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The City of Gainesville’s Regional Transit System (RTS) has been awarded $3 million in federal funding to enhance its service and fleet. The most recent is a $1 million dollar Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Low or No-Emission (called “Low-No”) grant to augment the transit fleet with electric vehicles. Gainesville was one of three cities in...

With hospitals providing continuing quality improvements and advancements in patient care, medical technology, new product developments, and burgeoning high technology in general; a healthcare area that is on the front lines of highly specialized advanced care: Executive Health. The University of Florida’s Douglas Williams Executive Health Program (UF Executive Health) delivers comprehensive and personalized diagnostics...

43North, the $5 million startup competition, has announced Gainesville-based company Immersed Games as one of the 18 global finalists. The company will compete in Buffalo, NY for a $1 million grand prize in early October. Immersed Games helps teachers deliver hands-on, Next Generation Science learning, with a video game. The game, Tyto Online, builds science...

University of Florida Health officials and Alachua County and city of Gainesville emergency first responders announced the launch of a smartphone app that alerts citizens to a nearby cardiac emergency and empowers them to help, which officials say could double the survival rate from cardiac arrest in Gainesville and the surrounding area. PulsePoint Respond is...

UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech, the leading biotechnology incubator at the University of Florida, announced recently that resident company Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc., has closed on a $30 million investment round. Lacerta is a clinical-stage gene therapy company using a constellation of proprietary adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector technologies to develop treatments for central nervous system...

On a scale of one to 10, how happy are your employees? If you scored them on the high end of the spectrum, would they agree with you? And if you have a boss, exactly how happy are you on a daily basis? Happiness at work—loosely defined as a feeling of contentment, purpose and satisfaction—is...

As Q4 2018 approaches, you realize this year has gone by at a blistering speed. You may have had several public relations campaigns that you completed, and there might still be plans for another one before the year is out. The thing is, soon you will be getting that email from the CFO asking for...

Mo’s Garage Salon Experience is the newest addition to the Grove Street neighborhood as a full service salon offering hair and skin services to the greater Gainesville area. To complete the image of the business, Monica Albert has commissioned artist Shawn Maschino to create a mural at 910 NW 4th Street. The former Sister’s Restaurant...

University of Florida Health leaders have cut the ribbon on a new $36 million, 72,000-square-foot facility that will consolidate numerous practices around Gainesville in one location to better serve an estimated 70,000 patients each year. UF Health Physicians practices and services within the new building include the primary care services of internal medicine and family...

Imagine a restaurant that serves close to 8,000 breakfast and more than 16,000 lunch meals per day with the pickiest of eaters whose nutritional needs must be carefully balanced. While a restaurant like that may not exist, that is the job of the Alachua County Public Schools Food and Nutrition Services where countywide approximately 265...