Science and the Human Bond
Graduates: Today, you earn the highest and most eminent degree in the Western tradition of higher education. It is a tradition that dates back 10 centuries. Your degree represents the mastery of your...
View ArticleBuilding Your Communities
Thank you, Dean McCauley, for that kind introduction and for inviting me to address the Class of 2014. Thank you, parents and family members, for standing behind these young women and men so that they...
View ArticleInnovation Square Roads Opening
City and county elected officials, CRA members, university leaders and staff, members of the innovation community: Welcome! It is great to be with you. When they first told me that they wanted me to...
View ArticleMy Hopes for These Flags
As we prepare to raise the flags in our Flag Garden, I think of the airmen and women of the U.S. Air Force who … at this very moment … are beating back the extremist and savage forces of ISIS in Iraq....
View ArticleState of the University
Click here for State of the University 2014 Power Point. Click here for State of the University 2014 Video. Faculty, staff, members of the university community: Welcome back! It’s great to be with...
View ArticleRemarks to LGBTQ Welcome Assembly
Let me start by thanking the Pride Student Union for asking me to speak this evening. I am really pleased to have this opportunity to greet you … meet as many of you as I can … and especially, welcome...
View ArticleRemarks to Black Student Assembly
Let me begin by thanking the Black Student Union for inviting me to speak this evening. Getting to be with students is my favorite part of my job, and it’s always great to start the year by joining...
View ArticleRemarks to Hispanic Student Assembly
Let me start by thanking the organizers of tonight’s Hispanic-Latino Student Assembly for inviting me to speak this evening. I am thrilled to have this opportunity! This is my final year as...
View ArticleAlways Trust Your Cape
I want to start by thanking the Women’s Student Association for inviting me to speak. It’s an honor, and I’ve been thinking about how I can be worthy of this invitation. It so happens that I spent...
View ArticleCreating Something New, Something Unheard Of
Having worked toward this day for most of my presidency, I share the joy in the air! Nearly thirty years ago, UF took a major leap forward when we became a member of the Association of American...
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