32
|
This table doesn't account deferred
applications or other unique situations.
The acceptance rate at the University of Florida has trended downward, the application process has become increasely competitive. The university has a freshmen retention rate of 93%. For the first-year students that enrolled at UF in 2008, the median SAT score is 1240 - 1410, and the Median GPA was 4.1 - 4.4. UF's class of 2007 yield rate was at 57%, and looks to be very selective for coming years.
In the words of
Herald Tribune reporter Anna Scott, "Three years after university officials capped the size of the freshman class at about 6,600, competition at UF is at an all-time high, forcing admissions officers to choose among the brightest and leaving behind an unprecedented number of disappointed families." Of those who applied to be part of this fall's incoming freshman class, an estimated 42 percent were accepted -- the lowest acceptance rate in the history of the state's public schools. Selectivity at the state's top university is expected to heighten as UF continues to work toward becoming one of the nation's Top 10 public universities.
Ending Early Admissions
In 2007, the University of Florida joined the
University of Virginia,
Harvard University, the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and
Princeton University when they announced that they were discontinuing their
Early Decision admissions in an effort to help foster economic diversity in their student bodies. These universities assert that
Early Decision admissions forces students to accept an offer of admission before evaluating the
financial aid offers from multiple universities. The University of Florida's single application deadline will be set for early November.
Honors Program
The University of Florida has a nationally-recognized
honors program. This highly selective program is designed to offer academically gifted undergraduates the advantages of an
Ivy League quality education in the setting of a large metropolitan university. After gaining acceptance to the University of Florida, students must apply separately to the Honors Program and demonstrate significant academic achievement to be accepted. There are over 100 courses offered exclusively to students in this program.
Entering freshman in the program must have a weighted GPA of at least 4.0 and an SAT score of 1400 or an ACT score of 33. The Honors Program also offers housing for freshman in the Honors Residential College at Hume Hall. The Honors Program also offers special
scholarships,
internships, research,
study abroad opportunities.
Colleges and academic divisions
The University of Florida is divided into 16 colleges and more than 100 research, service and education centers, bureaus and institutes, offering over 100 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate degrees.
These colleges include:
Research
| Graduate and Professional Student Enrollment |
| Fall 2006 |
15,357 |
| Fall 2005 |
14,594 |
| Fall 2004 |
13,882 |
| Fall 2003 |
13,482 |
| Fall 2002 |
12,902 |
| Fall 2001 |
12,348 |
| Fall 2000 |
11,953 |
The University of Florida, the state’s largest university and one of the biggest research universities in the nation, contributes nearly $6 billion annually to Florida’s economy and is responsible for nearly 75,000 jobs. Research includes diverse areas such as health-care and citrus production (the world's largest citrus research center). In 2002, UF began leading six other universities under a $15 million NASA grant to work on a variety of space-related research during a five-year period. UF has a partnership with
Spain that helped to create the
world's largest telescope in the Canary Islands (the total cost was $93 million).
In January of 2008 the University of Florida,
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, and
Shands at the University of Florida formed a partnership to develop world-class programs in cancer care, research and prevention. The partnership, will extend Moffitt’s innovative model of comprehensive patient care to UF and Shands cancer programs.
Libraries
The University of Florida's libraries is the largest most extensive information resource system in the state. In total, the University of Florida has ten libraries, and over 4 million volumes of books and journals (pre-renovations) and 7 million microfilms.
Academic Honesty
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In 1995 the University of Florida Student Body revamped the previous Honor Code and voluntarily committed itself to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. When students enroll at the University of Florida, they commit themselves to the standard drafted and enacted by students.
Campus
Historic sites
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 . Two buildings outside the historic district, the
old WRUF radio station (now the university police station) and the old
P. K. Yonge Laboratory School (now Norman Hall), are also listed on the historic register. The buildings listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architectural or historic significance are:
Student life
Career development and internships
The
Career Resource Center at the
Reitz Student Union helps by providing a comprehensive, state-of-the-art facility. The Center provides services for students and alumni to assist them to achieve career development, career experiences, and employment opportunities.
Greek life
Sorority and
Fraternity Affairs (formerly known as Greek Life) at the University of Florida is separated into four divisions:
Interfraternity Council (IFC),
National Panhellenic Conference (NPC),
Multicultural Greek Council (MGC), and the
National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC). The
Order of Omega has a chapter at the university.
The Interfraternity Council (IFC) comprises 26 fraternities. The Panhellenic Council is made up of 16 sororities. The Multicultural Greek Council consists of 11 cultural organizations (
Latino,
Asian,
South Asian, etc.), five fraternities and six sororities. The National Pan-Hellenic Council comprises nine historically-black organizations, five fraternities and four sororities). There are now also two recognized fraternal organizations for Christian students.
Housing
UF provides over 9,200 students with housing in residence halls and compelxes on the eastern and western sides of campus. Facilities vary in the cost of rent and privacy. Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities. The university also provides housing to a number of graduate students.
Recreation
Many recreational activities available for students include indoor and outdoor sports, outdoor courts and playing fields on campus, in the
Stephen C. O'Connell Center,
University Golf Course,
Plaza of the Americas, the Student Recreation and Fitness Center, the
Southwest Recreation Center, and the
Florida Gymnasium for indoor sports. Florida offers intramural and club sports ranging from archery to weightlifting. Near the campus are many recreational lakes and rivers, including university-owned
Lake Alice. In addition, student have access to the
Reitz Student Union which is equipped with a
bowling alley,
pool tables,
arcades, and numerous other activities.
The campus also contains open spaces, small ponds, picnic areas, shady nooks and an 81 acre wildlife sanctuary that provide opportunities to enjoy Florida's year-round sunshine activity life.
Lastly, the University of Florida has more than seven hundred organizations and clubs for students to join. They range from cultural and athletic to subjects pertaining to philanthropy. If students wish they can create their own registered
student organization if the current interest or concern isn't addressed by the previously established entities.
Student government
The
University of Florida Student Government is the advocacy group for the students who attend the University of Florida, representing the university's 50,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. It is one of the largest Student Governments within the
USA. The student government currently operates on a yearly $13.29 million dollar budget. The motto is "Building the Pride in Every Gator."
It was officially established in 1909 and consists of an executive, judicial, and unicameral legislative branch. The executive branch consists of a Student Body President, Student Body Vice President, Student Body Treasurer, 9 agencies, and 41 cabinets. The Student Body President, Student Body Vice President, and Student Body Treasurer are elected in annual elections held in the spring. The legislative branch is composed of 94 senators, who serve one year terms. 47 senate seats are elected each spring semester and the remaining 47 are elected each fall semester. The senators elect a Senate President and Senate President Pro Tempore twice a year - once in the fall, and once in the spring - to lead the Student Senate. The judicial branch has three functional components: the Student Supreme Court (headed by a Chief Justice), the Student Honor Court (headed by the Honor Court Chancellor elected each spring), and the Student Traffic Court (headed by a Chief Justice).
Alma Mater
The
Alma Mater for the University of Florida was composed by Milton Yeats in 1925.
| The First Verse to the University of Florida Alma Mater |
| "Florida, our Alma Mater… |
| Thy glorious name we praise… |
| All thy loyal sons and daughters… |
| A joyous song shall raise… |
| Where a palm and pine are blowing… |
| Where southern seas are flowing… |
| Shine forth thy noble Gothic walls… |
| Thy lovely vineclad halls… |
Neath the Orange and Blue victorious
our love shall never fail… |
| There's no other name so glorious… |
| All hail, Florida, hail." |
| Second Verse to the University of Florida Alma Mater |
| "In the name of Alma Mater... |
| We take each comrades hand... |
| True to thee and to each other... |
| Through out our eden land... |
| Old school we love so dearly... |
| May god be ever near thee... |
| To guide us by the shining light... |
| Of honor, truth, and might... |
| Hear out alma mater calling... |
| Let courage never fail... |
| For before her all are falling... |
| All hail, Florida, hail." |
Athletics
The school's sports teams are called the Florida Gators. They compete in the Eastern Division of the
Southeastern Conference of the
NCAA's
Division I. In football, Florida, as well as all other SEC schools, competes in the
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; still often referred to by its former designation of Division I-A). The Gators have a number of rivalries, most notably the in-state
Florida State University, and the conference competitors
University of Georgia and
University of Tennessee. Florida dedicates about $44 million per year to its sports teams and facilities. In 2004-05, Florida won its 14th consecutive SEC All-Sports Trophy. The Florida athletic program has ranked among the nation's top ten in each of the last 23 years and in the top five for 12 of the past 17. Florida is one of only two schools that has ranked among the top 10 athletic programs for the last 23 years.
Florida has won a total of 21 team national championships, 17 of which are NCAA championships. Florida is the second Division I FBS school, after
Michigan State University, to win multiple national championships in each of the two most popular NCAA sports: football (in 1996 and 2006 both championships were unanimous) and men's basketball (in 2006, and again in 2007). With a 41-14 win over #1 Ohio State in the 2006 BCS National Championship, held January 8, 2007, in Glendale, Arizona, Florida became the only Division I school in NCAA history to hold football and basketball titles at the same time. Florida was 12-1 in the regular season, and won the SEC Championship on the road to the BCS Championship Game.
In 2002-03, UF placed a record 193 student-athletes on the SEC Academic Honor Roll. The 2002-03 season marked the sixth consecutive year UF placed 100 or more student-athletes on the SEC Honor Roll.
Football
The
Florida Gator football team first took the field in 1906. Since then, the Gators have played in 34 bowl games, won seven
Southeastern Conference titles, produced 135 All-Americans coming into the 2006 season, 35 NFL first round draft choices and three Heisman Trophy winners.
William A. Shands, a future member of the
Florida Senate, and the name-sake of
Shands Hospital in Gainesville, played for the 1908 team. The Gators earned nation wide recognition in the 1920s with several fantastic finishes and wins. Florida originally competed in the
Southern Conference, and in 1928, won the Football National Scoring Title with a 8-1 record. in 1933, President John J. Tigert joined with several other Southern Conference presidents to form the new
Southeastern Conference (SEC), which Tigert would eventually lead as commissioner. The 1930s and 1940's were not nearly as kind to the Gators. UF did have quite a few stars including All-American, Fergie Ferguson, in 1941, who would die from wounds suffered in
World War II.
Bob Woodruff entered UF into a kinder era, taking UF back to respectability in the 1950s. Florida's first post-season game was a 14-13 victory over
Tulsa in the 1952
Gator Bowl, played in
Jacksonville, Fla.. UF ended up going 6-4 against the
University of Georgia in the decade, and 8 winning seasons. Coach Ray Graves brought UF unprecedented success in the 1960s. The Gators had 9 winning seasons and went to 5 bowl games, racking up the winningest decade in Florida history until the 1990s. The first major bowl appearance by UF was a 20-18 loss to the Missouri Tigers in the 1965
Sugar Bowl.
Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Steve Spurrier led the Gators to a 9-2 record in 1966 and a 27-12 victory over Georgia Tech in that year's
Orange Bowl. Super Sophs John Reaves and Carlos Alvarez led UF to a 9-2 record and a Gator Bowl win in 1969.
In January 2002, Spurrier left the Gators to coach the NFL's
Washington Redskins, after having won six SEC titles in his 11 year tenure. He was replaced by
Ron Zook who, in October 2004, was fired in the middle of his third season but remained coach for the rest of the regular season. In December 2004,
Urban Meyer, previously the coach of the
Utah Utes, replaced Zook as the head football coach.
Traditional football rivals include the Hurricanes of the
University of Miami, the Bulldogs of the
University of Georgia in the annual
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Jacksonville, Florida, and since the early 1990s, the Volunteers of the
University of Tennessee. The
University of South Carolina has also become a "rival" since the hiring of Steve Spurrier as their head coach. The University of Florida and the Florida State University play for the Governor's Cup and began their series in 1958, nearly ten years after FSU became a coeducational university. The Gators currently lead the matchup 30-19-2 including three consecutive wins over the past three seasons.
The Gators' home stadium is
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field, one of the largest and loudest football stadiums in the country. Florida Field was opened in 1930 and has been expanded several times to now hold over 90,000. The stadium is popularly known as "The Swamp," and was given the nickname by
Steve Spurrier in the early 1990s, who quipped that "only the Gators get out alive." The Sporting News named Florida as the top college crowd in the nation and gave Florida Field the honor of the nation's loudest stadium. In 2007,
Sports Illustrated ranked Ben Hill Griffin Stadium as the third best college venue in the nation, and was the first overall for college football.
Celebrating 100 years of Florida football, the Gators finished the 2006 regular season with a record of 13-1, capturing the
SEC Championship with a 38-28 victory over Arkansas at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. Florida moved to second place in the
Bowl Championship Series rankings and convincingly defeated the number one ranked
Ohio State University Buckeyes 41-14 for the
BCS National Championship on January 8, 2007, in
Glendale, Arizona. Starting quarterback
Chris Leak was awarded the honor of being the game's Most Valuable Player. It was the Gators' second consensus national championship, and made UF the first school ever to hold the Division I men's basketball title and the BCS football title at the same time.
Basketball
The UF men's
basketball squad has also come to prominence in recent years. They went to the
Final Four in 1994 under coach
Lon Kruger. Since 1996, they've been coached by
Billy Donovan, who is credited with bringing national acclaim to the program. Donovan returned the Gators to the Final Four in 2000, and into the NCAA Championship game, where they lost to
Michigan State. They won their first Southeastern Conference Tournament title in 2005, beating the
University of Kentucky, their primary basketball rival. After repeating as SEC tournament champs in 2006, the Gators went on to win the first basketball National Championship in the history of the state of Florida, defeating the
UCLA Bruins 73-57 on April 3, 2006, at the
RCA Dome in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Joakim Noah was named MVP of the tournament.
The men's basketball team plays home games in the
Stephen C. O'Connell Center, popularly nicknamed the "O-Dome". The O'Connell Center was also nicknamed the "House of Horrors" in 1999 by ESPN Magazine, due to its reputation as one of the most intimidating venues in the country for opposing teams. This 12,000-seat multi-purpose arena is located directly adjacent to the
"The Swamp", Florida's football stadium, and has served in its capacity since opening in 1980. The student section of the O-Dome has been dubbed the "Rowdy Reptiles".
The Florida Gators routed the Arkansas Razorbacks 77-56 on March 11, 2007 to win the SEC tournament title for the third consecutive year. Florida joined Kentucky and Alabama as the only schools to have won three consecutive SEC Tournaments.
Florida defeated Ohio State 84-75 on April 2, 2007 at the
Georgia Dome in
Atlanta, Georgia to win the national championship for the second consecutive year; the first team to repeat since
Duke in 1991-1992. The team became the first in history to win back-to-back championships with the same returning starting lineup. It is also worth noting that the 2007 football and men's basketball championships both came at the expense of the same school,
Ohio State, and also defeated the
Arkansas Razorbacks for the
SEC championship in both football and basketball in the same academic year, neither of which had happened before. They also became the first school to hold both the football and basketball championships at the same time (defeating Ohio State in 2007 & defeating UCLA in 2006) and in the same school year.
Notable alumni
The University of Florida has more than 340,000 alumni.
Among the individuals who have attended or graduated from the University of Florida are actress
Faye Dunaway,
Price is Right announcer
Rich Fields, author
Michael Connelly, nobel prize winners
Marshall Nirenberg and
Robert Grubbs, pilot
Paul Tibbets, governor & senator
Bob Graham,reporter
Stephanie Abrams, musician
Mel Tillis, poet
Geri Doran, director
Jonathan Demme, comedian
Darrell Hammond, columnist
Kiki Carter, congressman
Adam Putnam, actor
Stephen Root, sportscaster
Jesse Palmer, senator & governor
Lawton Chiles, TV personality
Bob Vila, novelist
Carl Hiaasen, judge
Harold Sebring, administrator
Carol Browner, inventor
John Atanasoff, astronaut & senator
Bill Nelson and the daughter of
Dave Thomas,
Wendy Thomas, the namesake of the food-chain
Wendy's also attended the University of Florida.
The University of Florida has also been home to over one hundred and twenty-five
Olympians throughout the years, nearly one hundred and fifty active and retired
NFL football players and three
Heisman Trophy winners, around thirty
MLB baseball players, thirty
NBA basketball players, and over forty
PGA Tour &
LPGA golfers. Some famous University of Florida athletes include the all-time leading rusher
Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame football player
Jack Youngblood, the tennis sensation
Lisa Raymond, the golfer
Tommy Aaron, the basketball star
Joakim Noah, the baseball player
David Eckstein, soccer players
Abby Wambach and
Heather Mitts, the swimmer
Dara Torres, and the legendary coach
Steve Spurrier.
Image:Bobgraham.jpg|Bob Graham
Image:Berverly perdue nc politician.jpg|Beverly Perdue
Image:Joe congress.jpg|Joe Scarborough
Image:EmmittSmith2007.jpg|Emmitt Smith
Image:Faye Dunaway(CannesPhotoCall).jpg|Faye Dunaway
Image:rhgsmall.jpg|Robert Grubbs
Image:Darrell_Hammond.jpg|Darrell Hammond
Image:ErinAndrews.jpg|Erin Andrews
Image:Paul W Tibbets USAF bio photo.jpg|Paul Tibbets
Image:Diaz.gif|Nils J. Diaz
Notable faculty
Individual awards won by UF faculty include a
Fields Medal, numerous
Pulitzer Prizes, and
NASA's top award for research and Smithsonian Institution's conservation award. There are currently more than 60 Eminent Scholar chairs, and nearly 60 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.
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