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Cox Communications has announced that its employees will award up to $30,000 to public and private schools in the Southeast Region through the Cox Charities Innovation in Education grants. Applicants will be notified of their funding status before the close of the 2016-2017 school year. Grant recipients will receive payments at the start of the...

On a Wednesday morning, just after 8AM, the rooster crows on I Am Country Radio, prompting genial show host Ward Scott to announce “It’s Ag Wednesday, sponsored by the Alachua County Farm Bureau.” For the next hour, listeners to 101.7 and 104.1 FM might hear about bees, forestry, the success of the Alachua County Youth...

The University of Florida Levin College of Law climbed seven spots in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s best law schools, placing at No. 41 overall. This rise is the largest year-to-year increase in over 20 years and is the second largest improvement of any law school ranked in the...

Assistant PRCA Director elected President of Florida Recreation and Park Association Foundation Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department (PRCA) Assistant Director Michelle Park, C.P.R.P. has been elected as President of the Florida Recreation and Park Association (FRPA) Foundation to serve on the Foundation Board through 2018. Michelle Park has been with the City of Gainesville...

Erica Chatman has received the Planner of the Year Award from the Central Florida chapter of the Society for Government Meeting Professionals (SGMP). Chatman has been a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) since 2013, and is the first PRCA employee to achieve this certification. The CMP designation is recognized globally in 55 countries as the badge...

Juliette Gordon Low believed in the power and potential of every girl. Through her vision, Girl Scouts was created to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. Four of the six honorees of this year’s Women Who Make A Difference award were personally involved in scouting at some...

A University of Florida College of Nursing researcher and her team have received grant funding for a five-year study to evaluate whether dignity therapy led by a nurse or a chaplain for elderly patients facing a cancer diagnosis and receiving palliative care could improve outcomes, including the patients’ spiritual well-being. “Today’s health care system tends...

The Aspiring Leader Academy (ALA) is a six-month program designed to equip Alachua County Public School teachers who are interested in pursuing leadership roles with the tools and training needed to excel in school leadership in Alachua County. The ALA program is currently in its first year and is the first phase of the district’s...

When Vincent Cambrea was named Director of the Florida School of Massage in 2014, he had already been an instructor there for 12 years and had opened his own gym. However, tasked with taking the school to a level of success that it hadn’t experienced before, he quickly realized that this was an entirely new...

UF Health Shands Hospital has surpassed all pediatric heart transplant programs in the nation with zero deaths over a two and a half year period, according to a report released in January by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), a database that analyzes and evaluates organ transplantation programs across the nation. According to SRTR’s...