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unusual facts about The University of Florida



Direct conversion

In the late nineties research was undertaken by Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, The University of Florida, Texas A&M University and General Atomics to use direct conversion to extract energy from fission reactions.


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Arizona Western College

The football program has produced Chuck Muncie, former NFL player with the San Diego Chargers, Leonard Thompson, who played 12 seasons with the Detroit Lions, Crawford Ker, who was an All-American at the University of Florida and played in the NFL for six seasons, Ricky Siglar, who played with several NFL teams over seven seasons, and Chris Jennings, who began the 2011 season with the New York Jets.

Baughman

The Baughman Center, two buildings (a chapel or pavilion and an administration building) on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States

Bernie Machen

In Fall 2010, Machen and Provost Joseph Glover were at the head of an effort to institute block tuition at the University of Florida.

Carl Van Ness

Prior to this position Van Ness served as the University of Florida archivist from 1996 thru 2006, and worked for the George A. Smathers Libraries.

Cécilia Rodhe

The 6'11" Joakim played college basketball for the 2006 NCAA national champions and repeat 2007 NCAA champions, the University of Florida Gators, and was drafted by the Chicago Bulls of the NBA as the 9th overall pick.

Craig Beardsley

He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in management in 1983, and was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great." Beardsley became a Wall Street trader, working for Prudential Securities in New York City.

Emergy

"Embodied energy" was abandoned altogether in 1986 when David Scienceman, a visiting scholar at the University of Florida from Australia, suggested the term “emergy” and "emjoule" or "emcalorie" as the unit of measure to distinguish emergy units from units of available energy.

Florida Gators baseball

The stadium is named for Florida alumni Alfred A. McKethan and Carl E. Perry, and is located on the University of Florida's Gainesville campus.

Jacquelyn Ford Morie

She next received a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Florida in 1984, studying with noted photographer Jerry Uelsmann.

Judith C. Russell

She is the first Dean of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, with the position elevated to the Dean rank from a directorship to reflect the increased importance of the libraries and information for the University of Florida.

Ken Kerslake

Kerslake’s colleagues at the University of Florida included photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Todd Walker, painters Hiram Williams and Lennie Kesl and sculptor Jack Nickelson.

Kerron Clement

On March 12, 2005, representing the University of Florida, he broke the indoor world record for the 400-meter sprint at the NCAA indoor championships in Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas with a time of 44.57 seconds.

Langdon Bosarge

He has worked clinically at some of the nation's top institutions, including Shands Teaching Hospital at the University of Florida, Bellevue and Saint Vincents in New York City, and Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles.

Lassie Goodbread-Black

Lassie Moore Goodbread was an American farmer and educator who, in 1925, became the first woman to enroll at the University of Florida, in the College of Agriculture.

Lawrence Rockwood

Between his court martial and the US Supreme Court denying his petition for a Writ of Certiorari in 2001, he pursued his PhD in diplomatic history at the University of Florida and worked as a human rights activists.

Michael Good

Michael L. Good, 9th Dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine

Michael Moseley

Michael E. Moseley, American anthropologist at the University of Florida

Mitch Ivey

Despite his stellar three-year record of SEC championships and top-three NCAA national performances, the University of Florida Athletic Association released him in October 1993 following an episode of the ESPN television show Outside the Lines which recounted Ivey's history of romantic involvement with several of his previous swimmers before he became a coach at the University of Florida, and made allegations of sexual harassment against him.

René Lemarchand

Now Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Florida, Lemarchand has worked as a consultant in governance for the USAID in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and as governance and democracy adviser to USAID/Ghana.

Robert de Beaugrande

He served as professor of English in the University of Florida from 1978 to 1991, of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna from 1991 to 1997, Professor of English Language at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Professor of English and English Linguistics at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and later as visiting professor in several universities in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Royce Goodbread

After graduating from high school, Goodbread attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Tom Sebring and coach Charlie Bachman's Florida Gators football teams from 1927 to 1929.

Will Hill

During his 3 seasons at the University of Florida, his play was overshadowed by the superior contributions of teammates Major Wright and All-American Ahmad Black.

WRUF-FM

Rich Fields, the former announcer for CBS's The Price Is Right and Gameshow Marathon, was a former WRUF-FM afternoon drive disc-jockey and music director, as well as a graduate of the University of Florida.

Zach Azzanni

He was also the wide receivers coach at the University of Florida under former Florida coach, Urban Meyer.