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Fire Station #1, located at 525 South Main Street has moved across SW 5th Avenue from its previous home. Built to meet the best response time, the facility has state of the art computer dispatching and station alerting equipment, and the tried-and-true brass fire pole that quickly delivers firefighters from the second floor dorms or...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced that public radio station WUFT-FM is one of five finalists for the prestigious 2018 NAB Marconi Radio Awards in the non-commercial station-of-the-year category. WUFT-FM, operated by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is the local NPR affiliate in the Gainesville-Ocala, Florida market, serving a...

As any Harry Potter fan knows, his invisibility cloak enabled Harry to wander around Hogwarts undetected, which was a very cool thing. Invisibility in a classroom, however, can be problematic, causing underrepresented students to slip between the cracks. Imagine you come from a family where college and career are never part of the dialogue; you...

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Jasmine Jones about education and business. Jasmine is the Assistant Director of Admissions at Saint Leo University, Gainesville Educational Center. In our conversation she speaks candidly about how being a non-traditional student has prepared her to serve and mentor current and prospective students. Her experiences and compassion...

The University of Florida received a record $837.6 million in research funding in fiscal year 2018, surpassing the previous record set in fiscal 2016 by $113.6 million, or nearly 16 percent. This significant increase was largely due to increased funding from the federal government, reaching a record high of $560.6 million, a nearly 23 percent...

Santa Fe College is leading its 27 peers in the Florida College System. With high graduation rates, a steadily increasing retention rate, and a job placement rate over 96 percent, SF earned the state’s highest “gold” performance rating and will receive nearly four million dollars of performance-based funding for the 2018-2019 academic year. “There is...

Serving more than 27,000 students in 48 schools and centers, Alachua County Public Schools play a large part in the Gainesville and surrounding communities. To recognize this importance September was declared Public School Awareness Month in Alachua County. It was created “to remind every person and business that it is the public’s duty to protect...

Eagle Construction of VA, LLC has provided $250,000 to the University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning for a fellowship that will provide $50,000 every year for five years.   Eagle Construction is sponsoring this fellowship to support research in the field of advanced construction technologies, conducted largely by the Center for Advanced...

Beginning Fall 2018, the Santa Fe College Information Technology Education program will begin a new Associate Degree in Information Security. This Associate degree will be complemented with a new Security specialization track in our Information Systems Technology BAS program. Santa Fe College two years Vocational Associate Degrees are designed to train the local workforce to...

Gainesville-based, leather products company, Dacasso has announced that it recently provided the leather conference pads for the historic Singapore Summit between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. “We were very proud to be asked to outfit the meeting table with our Conference Table Pads and we’re honored to participate in such an...