Ytori Magazine: Fall 2017

THE MAGAZINE FOR THE UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA COLLEGE of LIBERAL ARTS and SCIENCES | FALL 2017 • VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2

Features

The Forest for the Trees

Civic Champion

Transforming Tunisia

Question

The Legend in the Loam

Ask the Expert — Rachel Dorman

Ask the Archivist — What is the History of the F Book?

Global Issues — The Square Root of Poverty

Extracurricular — Russell Anderson

Discover

Politically Active, Intercollegiate, and Nonpartisan

Vodou and Valency

Pure Imagination

Faculty Profile — Keith Choe, Biology

Student Profile — Chris Bell

Connect

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Ytori Fall 2016

With his iPhone, UF President Kent Fuchs captured a panoramic view of Spring 2016, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ commencement, which was held in the Swamp due to the renovation of the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.

Ytori Spring 2017

Each day, thousands of students are treated with the music of lyrical bells. The lovely sound comes from Century Tower, which was built in 1953 and features a 58,000-pound carillon that comprises 61 bells with a ve-octave range. The carillon is one of only four in Florida and 200 in North America.

Ytori Fall 2017

Chenxing Dong, a doctoral student in astronomy, photographed the full solar eclipse on Aug. 21 every five minutes to create this progression over Century Tower

Ytori Spring 2018

In March, the Century Tower was lit green to commemorate Mental Health Awarenesss Week. Student ambassadors from UF AWARE initiated the weeklong project.