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Back and neck care for residents of Gainesville, the Southeast and beyond takes a significant step forward with the launch of the UF Health Comprehensive Spine Center. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the center unites spine, neck and back pain experts from several UF College of Medicine departments under one roof, including neurosurgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, physical...

The Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention has announced the Sweet 16 for the 9th Annual Cade Prize. The Cade Prize serves to identify, recognize, and celebrate inventive minds and innovation in the state of Florida. Since its launch in 2010, the Cade Prize competition has drawn applications from hundreds of creative thinkers and cutting-edge...

I would like to share a true story about one my students and how our English Language Arts (ELA) eLearning system greatly improved her quality of life. Little 8-year-old Samantha has severe health related problems and was struggling to just stay in school. She had been in and out of the hospital several times for...

As a lifelong learner, I have always loved school and embraced new opportunities to increase my knowledge on a variety of subjects. When I was young, my mother was a preschool teacher and she and my father read to my sister and me daily. Unfortunately, the opportunities I had growing up and the support I...

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...