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Four institutions – the East Florida Seminary, the University of Florida at Lake City (formerly Florida Agricultural College), the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School in St. Petersburg, and the South Florida Military College in Bartow – were consolidated to form the new University of the State of Florida, a school for white males. [3]
The University of Florida Campus Historic District is a historic district on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.The district, bounded by West University Avenue, Southwest 13th Street, Stadium Road and Gale Lemerand Drive, encompasses approximately 650 acres (2.6 km 2) and contains 11 listed buildings plus contributing properties.
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 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]
Murphree Area is an historic residence hall complex on the northern edge of the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida. The complex is adjacent to University Avenue, one of the major public roads that serve the university and define its boundaries. It was the university's first residence area and the last one to become co-ed.
The University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies is one of the largest centers in the United States for the study of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. Specialized degrees are offered in a wide range of subjects including the anthropology, history, sociology, politics, geography, and languages of the region. [1]
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 ...
In the 1950s, the University of Florida began enrolling women, and in 1955, the first woman graduated from the college with a master's degree in chemical engineering. In 1957, nuclear engineering was established as a department, and in 1959, the university's 10,000-watt nuclear training reactor became Florida's first critical reactor.