Across the University of Florida, our 16 colleges, numerous institutes, and health care facilities embrace our shared mission of outreach and service to improve and enrich our community, nation, and the world. UF in the Community spotlights the impact of UF in our region.

Although UF has students and employees throughout the state, North Central Florida is home to much of our faculty and staff and to our 50,000+ students. Like all area residents, we want a vibrant, safe, healthy, and equitable place in which to live and thrive. Here are some of the ways in which we are enhancing our shared community.​

An audacious push to vaccinate 20,000 people in Alachua County a week for six weeks got off to a roaring start Monday when more than 5,200 University of Florida students and Alachua County residents received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

We invite you to join us for an Eye Opener Breakfast webinar with UF Athletic Director Scott Stricklin who will give us an update on Florida Gator athletics.

Hope to see you online!

Equal Access is a network of student-run free healthcare clinics which provide free care and other services to the medically underserved in Gainesville, FL. Health professional students from the University of Florida Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Public Health volunteer together under the supervision of Shands/UF faculty to assess and treat patients. The goal of the clinic is to provide physical and mental health services to those in need while enhancing the education of University of Florida students.

In 1988, a motivated group of medical students got the idea for the Equal Access Clinic. With the help of Dr. Watson, the senior associate dean for educational affairs, they worked out a plan to open a weekly clinic offering medical care to those without access.

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After tumbling in February, consumer sentiment among Floridians increased in March 3.7 points from February’s revised figure of 77.2. Similarly, national consumer sentiment surged 8.1 points.

All five components that make up the index increased.

Recently, the University of Florida developed and released another tasty blueberry variety.

When Patricio Muñoz developed the newest UF/IFAS variety, he wanted to name the fruit in honor of Alto Straughn, a longtime, strong supporter of UF’s blueberry breeding program. It’s called the ‘Sentinel.’

The annual Michael Gannon Lecture will commemorate the achievements and scholarship of Dr. Michael Gannon, remembered at the University of Florida as an outstanding teacher and scholar, an advocate for fairness and academic integrity, and nationally known writer on Florida history and the history of World War II.

Author Jon Meacham - writer, reviewer, and presidential biographer - will serve as the inaugural lecture speaker on the topic His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.

When a new mosquito species that is capable of transmitting disease arrives in Florida and shows signs it could survive across multiple urban and rural habitats, there is a potential for public health risk.

In a new study from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), scientists predict where in Florida environmental conditions may be suitable for Aedes scapularis to spread, now that it has invaded the Florida Peninsula.

Thanks to the University of Florida Shimberg Center for Housing Studies in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management and with support from JPMorgan Chase, Floridians have a new statewide web-based mapping app that identifies housing exposed to flood hazards due to storm events and sea level rise.