Orange & Blue Nuggets

• Citrus Research Center
  UF serves as the home of the world’s largest citrus research center and UF/IFAS has 13 Research and Education Centers, with cooperative extension offices in all 67 Florida counties.
  http://www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/
• Honors Residential College
  UF’s Honors Residential College at Hume Hall is the first honors residential college in the United States designed and built specifically for honors students.
  http://www.housing.ufl.edu/housing/Facilities_TourPages/Hume.htm
• Kiplinger
  UF placed second on the 2006 Kiplinger Personal Finance list of best values among public colleges and universities.
  http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/tools/colleges_upd/
• Astronauts
  Two UF grads are currently in the Astronaut program.
• Honors Program
  Nearly 2,000 freshmen and sophomores participate in the honors program, which offers 90 to 100 courses per semester.
  http://www.honors.ufl.edu/courses.html
• Biotechnology
  UF faculty have created some 50 biotechnology companies from faculty research programs.
  http://agbiotech.ifas.ufl.edu/usa.html
• American Bar Association Presidents
  In the past four decades, more presidents of the American Bar Association have come from the UF Levin College of Law than any other U.S. law school.
  http://www.law.ufl.edu/leadership/commencement.shtml
• National Academies
  More than two dozen faculty are members of the National Academies of Science and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine or a counterpart in a foreign nation.
  http://www.aa.ufl.edu/accolades/
• 2004 Fulbright Awards
  UF ranked in the top 20 among AAU public universities for the number of Fulbright Awards in 2004.
  http://www.ir.ufl.edu/nat_rankings/faculty/fulbright_old.pdf
• Freshman Retention Rate
  UF’s freshman retention rate of 94 percent is among the highest in the United States.
  http://www.ir.ufl.edu/factbook/degree.htm